Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area
Belleville, Ontario

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Belleville 93%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%

proportion of people who reported being satisfied with their personal safety from crime in 2014

* significantly different from Belleville census agglomeration (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Belleville 1,137, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

Two-year change in police-reported crime rate (2016 to 2018)

Belleville +4%, Ontario +12%, Canada, +4%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Belleville, Ontario

Belleville, Ontario

Belleville was home to 109,932 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 82 residents per square kilometre. Over one in four (27%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 5.2% of Belleville residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, nearly twice the proportion in Ontario (2.8%) but similar to Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented less than one in ten (7.3%) residents, far lower than Ontario (29.1%) and Canada (21.9%). A small proportion (7.5%) of immigrants in Belleville were recent immigrants (since 2011), lower than in Ontario (12.3%) and Canada (16.1%). The proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Belleville (4.1%) was much lower than in Ontario (29.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, over half (56%) of Belleville residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, about one in three (31%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and one in eight (13%) had completed neither.

In 2016, the unemployment rate in Belleville (6.7%) was slightly lower than in Ontario (7.4%) and Canada (7.7%). Households in Belleville earned a median after-tax annual income of $51,380 in 2017, somewhat lower than in Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was slightly lower in Belleville (14%) than in Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.4 persons per household in Belleville in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Most (69%) households in Belleville owned their homes, on par with Ontario (70%) and Canada (68%). When a household spends 30% or more of its income on shelter costs, it is considered to live in unaffordable housing: this was the case for one in four (25%) Belleville households, slightly lower than in Ontario (28%) but close to Canada (24%). A small proportion (7.0%) of occupied private dwellings in Belleville were in need of major repairs, marginally higher than Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). About one-sixth (17%) of Belleville families were lone-parent families, on par with Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated 211 homeless individuals living in Belleville.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, just over two in five (42%) Belleville residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, similar to Ontario residents (40%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Two-thirds (68%) of Belleville residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, significantly higher than the proportion in Ontario (51%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- A smaller proportion of women who lived in Belleville felt very safe when walking alone after dark compared with men (60% versus 76%), though this difference was not significant unlike in Ontario and Canada’s provinces.
One in four (24%^E) Belleville residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, similar to Ontario (21%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
One-quarter (26%^E) of Belleville residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, on par with Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
Over a six-year period (2009 to 2014), 16%^E of Belleville residents experienced discrimination, similar to Ontario (15%) and Canada’s provinces (13%).
Three in ten (30%^E) Belleville residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, significantly higher than in Ontario (20%) but not significantly different from Canada’s provinces (21%).
Nearly two in three (63%) Belleville residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, significantly lower than in Ontario (76%) but not significantly different from Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (90%) of Belleville residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, which was similar to the proportion in Ontario (91%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Self-reported experiences of victimization

In 2018, one in five (21%) Belleville residents aged 15 and older experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, which was not significantly different than Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (23%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Belleville police reported an overall crime rate of 4,980 incidents per 100,000 population, 21% higher than in Ontario (4,113) but 9% lower than in Canada (5,488).
Between 2016 and 2018, police-reported crime increased by 4% in Belleville, a smaller increase than in Ontario (+12%) but on par with Canada (+4%).
The severity of crime in Belleville decreased by 20% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to a decrease in other violent Criminal Code violations and theft of $5,000 or under (non-shoplifting). Between 2016 and 2018, the severity of crime in Belleville increased by 11%, compared with a 13% increase in Ontario and a 4% increase in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 2,596 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Belleville in 2018, close to Ontario (2,621) but 22% lower than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 1,137 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Belleville, 27% higher than Ontario (899) but close to Canada overall (1,143).
- In Belleville, three in five (60%) victims of violent crime were female, a higher proportion than Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2016 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Belleville increased by 3%, a far smaller increase than in Ontario (+12%) and half the increase in Canada (+6%).
- The severity of violent crime in Belleville increased by 21%, which was larger than the increase in Ontario (+14%) and Canada (+7%).
Violent crime against girls and women in Belleville was relatively unchanged between 2016 and 2018, as was violent crime against boys and men (an increase of less than 1% for both).

Hate crime

There were no hate crimes reported by police in Belleville in 2018. The rate of police-reported hate crime—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was 5.3 incidents per 100,000 population in Ontario and 4.9 in Canada.

Intimate partner violence

There were 330 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Belleville in 2018, 36% higher than Ontario (243) and 2% higher than Canada (323).
The large majority (80%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Belleville were female, similar to Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 4.1% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Belleville between 2016 and 2018, slightly higher than in Ontario (3.7%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Belleville had 1 homicide—a rate of 0.90 per 100,000 population—lower than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
The single homicide victim in Belleville was female. Meanwhile, 27% of homicide victims in Ontario and 25% of homicide victims in Canada were female.
The number of homicides in Belleville decreased from 4 victims in 2016 to 1 victim in 2018.

Charts and tables

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Chart 1 Police-reported violent and non-violent Crime Severity Indexes, census metropolitan area of Barrie, Ontario and Canada, 1998 to 2018

Data table for Chart 1

Data table for Chart 1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 1. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Violent Crime Severity Index, Non-violent Crime Severity Index, Belleville, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Belleville	Ontario	Canada	Belleville	Ontario	Canada
	index
2016	57	65	77	54	49	70
2017	119	70	81	61	51	71
2018	69	73	82	58	55	72
Note: Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes are available as of 1998. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2016 are not available for Belleville as a CMA. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Chart 2 Police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim, census metropolitan area of Barrie, Ontario and Canada, 2009 to 2018

Data table for Chart 2

Data table for Chart 2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 2. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims, Belleville, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Belleville	Ontario	Canada	Belleville	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2016	1,256	741	978	847	708	910
2017	1,863	790	1,019	811	739	926
2018	1,265	834	1,048	851	766	936
Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where the sex was reported as unknown. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. For a list of offences included in violent crime see Table 2. Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2016 are not available for Belleville as a CMA. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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Chart 3 Police-reported property crime, census metropolitan area of Barrie, Ontario and Canada, 2009 to 2018

Data table for Chart 3

Data table for Chart 3
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 3. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Belleville, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Belleville	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2016	2,455	2,315	3,239
2017	2,886	2,428	3,266
2018	2,596	2,621	3,339
Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. For a list of offences included in property crime see Table 3. Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2016 are not available for Belleville as a CMA. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 1
Police-reported crime rate for selected offences, census metropolitan area of Belleville, Ontario and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Belleville, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Belleville and Ontario and Percent difference between Belleville and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Belleville	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Belleville and Ontario	Percent difference between Belleville and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Belleville and Ontario	Percent difference between Belleville and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	4,980	4,113	5,488	21	-9
Total violent crime	1,137	899	1,143	27	-0.5
Violations causing death and attempted murder	3	5	4	-44	-37
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	126	91	101	39	25
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	540	500	649	8	-17
Other violent offences	468	303	389	54	20
Total property crime	2,596	2,621	3,339	-0.9	-22
Breaking and entering	285	319	431	-11	-34
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	1,316	1,506	1,720	-13	-23
Fraud	445	381	402	17	11
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	478	372	699	29	-32
Other property crime offences	72	43	86	65	-17
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	1,247	593	1,006	110	24
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	193	199	339	-3	-43
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	135	92	178	47	-24
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	4	6	12	-28	-63
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	0.9	0.6	0.7	60	33
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.4	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	52	99	148	-48	-65
Total drug offences	222	146	225	52	-1
Total other federal statute offences	16	29	70	-45	-77
Total all offences	5,411	4,487	6,123	21	-12
Note 1 Includes sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children, and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offence against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites a child). Excludes incidents of child pornography. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes assault (level 1, 2 and 3), assault against a peace officer, unlawfully causing bodily harm, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and other assaults. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes total theft of motor vehicle, total theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) and total theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes altering, removing or destroying a vehicle identification number. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle, alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of alcohol and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes drug-impaired operation of a vehicle, drug-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of drugs and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Reflects new impaired driving offences as per Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which came into effect part way through 2018. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 2
Police-reported violent crime rate for selected offences, by sex of victim, census metropolitan area of Belleville, Ontario and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported violent crime rate for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Belleville, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Belleville		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	1,265	851	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	4	3	7	2	6
Homicide	0	2	1	3	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	2	0	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	0	2	1	4	1	3
Sexual offences	215	29	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	170	22	130	17	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	0	0	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	2	0	2	0.5	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	169	22	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	44	7	22	5	36	7
Assaults	497	580	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	486	542	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	0	5	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	85	112	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	401	424	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	11	36	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	0	2	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	552	239	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	2	0	2	6	2	6
Robbery	20	38	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	16	0	12	2	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	0	0	2	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.	1	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.
Extortion	2	0	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	255	60	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	202	129	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	21	5	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	21	2	5	0.8	7	1
Commodification of sexual activity^{Table 2 Note 4}	0	0	0.6	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.	1	0.1
Other violent offences	12	5	6	3	10	8
Total traffic offences	2	2	2	3	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	2	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	2	0	2	3	6	7
Traffic violations – injury unspecified or unknown^{Table 2 Note 5}	0	0	0.1	0	9	12
0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value. Note 1 Includes, for example, criminal negligence causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offence against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites a child). Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault, and incidents of child pornography. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes four specific indictable offences to address human trafficking, namely sections 279.01 (trafficking in persons), 279.011 (trafficking of a person under the age of 18), 279.02 (material benefit) and 279.03 (withholding or destroying documents). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 As of December 2014, new offences classified as “commodification of sexual activity” under “violent crime” include: the purchasing of sexual services or communicating for that purpose, receiving a material benefit deriving from the purchase of sexual services, procuring of persons for the purpose of prostitution and advertising sexual services offered for sale. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes failure to stop after an accident and failure to stop or remain (expired 2011-04-28). Return to note 5 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where the sex was reported as unknown. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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Table 3
Police-reported crime for selected offences, census metropolitan area of Belleville, Ontario and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Belleville, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Belleville		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	4,769	4,274	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	2,897	2,596	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	318	285	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	71	64	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	114	102	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	50	45	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	1,305	1,170	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	482	432	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	0	0	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	15	13	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	533	478	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	9	8	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	1,391	1,247	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	58	52	4,415	31	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	23	21	1,669	12	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	1	0.9	29	0.2	110	0.3
Terrorism	0	0	58	0.4	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	583	522	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	632	566	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	94	84	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	215	193	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	151	135	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	5	4	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	1	0.9	80	0.6	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	55	0.4	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	58	52	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	248	222	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	18	16	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	1	0.9	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	2	2	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	15	13	3,027	21	21,149	57
Note 1 Includes trafficking and the intent to traffic stolen goods. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes altering, removing or destroying a vehicle identification number. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes offences under section 163.1 of the Criminal Code which makes it illegal to access, possess, make, print or distribute child pornography. When the victim is not identified, this offence is reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey with the most serious offence being “child pornography” which falls under the larger crime category of “other Criminal Code offences.” In cases where a victim is identified, police will report the most serious offence as sexual assault, sexual exploitation or other sexual violations against children, which fall under the category of “violent crime” and child pornography may be reported as a secondary violation. Due to the complexity of these cyber incidents, the data likely reflect the number of active or closed investigations for the year rather than the total number of incidents reported to police. Data are based on police-reported incidents that are recorded in police services’ records management systems. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes prostitution offences that are considered non-violent offences. These include: communicating to provide sexual services for consideration and stopping or impeding traffic for the purpose of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration. Excludes commodification of sexual activity offences. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle, alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of alcohol and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes drug-impaired operation of a vehicle, drug-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of drugs and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Reflects new impaired driving offences as per Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which came into effect part way through 2018. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes human trafficking offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, census metropolitan area of Belleville, 2016 to 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Violent crime, Property crime and Total crime, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent crime			Property crime			Total crime
Year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year
2016	1,108	1,101	Note ...: not applicable	2,470	2,455	Note ...: not applicable	4,816	4,786	Note ...: not applicable
2017	1,431	1,401	27	2,947	2,886	18	5,695	5,577	17
2018	1,269	1,137	-19	2,897	2,596	-10	5,557	4,980	-11
Percent change from 2016 to 2018	15	3	Note ...: not applicable	17	6	Note ...: not applicable	15	4	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. For a list of offences included in violent crime see Table 2 and for a list of offences included in property crime see Table 3. Total crime includes violent, property and other types of crimes. Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2016 are not available for Belleville as a CMA. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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^E use with caution

Note:This fact sheet contains data that come from multiple sources across multiple reference years. Some figures may be presented differently than in other Statistics Canada publications due to rounding. For detailed information on data definitions and sources, please refer to the Safe Cities profile series: Definitions and data sources document. Figures for community safety and sense of belonging are based on 2014 data when Belleville was classified as a census agglomeration and not yet a census metropolitan area.

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