Table 5
Victims of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by gender and accused–victim relationship, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 5
Victims of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by gender and accused–victim relationship, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Victim gender and accused–victim relationship (appearing as row headers), Mass casualty events, Violent crime4, Total, Level 11, Level 22 and Level 33, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim gender and accused–victim relationship Mass casualty events Violent crime Table 5 Note 4
Total Level 1 Table 5 Note 1 Level 2 Table 5 Note 2 Level 3 Table 5 Note 3
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note ...

not applicable

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

Includes current and former spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), parents (biological, step, adoptive and foster), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws).

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Note 6

Includes current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners and dating partners (i.e., boyfriends, girlfriends), and other intimate partners (e.g., one-night stands).

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Note 7

Includes persons in a position of trust or authority and reverse authority figures (e.g., student-to-teacher and patient-to-doctor).

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Note 8

Includes relationships where the workplace or business is the primary source of contact, and relationships based on illegal activity.

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Note 9

The categories of family member and intimate partner are not mutually exclusive as they both include spousal relationships. As such, the total for accused–victim relationship does not equal the sum of relationship categories.

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Note 10

Includes victims whose gender was coded as unknown.

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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. The option for police to code victims as non-binary in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. Given that small counts of victims identified as “non-binary” may exist, the UCR Survey aggregate data available to the public have been recoded to assign these counts to either “men and boys” or “women and girls,” in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Victims identified as non-binary have been assigned to either men and boys or women and girls based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender. Percent calculations exclude unknown. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. 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).
Men and boys  
Family member Table 5 Note 5 1,542 9.4 1,326 10.0 155 6.5 61 8.4 539,953 19.5
Intimate partner Table 5 Note 6 261 1.6 218 1.6 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 328,352 11.9
Friend 495 3.0 401 3.0 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 110,079 4.0
Neighbour or roommate 324 2.0 258 1.9 41 1.7 25 3.5 125,547 4.5
Authority figure Table 5 Note 7 999 6.1 911 6.8 71 3.0 17 2.4 132,297 4.8
Business or criminal relationship Table 5 Note 8 400 2.4 301 2.3 74 3.1 25 3.5 148,292 5.4
Casual acquaintance 3,330 20.3 2,658 20.0 545 23.0 127 17.6 580,491 21.0
Stranger 9,150 55.8 7,318 55.0 1,381 58.2 451 62.5 1,003,425 36.3
Unknown 12 ... not applicable 1 ... not applicable 1 ... not applicable 10 ... not applicable 2,849 ... not applicable
Total Table 5 Note 9 16,405 100.0 13,301 100.0 2,372 100.0 732 100.0 2,770,407 100.0
Women and girls  
Family member Table 5 Note 5 1,955 19.4 1,706 19.5 176 18.2 73 19.5 1,197,232 39.2
Intimate partner Table 5 Note 6 961 9.5 824 9.4 107 11.1 30 8.0 1,230,348 40.3
Friend 331 3.3 291 3.3 34 3.5 6 1.6 124,967 4.1
Neighbour or roommate 226 2.2 189 2.2 19 2.0 18 4.8 89,589 2.9
Authority figure Table 5 Note 7 491 4.9 450 5.1 36 3.7 5 1.3 81,345 2.7
Business or criminal relationship Table 5 Note 8 193 1.9 159 1.8 18 1.9 16 4.3 93,914 3.1
Casual acquaintance 2,240 22.2 1,978 22.6 203 21.0 59 15.8 486,532 15.9
Stranger 4,092 40.6 3,490 39.9 418 43.2 184 49.2 474,568 15.5
Unknown 17 ... not applicable 5 ... not applicable 0 ... not applicable 12 ... not applicable 1,414 ... not applicable
Total Table 5 Note 9 10,106 100.0 8,753 100.0 967 100.0 386 100.0 3,054,061 100.0
TotalTable 5 Note 10  
Family member Table 5 Note 5 3,499 13.2 3,034 13.7 331 9.9 134 12.2 1,741,433 29.8
Intimate partner Table 5 Note 6 1,224 4.6 1,044 4.7 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 1,560,872 26.7
Friend 826 3.1 692 3.1 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 235,802 4.0
Neighbour or roommate 550 2.1 447 2.0 60 1.8 43 3.9 215,603 3.7
Authority figure Table 5 Note 7 1,521 5.7 1,387 6.3 111 3.3 23 2.1 217,741 3.7
Business or criminal relationship Table 5 Note 8 593 2.2 460 2.1 92 2.7 41 3.7 243,036 4.2
Casual acquaintance 5,579 21.0 4,644 21.0 749 22.4 186 16.9 1,070,483 18.3
Stranger 13,321 50.1 10,883 49.1 1,802 53.9 636 57.9 1,489,451 25.5
Unknown 29 ... not applicable 6 ... not applicable 1 ... not applicable 22 ... not applicable 4,340 ... not applicable
Total Table 5 Note 9 26,634 100.0 22,167 100.0 3,347 100.0 1,120 100.0 5,851,093 100.0
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