Firearms and violent crime in Canada, 2016
Appendix table 1
Changes in number of victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by census metropolitan area, 2009, 2013, and 2016

Appendix table 1
Changes in police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by census metropolitan area, 2009, 2013, and 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Changes in police-reported firearm-related violent crime. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), 2016, Percent change in rate from 2013 to 2016, Difference in number of victims from 2013 to 2016, Percent change in rate from 2009 to 2016 and Difference in number of victims from 2009 to 2016, calculated using number of victims, rate, percent and number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA) 2016 Percent change in rate from 2013 to 2016 Difference in number of victims from 2013 to 2016 Percent change in rate from 2009 to 2016 Difference in number of victims from 2009 to 2016
number of victims rateAppendix table Note 1 percent number percent number
St. John's 20 9.6 -30 -8 15 4
Halifax 61 14.3 -44 -43 -67 -109
Moncton 65 41.3 119 38 154 43
Saint John 14 10.9 -24 -7 -45 -15
OttawaAppendix table Note 2 216 21.3 31 57 -37 -100
Kingston 10 6.0 -30 -4 -63 -16
Peterborough 19 15.4 -28 -7 32 5
TorontoAppendix table Note 3 1,824 32.5 83 869 -20 -232
HamiltonAppendix table Note 4 177 31.5 40 54 -12 -13
St. Catharines–Niagara 69 15.2 4 4 -44 -50
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 107 19.5 28 26 19 23
Brantford 26 18.7 -33 -12 17 5
Guelph 11 8.3 -29 -4 28 3
London 82 15.9 33 22 -33 -33
Windsor 70 22.9 35 19 -8 -5
Barrie 21 9.7 -25 -6 2 8
Greater Sudbury 9 5.4 -55 -11 -71 -22
Thunder Bay 11 9.1 -20 -3 -22 -3
Winnipeg 394 49.5 63 151 27 99
Regina 147 59.4 131 87 117 89
Saskatoon 98 30.8 40 33 -15 3
Calgary 324 22.0 0 23 -38 -110
Edmonton 532 38.3 43 187 47 226
Kelowna 40 20.3 31 11 -22 2
Abbotsford–Mission 31 16.6 -18 -5 -55 -32
Vancouver 506 19.8 -14 -55 -41 -267
Victoria 24 6.5 -25 -7 -60 -33
Note 1

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 2

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 3

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto census metropolitan area.

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Note 4

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton census metropolitan area.

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Note: A census metropolitan area (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, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries. Excludes Quebec due to the large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Percentage calculations exclude cases where the weapon is unknown. In order to facilitate comparisons over time, a specific Trend Database is maintained. This database contains only those police services who have consistently responded to the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey over the entire period of the database (2009 to 2016). As a result, there are some slight differences between the numbers from the trend database, used for making comparisons over time, and from the data for the individual year 2016, used when discussing characteristics of police-reported violent crime in Canada. Using the trend database, police services who have consistently reported to the UCR Survey each year over the seven year period reported 7,056 victims of firearm-related violent crime in 2016. Using only the 2016 data, police services reported 7,104 victims of firearm-related crime. This is the reason for the differences in the numbers of firearm-related victims in this table when compared to other tables and charts.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
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