Firearms and violent crime in Canada, 2016
Table 5
Victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by type of firearm and by census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 5
Victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by type of firearm and by census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported firearm-related violent crime. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Handgun, Rifle or shotgun, Other firearm, Firearm-like weapon or unknown type of firearm and Total firearm-related violent crime, calculated using number, percent, rate and percent of total violent crime units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA) Handgun Rifle or shotgun Other firearmTable 5 Note 1 Firearm-like weapon or unknown type of firearmTable 5 Note 2 Total firearm-related violent crime
number percent rateTable 5 Note 3 number percent rateTable 5 Note 3 number percent rateTable 5 Note 3 number percent rateTable 5 Note 3 number percent of total violent crimeTable 5 Note 4 rateTable 5 Note 3
Regina 38 25.9 15.3 47 32.0 19.0 16 10.9 6.5 46 31.3 18.6 147 5.7 59.4
Winnipeg 244 61.9 30.7 47 11.9 5.9 16 4.1 2.0 87 22.1 10.9 394 4.1 49.5
Moncton 48 73.8 30.5 6 9.2 3.8 0 0.0 0.0 11 16.9 7.0 65 3.2 41.3
Edmonton 325 61.1 23.4 105 19.7 7.6 39 7.3 2.8 63 11.8 4.5 532 3.8 38.3
TorontoTable 5 Note 5 1,548 84.9 27.6 79 4.3 1.4 40 2.2 0.7 157 8.6 2.8 1,824 4.6 32.5
HamiltonTable 5 Note 6 133 75.1 23.7 3 1.7 0.5 5 2.8 0.9 36 20.3 6.4 177 3.6 31.5
Saskatoon 50 51.0 15.7 20 20.4 6.3 2 2.0 0.6 26 26.5 8.2 98 2.9 30.8
Windsor 45 64.3 14.7 12 17.1 3.9 2 2.9 0.7 11 15.7 3.6 70 3.1 22.9
Calgary 209 64.5 14.2 45 13.9 3.1 12 3.7 0.8 58 17.9 3.9 324 3.2 22.0
OttawaTable 5 Note 7 172 79.6 17.0 11 5.1 1.1 4 1.9 0.4 29 13.4 2.9 216 4.0 21.3
Kelowna 25 62.5 12.7 10 25.0 5.1 2 5.0 1.0 3 7.5 1.5 40 2.4 20.3
Vancouver 378 74.7 14.8 31 6.1 1.2 18 3.6 0.7 79 15.6 3.1 506 2.6 19.8
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 85 79.4 15.5 2 1.9 0.4 2 1.9 0.4 18 16.8 3.3 107 2.4 19.5
Brantford 21 80.8 15.1 4 15.4 2.9 0 0.0 0.0 1 3.8 0.7 26 1.8 18.7
Abbotsford–Mission 20 64.5 10.7 4 12.9 2.1 0 0.0 0.0 7 22.6 3.8 31 2.1 16.6
London 58 70.7 11.3 6 7.3 1.2 3 3.7 0.6 15 18.3 2.9 82 2.3 15.9
Peterborough 13 68.4 10.5 2 10.5 1.6 0 0.0 0.0 4 21.1 3.2 19 2.0 15.4
St. Catharines–Niagara 48 69.6 10.6 11 15.9 2.4 2 2.9 0.4 8 11.6 1.8 69 3.1 15.2
Halifax 38 62.3 8.9 6 9.8 1.4 3 4.9 0.7 14 23.0 3.3 61 2.0 14.3
Barrie 23 79.3 10.6 3 10.3 1.4 0 0.0 0.0 3 10.3 1.4 29 2.3 13.4
Saint John 9 64.3 7.0 2 14.3 1.6 1 7.1 0.8 2 14.3 1.6 14 1.1 10.9
St. John's 5 25.0 2.4 4 20.0 1.9 1 5.0 0.5 10 50.0 4.8 20 1.2 9.6
Thunder Bay 4 36.4 3.3 5 45.5 4.1 0 0.0 0.0 2 18.2 1.7 11 0.6 9.1
Guelph 3 27.3 2.3 2 18.2 1.5 2 18.2 1.5 4 36.4 3.0 11 1.4 8.3
Victoria 15 62.5 4.0 3 12.5 0.8 3 12.5 0.8 3 12.5 0.8 24 0.7 6.5
Kingston 7 70.0 4.2 0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 3 30.0 1.8 10 1.0 6.0
Greater Sudbury 2 22.2 1.2 2 22.2 1.2 1 11.1 0.6 4 44.4 2.4 9 0.8 5.4
Total census metropolitan areasTable 5 Note 8 3,647 72.3 18.5 486 9.6 2.5 178 3.5 0.9 731 14.5 3.7 5,042 3.4 25.5
Non-census metropolitan areas 615 29.8 7.6 759 36.8 9.4 118 5.7 1.5 570 27.6 7.0 2,062 1.9 25.4
Total 4,262 60.0 15.3 1,245 17.5 4.5 296 4.2 1.1 1,301 18.3 4.7 7,104 2.7 25.5
Note 1

Includes fully-automatic firearms and sawed-off rifles and/or shotguns.

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Note 2

Includes all weapons that do not meet the Criminal Code definition of a firearm and that are capable of propelling any object through a barrel by means of gunpowder, CO2 (compressed carbon dioxide), or pumped air, such as flare guns, pellet guns, or starter's pistols. Also includes all firearm-related violent crime where the specific type of firearm was unknown.

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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

Percent calculation excludes incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown.

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Note 5

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 6

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

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Note 7

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

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Note 8

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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