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

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Peterborough 79%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%

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

* significantly different from Peterborough (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Peterborough 839, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

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

Peterborough -21%, Ontario -16%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough was home to 131,283 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 87 residents per square kilometre. Just over one in four (27%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 4.6% of Peterborough residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, higher than Ontario (2.8%) but closer to Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented less than one in ten (8.5%) residents, much lower than Ontario (29.1%) and Canada (21.9%). A small proportion (7.5%) of immigrants in Peterborough were recent immigrants (since 2011), lower than Ontario (12.3%) and Canada (16.1%). There was a notably smaller proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Peterborough (4.8%) than Ontario (29.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, nearly two in three (64%) Peterborough residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, one in four (26%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and one in ten (10%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Peterborough (4.8%) was lower than in Ontario (5.6%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Peterborough earned a median after-tax annual income of $50,610 in 2017, lower than in Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was similar in Peterborough (16%), Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.4 persons per household in Peterborough in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Most (69%) households in Peterborough owned their homes, on par with Ontario (70%) and Canada (71%). 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 just over one in four (27%) Peterborough households, similar to Ontario (28%) but slightly higher than Canada (24%). A small proportion (6.5%) of occupied private dwellings in Peterborough were in need of major repairs, similar to Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). About one-sixth (17%) of Peterborough families were lone-parent families, on par with Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated 259 homeless individuals living in Peterborough.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, one in three (32%) Peterborough residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, not significantly different from Ontario residents (40%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Over half (56%) of Peterborough residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, not significantly different from Ontario (51%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Peterborough were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (37%^E versus 75%), similar to Ontario and Canada’s provinces.
About one in six (17%^E) Peterborough residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, not significantly different from Ontario (21%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
One in three (33%^E) Peterborough residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, not significantly different than Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
About 28%^E of Peterborough residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, not significantly different from Ontario (20%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (78%) of Peterborough residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, similar to Ontario (76%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (89%) of Peterborough 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 three (33%) Peterborough 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, Peterborough police reported an overall crime rate of 4,246 incidents per 100,000 population, 3% higher than in Ontario (4,113) but 23% lower than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 21% in Peterborough, while a smaller decline was seen in Ontario (-16%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Peterborough declined by 10% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to a decrease in breaking and entering, robbery and other violent Criminal Code violations. Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Peterborough declined by 28%, compared with a 15% decline in Ontario and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 2,186 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Peterborough in 2018, 17% lower than in Ontario (2,621) and 35% lower than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 839 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Peterborough, 7% lower than Ontario (899) and 27% lower than Canada overall (1,143).
- In Peterborough, 59% of victims of violent crime were female, while this was somewhat less common in Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Peterborough declined by 12%, similar to the decline seen in Ontario (-14%) and Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Peterborough declined by 26%, which was two times greater than the decline in Ontario (-11%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women declined to a much smaller extent in Peterborough than violent crime against boys and men between 2009 and 2018 (-3% versus -27%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was much lower in Peterborough (0.8 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 Peterborough decreased by 91%, while there was an increase in Ontario (+10%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 245 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Peterborough in 2018, on par with Ontario (243) but 24% lower than Canada (323).
The large majority (82%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Peterborough were female, similar to Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 3.0% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Peterborough between 2009 and 2018, slightly lower than in Ontario (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Peterborough had 1 homicide—a rate of 0.78 per 100,000 population—lower than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
The single homicide in Peterborough involved a female victim. Meanwhile, 27% of homicides in Ontario and 25% of homicides in Canada involved a female victim.
The number of homicides in Peterborough remained the same with 1 victim in 2008 and 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 Peterborough, 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, Peterborough, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Peterborough	Ontario	Canada	Peterborough	Ontario	Canada
	index
2006	66	87	100	85	75	100
2007	63	86	98	62	70	94
2008	70	82	95	66	67	89
2009	61	82	94	69	64	85
2010	66	78	89	69	61	81
2011	62	73	86	64	57	75
2012	66	70	82	62	55	73
2013	58	62	74	53	49	67
2014	51	58	71	54	47	65
2015	58	60	75	54	48	68
2016	70	65	77	50	49	70
2017	69	70	81	48	51	71
2018	52	73	82	47	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 2006 Census of Population, Peterborough was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2006 are not available for Peterborough 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 Peterborough, 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, Peterborough, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Peterborough	Ontario	Canada	Peterborough	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	860	937	1,206	854	940	1,202
2010	816	917	1,209	791	913	1,162
2011	815	872	1,124	784	859	1,087
2012	808	824	1,079	770	809	1,048
2013	829	771	1,004	744	726	947
2014	773	721	952	701	675	898
2015	764	729	970	629	687	914
2016	849	741	978	686	708	910
2017	833	790	1,019	711	739	926
2018	838	834	1,048	621	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 Peterborough, 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), Peterborough, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Peterborough	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	3,694	3,193	4,122
2010	3,416	2,968	3,838
2011	3,093	2,760	3,536
2012	3,152	2,648	3,438
2013	2,897	2,365	3,154
2014	2,977	2,281	3,100
2015	2,734	2,290	3,231
2016	2,395	2,315	3,239
2017	2,310	2,428	3,266
2018	2,186	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 Peterborough, 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), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Peterborough and Ontario and Percent difference between Peterborough and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Peterborough	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Peterborough and Ontario	Percent difference between Peterborough and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Peterborough and Ontario	Percent difference between Peterborough and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	4,246	4,113	5,488	3	-23
Total violent crime	839	899	1,143	-7	-27
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	5	4	-68	-63
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	102	91	101	12	0.7
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	474	500	649	-5	-27
Other violent offences	262	303	389	-14	-33
Total property crime	2,186	2,621	3,339	-17	-35
Breaking and entering	223	319	431	-30	-48
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	1,204	1,506	1,720	-20	-30
Fraud	347	381	402	-9	-14
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	375	372	699	1	-46
Other property crime offences	36	43	86	-16	-58
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	1,220	593	1,006	106	21
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	214	199	339	8	-37
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	147	92	178	59	-17
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	7	6	12	12	-42
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	2	0.6	0.7	178	130
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.4	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	59	99	148	-41	-60
Total drug offences	109	146	225	-26	-52
Total other federal statute offences	22	29	70	-23	-68
Total all offences	4,591	4,487	6,123	2	-25
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 Peterborough, 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), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Peterborough		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	838	621	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	3	0	3	7	2	6
Homicide	2	0	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	172	22	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	154	14	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	153	14	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	18	8	22	5	36	7
Assaults	482	460	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	472	416	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	8	13	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	83	127	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	381	276	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	11	45	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	0	0	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	180	139	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	0	3	2	6	2	6
Robbery	6	27	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	6	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	0	0	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	80	18	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	76	86	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	5	2	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	6	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	2	3	6	3	10	8
Total traffic offences	2	2	2	3	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	0	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	2	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 Peterborough, 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), Peterborough, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Peterborough		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	4,837	3,752	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	2,819	2,186	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	288	223	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	43	33	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	92	71	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	25	19	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	1,435	1,113	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	430	334	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	2	2	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	16	12	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	484	375	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	4	3	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	1,573	1,220	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	24	19	4,415	31	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	6	5	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	215	167	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	1,293	1,003	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	35	27	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	276	214	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	189	147	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	9	7	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	2	2	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	76	59	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	140	109	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	29	22	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	2	2	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	8	6	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	19	15	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 Peterborough, 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	1,144	954	0.2	4,353	3,630	7	6,432	5,363	5
2009	1,080	900	-6	4,433	3,694	2	6,313	5,260	-2
2010	1,016	840	-7	4,130	3,416	-8	5,905	4,884	-7
2011	1,014	837	-0.4	3,747	3,093	-9	5,531	4,565	-7
2012	984	811	-3	3,823	3,152	2	5,642	4,651	2
2013	999	821	1	3,526	2,897	-8	5,460	4,486	-4
2014	943	773	-6	3,631	2,977	3	5,463	4,480	-0.1
2015	928	759	-2	3,343	2,734	-8	5,249	4,292	-4
2016	1,023	826	9	2,964	2,395	-12	5,295	4,278	-0.3
2017	1,073	854	3	2,902	2,310	-4	5,240	4,171	-3
2018	1,082	839	-2	2,819	2,186	-5	5,474	4,246	2
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	-5	-12	Note ...: not applicable	-35	-40	Note ...: not applicable	-15	-21	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
Peterborough, Ontario

Satisfaction with safety

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

Community safety and sense of belonging

Self-reported experiences of victimization

Police-reported crime

Property crime

Violent crime

Hate crime

Intimate partner violence

Homicide

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