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

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Greater Sudbury 90%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%

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

* significantly different from Greater Sudbury (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Greater Sudbury 1,205, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

Greater Sudbury +6%, Ontario -16%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Greater Sudbury was home to 171,471 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 44 residents per square kilometre. Over one in four (28%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 9.7% of Greater Sudbury residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, notably higher than Ontario (2.8%) and Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented a small proportion (5.8%) of residents, notably lower than Ontario (29.1%) and Canada (21.9%). One in ten (11%) immigrants in Greater Sudbury were recent immigrants (since 2011), similar to Ontario (12%) but lower than Canada (16%). There was a notably smaller proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Greater Sudbury (3.7%) than Ontario (29.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, nearly two in three (64%) Greater Sudbury residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, one in four (25%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and one in ten (11%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Greater Sudbury (6.4%) was slightly higher than in Ontario (5.6%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Greater Sudbury earned a median after-tax annual income of $55,790 in 2017, higher than in Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was lower in Greater Sudbury (13%) than in Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.3 persons per household in Greater Sudbury in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Most (66%) households in Greater Sudbury owned their homes, slightly lower than Ontario (70%) but similar to 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 five (21%) Greater Sudbury households, lower than in Ontario (28%) but closer to Canada (24%). A small proportion (7.6%) of occupied private dwellings in Greater Sudbury were in need of major repairs, slightly higher than Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). About one-fifth (18%) of Greater Sudbury families were lone-parent families, similar to Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated 581 homeless individuals living in Greater Sudbury.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, one in three (34%^E) Greater Sudbury residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, which was not significantly different from Ontario residents (40%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Around half (48%) of Greater Sudbury residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, a similar proportion as in Ontario (51%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Greater Sudbury were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (34%^E versus 61%), similar to Ontario and Canada’s provinces.
Three in ten (30%^E) Greater Sudbury residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, which was not significantly different from Ontario (21%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
Nearly one in five (18%^E) Greater Sudbury residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, which was not significantly different from Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
Over a six-year period (2009 to 2014), 13%^E of Greater Sudbury residents experienced discrimination, similar to Ontario (15%) and Canada’s provinces (13%).
About 16%^E of Greater Sudbury residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, which was not significantly different from Ontario (20%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (76%) of Greater Sudbury residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, on par with Ontario (76%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (91%) of Greater Sudbury residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, the same proportion as in Ontario (91%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Greater Sudbury police reported an overall crime rate of 5,677 incidents per 100,000 population, 38% higher than in Ontario (4,113) and 3% higher than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime increased by 6% in Greater Sudbury, while a decline was seen in Ontario (-16%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Greater Sudbury increased by 5% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to an increase in breaking and entering, and sexual assault (level 1). Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Greater Sudbury increased by 8%, compared with a 15% decline in Ontario and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 3,251 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Greater Sudbury in 2018, 24% higher than in Ontario (2,621) but 3% lower than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 1,205 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Greater Sudbury, 34% higher than Ontario (899) and 5% higher than Canada overall (1,143).
- Over half of victims of violent crime were female in Greater Sudbury (57%), Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Greater Sudbury increased by 10%, while there was a decline seen in Ontario (-14%) and Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Greater Sudbury increased by 17%, while there was a decline in Ontario (-11%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women in Greater Sudbury between 2009 and 2018 declined to a much smaller extent than violent crime against boys and men (-2% versus -25%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was far lower in Greater Sudbury (1.8 incidents per 100,000 population) than in Ontario (5.3) and Canada (4.9) in 2018.
Between 2014 and 2018, the rate of police-reported hate crime in Greater Sudbury increased from no incidents in 2014 to 3 incidents in 2018. Meanwhile, there was an increase in Ontario (+10%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 307 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Greater Sudbury in 2018, 26% higher than Ontario (243) but 5% lower than Canada (323).
The large majority (85%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Greater Sudbury were female, slightly higher than in Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 1.7% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Greater Sudbury between 2009 and 2018, notably lower than in Ontario (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Greater Sudbury had 1 homicide—a rate of 0.59 per 100,000 population—lower than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
The single homicide victim in Greater Sudbury was male. Meanwhile, 27% of homicide victims in Ontario and 25% of homicide victims in Canada were female.
The number of homicides in Greater Sudbury decreased from 2 victims in 2008 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 Hamilton, 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, Greater Sudbury, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	Canada	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	Canada
	index
1998	70	85	98	122	107	127
1999	78	83	99	108	96	116
2000	70	85	98	110	91	110
2001	87	85	97	98	87	108
2002	75	82	96	93	85	107
2003	61	81	98	100	84	110
2004	57	79	96	92	78	107
2005	76	83	99	85	74	102
2006	94	87	100	88	75	100
2007	91	86	98	74	70	94
2008	75	82	95	73	67	89
2009	98	82	94	74	64	85
2010	85	78	89	84	61	81
2011	78	73	86	79	57	75
2012	75	70	82	70	55	73
2013	66	62	74	67	49	67
2014	64	58	71	60	47	65
2015	64	60	75	57	48	68
2016	63	65	77	68	49	70
2017	77	70	81	75	51	71
2018	88	73	82	76	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. 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 Hamilton, 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, Greater Sudbury, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	Canada	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	1,108	937	1,206	1,096	940	1,202
2010	1,053	917	1,209	1,023	913	1,162
2011	969	872	1,124	898	859	1,087
2012	909	824	1,079	822	809	1,048
2013	858	771	1,004	730	726	947
2014	834	721	952	644	675	898
2015	790	729	970	636	687	914
2016	788	741	978	633	708	910
2017	860	790	1,019	690	739	926
2018	1,085	834	1,048	820	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. 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 Hamilton, 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), Greater Sudbury, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	3,578	3,193	4,122
2010	3,882	2,968	3,838
2011	3,550	2,760	3,536
2012	3,237	2,648	3,438
2013	2,945	2,365	3,154
2014	2,861	2,281	3,100
2015	2,559	2,290	3,231
2016	2,634	2,315	3,239
2017	3,392	2,428	3,266
2018	3,251	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. 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 Greater Sudbury, 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), Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Greater Sudbury and Ontario and Percent difference between Greater Sudbury and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Greater Sudbury and Ontario	Percent difference between Greater Sudbury and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Greater Sudbury and Ontario	Percent difference between Greater Sudbury and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	5,677	4,113	5,488	38	3
Total violent crime	1,205	899	1,143	34	5
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	5	4	-63	-58
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	163	91	101	79	61
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	680	500	649	36	5
Other violent offences	360	303	389	19	-7
Total property crime	3,251	2,621	3,339	24	-3
Breaking and entering	638	319	431	100	48
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	1,718	1,506	1,720	14	-0.1
Fraud	442	381	402	16	10
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	407	372	699	10	-42
Other property crime offences	46	43	86	5	-47
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	1,221	593	1,006	106	21
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	129	199	339	-35	-62
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	83	92	178	-10	-53
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	8	6	12	24	-35
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	0.6	0.6	0.7	6	-12
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	1	0.4	0.3	210	369
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	36	99	148	-63	-76
Total drug offences	102	146	225	-30	-55
Total other federal statute offences	4	29	70	-86	-94
Total all offences	5,912	4,487	6,123	32	-3
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 Greater Sudbury, 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), Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Greater Sudbury		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	1,085	820	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	1	3	7	2	6
Homicide	0	1	1	3	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	0	0	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	2	0	1	4	1	3
Sexual offences	258	48	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	218	41	130	17	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	1	0	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	8	1	2	0.5	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	209	40	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	40	7	22	5	36	7
Assaults	682	678	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	654	574	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	4	16	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	147	190	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	504	368	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	15	94	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	12	11	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	143	92	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	1	7	2	6	2	6
Robbery	24	49	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	35	2	12	2	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	2	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	0	1	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	31	4	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	38	22	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	0	0	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	7	0	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	5	7	6	3	10	8
Total traffic offences	0	2	2	3	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	0	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	0	2	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 Greater Sudbury, 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), Greater Sudbury, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Greater Sudbury		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	7,915	4,707	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	5,466	3,251	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	1,072	638	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	56	33	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	279	166	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	66	39	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	2,544	1,513	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	655	390	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	13	8	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	75	45	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	685	407	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	21	12	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	2,053	1,221	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	63	37	4,415	31	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	57	34	1,669	12	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	0	0	29	0.2	110	0.3
Terrorism	0	0	58	0.4	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	3	2	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	1,827	1,087	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	103	61	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	217	129	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	140	83	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	13	8	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	1	0.6	80	0.6	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	2	1	55	0.4	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	61	36	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	172	102	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	7	4	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	0	0	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	6	4	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	1	0.6	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 Greater Sudbury, 2008 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
2008	1,805	1,094	-5	5,833	3,534	-3	8,801	5,332	-4
2009	1,886	1,142	4	5,911	3,578	1	8,880	5,376	0.8
2010	1,844	1,119	-2	6,394	3,882	8	9,427	5,723	6
2011	1,763	1,070	-4	5,850	3,550	-9	8,865	5,380	-6
2012	1,689	1,022	-4	5,350	3,237	-9	8,295	5,019	-7
2013	1,622	979	-4	4,880	2,945	-9	7,734	4,668	-7
2014	1,582	956	-2	4,735	2,861	-3	7,484	4,523	-3
2015	1,556	940	-2	4,235	2,559	-11	7,111	4,297	-5
2016	1,589	958	2	4,369	2,634	3	7,578	4,569	6
2017	1,706	1,025	7	5,643	3,392	29	8,977	5,396	18
2018	2,026	1,205	18	5,466	3,251	-4	9,545	5,677	5
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	12	10	Note ...: not applicable	-6	-8	Note ...: not applicable	8	6	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. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

Table 4 end

^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.

Date modified:: 2020-05-15

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

Satisfaction with safety

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

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Housing and families

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

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Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

Population and demographics

Education, employment and income

Housing and families

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Property crime

Violent crime

Hate crime

Intimate partner violence

Homicide

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