Table 2
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by province or territory and urban or rural area, 2011 to 2021


Table 2
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by province or territory and urban or rural area, 2011 to 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory and urban or rural area (appearing as row headers), 2021, 2020 and 2011 to 2020, calculated using number, rate, percent change in rate, 2021 versus 2020 , percent change in rate, 2021 versus 2011 to 2020 average, average number and average rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory and urban or rural area 2021 2020 2011 to 2020
number rateTable 2 Note 1 percent change in rate, 2021 versus 2020 percent change in rate, 2021 versus 2011 to 2020 average number rateTable 2 Note 1 average number average rateTable 2 Note 2
Canada 8,047 27.4 -5.5 10.4 8,464 29.0 6,841 24.9
Urban 6,193 24.8 -7.5 3.8 6,654 26.9 5,557 23.9
Rural South 952 26.7 -11.3 28.7 1,066 30.1 719 20.8
Rural North 902 107.1 21.6 60.1 744 88.0 565 66.9
Newfoundland and Labrador 78 15.0 14.9 12.3 68 13.0 70 13.3
Urban 30 10.2 -14.3 9.9 35 11.9 25 9.3
Rural South 32 16.1 34.0 11.4 24 12.1 33 14.5
Rural North 16 57.6 77.4 33.3 9 32.5 12 43.2
Prince Edward Island 12 7.3 -38.0 -36.7 19 11.8 17 11.5
Urban 3 2.8 -75.4 -71.2 12 11.4 9 9.8
Rural South 9 15.7 25.7 6.7 7 12.5 8 14.7
Nova Scotia 198 20.0 -10.1 -2.2 218 22.3 194 20.5
Urban 133 20.3 -18.5 -9.0 161 24.9 137 22.3
Rural South 65 19.5 13.4 13.9 57 17.2 57 17.1
New BrunswickTable 2 Note 3 200 27.9 -2.3 33.2 203 28.5 146 20.9
Urban 102 23.2 -2.9 22.8 104 23.9 79 18.9
Rural South 98 35.2 -1.6 46.6 99 35.7 66 24.0
Ontario 3,016 20.6 -15.2 -0.7 3,538 24.3 2,850 20.7
Urban 2,816 21.2 -16.1 -2.6 3,342 25.3 2,705 21.7
Rural South 131 11.9 -9.6 24.0 143 13.2 101 9.6
Rural North 69 26.9 29.8 56.5 53 20.7 44 17.2
Manitoba 773 57.8 14.2 33.6 677 50.6 550 43.3
Urban 512 53.8 7.1 24.2 477 50.2 394 43.3
Rural South 114 37.9 24.5 70.6 91 30.4 61 22.2
Rural North 147 174.1 40.8 58.2 109 123.6 95 110.1
Saskatchewan 953 82.5 8.3 50.4 880 76.2 605 54.9
Urban 513 68.2 15.8 47.4 443 58.9 324 46.3
Rural South 254 70.0 1.9 53.4 249 68.7 166 45.6
Rural North 186 467.5 -1.6 57.6 188 475.2 115 296.6
Alberta 1,708 38.4 -3.2 15.6 1,755 39.6 1,376 33.2
Urban 1,236 33.3 -1.1 10.2 1,241 33.7 1,032 30.2
Rural South 174 35.5 -36.4 3.6 274 55.9 163 34.3
Rural North 298 119.7 24.7 67.9 240 96.0 181 71.3
British Columbia 946 18.1 -4.3 -6.9 978 19.0 939 19.5
Urban 819 17.6 -0.6 -10.0 815 17.7 839 19.5
Rural South 75 17.0 -39.2 8.4 122 28.0 65 15.7
Rural North 52 44.7 25.9 43.9 41 35.5 36 31.1
Yukon 22 51.2 -17.0 27.2 26 61.6 16 40.2
Urban 10 27.9 -24.6 15.3 13 36.9 8 24.2
Rural North 12 168.9 -9.3 44.6 13 186.1 8 116.8
Northwest Territories 73 160.4 7.0 129.1 68 149.9 31 70.0
Urban 19 81.7 70.8 325.4 11 47.8 4 19.2
Rural North 54 242.7 -4.7 107.3 57 254.7 27 117.1
Nunavut 68 172.6 98.7 33.6 34 86.8 47 129.1
Note 1

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1 population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note 2

Average rates are calculated per 100,000 population and are based on the total count of victims over the time period divided by the sum of the populations for each year.

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Note 3

Excludes data for the Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns.

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Note: Firearm-related crime is defined as victims of violent crime reported by police in incidents where a firearm was present. Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Rural police services are those where the majority of the population lives outside of a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA). Urban police services are those where the majority of the population lives within a CMA or CA. See "Data sources and concepts" for further information. Rural North includes all rural police services in the Territories or in the Provincial North. Provincial North encompasses the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Rural South refers to rural police services in the southern regions of these provinces as well as Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
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