Table 2
Police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by region, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 2
Police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by region, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Region (appearing as row headers), Mass casualty events, Violent crime4, Total, Level 11, Level 22 and Level 33, calculated using number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number and average annual rate5 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Region Mass casualty events Violent crime Table 2 Note 4
Total Level 1 Table 2 Note 1 Level 2 Table 2 Note 2 Level 3 Table 2 Note 3
number average annual rate Table 2 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 2 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 2 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 2 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 2 Note 5
Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to zero

Note x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Note 1

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained minor physical injury.

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Note 2

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury and one to three victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 3

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 4

Includes mass casualty events. To allow for comparison with mass casualty events, incidents of violent crime are limited to those with victim records.

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Note 5

This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2010 to 2024.

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Note 6

Excludes a small proportion (0.4%) of mass casualty events that occurred in both urban and rural areas. As such, the total for Canada does not equal the sum of urban and rural areas.

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Note 7

Urban police services serve an area where the majority of the population lives within a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA). A CMA consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. A CMA or CMA may be served by more than one police service. Rural areas are all areas outside of CMAs and CAs.

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Note: Mass casualty events refer to violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury or died. For information about level of injury, see Text box 1. Excludes criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which, as of 2009, includes data for 99% of the population in Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
Provinces 5,395 1.0 4,540 0.8 x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act 5,076,294 927
Atlantic 226 0.6 202 0.6 x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act 373,424 1,051
Newfoundland and Labrador 57 0.7 52 0.7 5 0.06 0 0.000 89,572 1,127
Prince Edward Island 12 0.5 9 0.4 3 0.13 0 0.000 19,042 821
Nova Scotia 93 0.6 83 0.6 7 0.05 3 0.019 145,242 997
New Brunswick 64 0.6 58 0.5 x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act 119,568 1,119
Quebec 638 0.5 530 0.4 81 0.07 27 0.022 1,131,599 904
Ontario 1,624 0.8 1,343 0.6 204 0.10 77 0.036 1,528,859 721
Manitoba 667 3.4 553 2.8 93 0.48 21 0.108 321,326 1,646
Saskatchewan 599 3.6 519 3.1 73 0.44 7 0.042 299,455 1,790
Alberta 877 1.4 739 1.2 111 0.18 27 0.043 693,026 1,086
British Columbia 764 1.0 654 0.9 94 0.13 16 0.021 728,605 978
Territories 80 4.4 68 3.7 x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act 118,571 6,457
Canada Table 2 Note 6 5,475 1.0 4,608 0.8 686 0.13 181 0.033 5,194,865 946
Urban areas Table 2 Note 7 4,186 0.9 3,502 0.8 529 0.12 155 0.033 4,037,140 868
Rural areas Table 2 Note 7 1,267 1.5 1,094 1.3 151 0.18 22 0.026 1,157,724 1,373
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