Table 6
Police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by location and clearance status, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 6
Police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by location and clearance status, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Location and clearance status (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).
Location and clearance status Mass casualty events Violent crime Table 6 Note 4
Total Level 1 Table 6 Note 1 Level 2 Table 6 Note 2 Level 3 Table 6 Note 3
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note ...

not applicable

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 single homes, dwelling units (e.g., apartment units, condo units), commercial dwelling units (e.g., hotel rooms), nursing homes, retirement homes, community group homes and private property structures (e.g., garden sheds, detached garages).

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Note 6

Includes parking lots, streets, roads, highways and other open areas (e.g., playgrounds, parks, fields), transit buses and bus shelters, subways and subway stations, and other forms of public transportation and connected facilities.

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Note 7

Includes car dealerships, banks and other financial institutions, convenience stores, gas stations and other commercial locations.

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Note 8

Includes schools during supervised (i.e., occurring during or just outside of regular school hours or during a school sanctioned extracurricular activity) and unsupervised (i.e., outside of regular school hours and outside of a school sanctioned extracurricular activity) activity, as well as universities and colleges (excluding residence buildings, public roadways and parking lots).

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Note 9

Includes construction sites, religious institutions, hospitals, pharmacies, correctional institutions, homeless shelters and missions, halfway houses and young offender group homes, and other non-commercial or corporate places.

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Note 10

Includes the laying or recommendation of charges.

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Note 11

Includes, for example, the victim or complainant requesting that no further action be taken where an accused person was identified, reasons beyond departmental control and departmental discretion.

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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. 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).
Location  
Residential location Table 6 Note 5 2,483 45.6 2,087 45.6 318 46.8 78 43.6 2,992,179 58.4
Open area Table 6 Note 6 1,630 30.0 1,341 29.3 230 33.8 59 33.0 1,095,685 21.4
Commercial location 798 14.7 668 14.6 96 14.1 34 19.0 571,660 11.2
Restaurant or bar 337 6.2 269 5.9 56 8.2 12 6.7 146,650 2.9
Other commercial location Table 6 Note 7 461 8.5 399 8.7 40 5.9 22 12.3 425,010 8.3
School Table 6 Note 8 178 3.3 168 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 183,064 3.6
Other location Table 6 Note 9 351 6.5 317 6.9 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 279,852 5.5
Unknown 35 ... not applicable 27 ... not applicable 6 ... not applicable 2 ... not applicable 72,425 ... not applicable
Total 5,475 100.0 4,608 100.0 686 100.0 181 100.0 5,194,865 100.0
Clearance status  
Not cleared 1,286 23.5 1,138 24.7 115 16.8 33 18.2 1,743,279 33.6
Cleared 4,189 76.5 3,470 75.3 571 83.2 148 81.8 3,451,586 66.4
Cleared by charge Table 6 Note 10 3,767 68.8 3,087 67.0 547 79.7 133 73.5 2,391,779 46.0
Cleared otherwise Table 6 Note 11 422 7.7 383 8.3 24 3.5 15 8.3 1,059,807 20.4
Total 5,475 100.0 4,608 100.0 686 100.0 181 100.0 5,194,865 100.0
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