Firearms and violent crime in Canada, 2016
Table 3
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of weapon present and by census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 3
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of weapon present and by census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, No weapon, Unknown and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA) Firearm Other weaponTable 3 Note 1 No weaponTable 3 Note 2 Unknown Total
number percent rateTable 3 Note 3 number percent rateTable 3 Note 3 number percent rateTable 3 Note 3 number percent number rateTable 3 Note 3
Regina 147 5.7 59 696 27.2 281 1,716 67.1 693 63 Note ...: not applicable 2,622 1,059
Winnipeg 394 4.1 50 2,730 28.1 343 6,602 67.9 830 149 Note ...: not applicable 9,875 1,241
Moncton 65 3.2 41 325 15.9 207 1,648 80.9 1,048 23 Note ...: not applicable 2,061 1,310
Edmonton 532 3.8 38 3,157 22.3 228 10,483 74.0 756 302 Note ...: not applicable 14,474 1,043
TorontoTable 3 Note 4 1,824 4.6 33 7,673 19.4 137 30,155 76.0 538 861 Note ...: not applicable 40,513 723
HamiltonTable 3 Note 5 177 3.6 32 856 17.5 153 3,859 78.9 688 20 Note ...: not applicable 4,912 876
Saskatoon 98 2.9 31 847 25.2 266 2,410 71.8 757 43 Note ...: not applicable 3,398 1,067
Windsor 70 3.1 23 440 19.2 144 1,781 77.7 584 5 Note ...: not applicable 2,296 752
Calgary 324 3.2 22 2,300 22.5 156 7,584 74.3 514 554 Note ...: not applicable 10,762 730
OttawaTable 3 Note 6 216 4.0 21 975 17.8 96 4,276 78.2 422 85 Note ...: not applicable 5,552 548
Kelowna 40 2.4 20 318 18.8 161 1,330 78.8 675 12 Note ...: not applicable 1,700 863
Vancouver 506 2.6 20 4,352 22.1 171 14,865 75.4 583 310 Note ...: not applicable 20,033 785
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 107 2.4 19 787 17.5 143 3,597 80.1 655 88 Note ...: not applicable 4,579 834
Brantford 26 1.8 19 279 19.1 201 1,158 79.2 833 5 Note ...: not applicable 1,468 1,056
Abbotsford–Mission 31 2.1 17 309 21.4 166 1,107 76.5 594 16 Note ...: not applicable 1,463 785
London 82 2.3 16 681 19.3 132 2,769 78.4 537 112 Note ...: not applicable 3,644 707
Peterborough 19 2.0 15 138 14.6 112 791 83.4 640 5 Note ...: not applicable 953 771
St. Catharines–Niagara 69 3.1 15 406 18.2 89 1,757 78.7 387 12 Note ...: not applicable 2,244 494
Halifax 61 2.0 14 411 13.3 96 2,627 84.8 617 14 Note ...: not applicable 3,113 731
Barrie 29 2.3 13 182 14.7 84 1,029 83.0 475 43 Note ...: not applicable 1,283 592
Saint John 14 1.1 11 128 10.2 100 1,117 88.7 873 43 Note ...: not applicable 1,302 1,018
St. John's 20 1.2 10 281 16.9 135 1,360 81.9 655 56 Note ...: not applicable 1,717 827
Thunder Bay 11 0.6 9 248 14.5 206 1,446 84.8 1,200 12 Note ...: not applicable 1,717 1,425
Guelph 11 1.4 8 113 14.1 85 676 84.5 511 21 Note ...: not applicable 821 620
Victoria 24 0.7 6 459 14.2 124 2,740 85.0 738 112 Note ...: not applicable 3,335 899
Kingston 10 1.0 6 160 16.6 95 796 82.4 474 13 Note ...: not applicable 979 584
Greater Sudbury 9 0.8 5 216 18.7 131 931 80.5 564 6 Note ...: not applicable 1,162 704
Total census metropolitan areasTable 3 Note 7 5,042 3.4 26 30,407 20.2 154 114,831 76.4 581 3,048 Note ...: not applicable 153,328 776
Non-census metropolitan areas 2,062 1.9 25 18,197 16.8 225 88,049 81.3 1,086 3,919 Note ...: not applicable 112,227 1,385
Total 7,104 2.7 25 48,604 18.8 174 202,880 78.5 728 6,967 Note ...: not applicable 265,555 953
... not applicable
Note 1

Includes all other weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire.

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Note 2

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

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 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as a small part of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service falls outside of the boundaries of a CMA.

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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. Weapon is based on the most serious weapon present in the incident. Percentage calculations exclude cases where the weapon is unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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