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

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Saguenay 93%, Quebec 88%*, Canada 88%*

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

* significantly different from Saguenay (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Saguenay 987, Quebec 1,078, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

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

Saguenay -27%, Quebec -35%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Saguenay, Quebec

Saguenay, Quebec

Saguenay was home to 162,057 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 59 residents per square kilometre. One in four (25%) residents were aged 24 and younger, slightly lower than the distribution in Quebec (27%) and across Canada (28%).

About 4.3% of Saguenay residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, higher than Quebec (2.3%) but similar to Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented a small proportion of residents (1.3%), notably lower than Quebec (13.7%) and far lower than Canada (21.9%). One in five (20%) immigrants in Saguenay were recent immigrants (since 2011), similar to Quebec (20%) but higher than Canada (16%). There was a notably smaller proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Saguenay (1.3%) than Quebec (13.0%) and far lower than Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, nearly three-quarters (73%) of Saguenay residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, one in six (16%) 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 Saguenay (6.1%) was slightly higher than in Quebec (5.5%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Saguenay earned a median after-tax annual income of $48,840 in 2017, somewhat higher than in Quebec ($46,980) but lower than the rest of Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was lower in Saguenay (13%) than in Quebec (16%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.2 persons per household in Saguenay in 2016, similar to Quebec (2.3) and Canada (2.4). The majority (64%) of households in Saguenay owned their homes, a slightly higher proportion than Quebec (61%) but lower than 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 six (17%) Saguenay households, lower than in Quebec (21%) and Canada (24%). A small proportion (5.4%) of occupied private dwellings in Saguenay were in need of major repairs, lower than Quebec (6.4%) and Canada (6.5%). One in seven (14%) Saguenay families were lone-parent families, slightly lower than in Quebec (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2012, there were an estimated 433 individuals staying in emergency shelters in Saguenay, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières combined.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, almost half (44%) of Saguenay residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, which was not significantly different from Quebec residents (36%) or Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Six in ten (61%) Saguenay residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, which was not significantly different from the proportion in Quebec (53%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Saguenay were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (40%^E versus 75%), similar to Quebec and Canada’s provinces.
One in four (25%) Saguenay residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, similar to Quebec (24%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
One-third (33%) of Saguenay residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, which was not significantly different from Quebec (28%) or Canada’s provinces (25%).
About 22%^E of Saguenay residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, on par with Quebec (22%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (87%) of Saguenay residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, significantly higher than in Quebec (70%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (91%) of Saguenay residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, which was similar to the proportion in Quebec (92%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Self-reported experiences of victimization

In 2018, one in seven (14%) Saguenay residents aged 15 and older experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, which was not significantly different than Quebec (17%) but was significantly lower than Canada’s provinces (23%).
- In Saguenay, the difference between the proportion of women and men who experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public was not significant (16% versus 13%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Saguenay police reported an overall crime rate of 2,997 incidents per 100,000 population, 9% lower than in Quebec (3,304) and 45% lower than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 27% in Saguenay, while a larger decline was seen in Quebec (-35%) and a smaller decline in Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Saguenay declined by 12% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to a decrease in failure to stop and remain (traffic offences), and breaking and entering. Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Saguenay declined by 29%, compared with a 32% decline in Quebec and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 1,462 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Saguenay in 2018, 18% lower than Quebec (1,774) and 56% lower than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 987 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Saguenay, 8% lower than Quebec (1,078) and 14% lower than Canada overall (1,143).
- In Saguenay, just over half (52%) of victims of violent crime were female, similar to Quebec (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Saguenay declined by 9%, a larger decrease than Quebec (a decline of less than 1%) but a smaller decrease than Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Saguenay increased by 12%, while there was a decline in Quebec (-13%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women increased slightly in Saguenay between 2009 and 2018 while violent crime against boys and men saw a large decrease (+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 Saguenay (1.2 incidents per 100,000 population) than in Quebec (5.4) and Canada (4.9) in 2018.
Between 2014 and 2018, the rate of police-reported hate crime in Saguenay decreased by 34%, in contrast to the increases seen in Quebec (+71%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 263 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Saguenay in 2018, 19% lower than Quebec (324) and 18% lower than Canada (323).
The large majority (85%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Saguenay were female, higher than in Quebec (77%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 5.0% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Saguenay between 2009 and 2018, higher than in Quebec (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Saguenay had 1 homicide—a rate of 0.59 per 100,000 population—lower than Quebec (0.99) and Canada (1.76).
The single homicide in Saguenay involved a male victim. Meanwhile, 22% of homicides in Quebec and 25% of homicides in Canada involved a female victim.
The number of homicides in Saguenay increased from no 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 Saguenay, Quebec 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, Saguenay, Quebec and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Saguenay	Quebec	Canada	Saguenay	Quebec	Canada
	index
1998	50	90	98	139	121	127
1999	59	96	99	105	108	116
2000	51	94	98	103	105	110
2001	40	89	97	91	99	108
2002	43	89	96	71	95	107
2003	43	89	98	66	94	110
2004	54	88	96	64	91	107
2005	45	89	99	57	90	102
2006	59	91	100	58	91	100
2007	69	84	98	65	85	94
2008	56	82	95	72	83	89
2009	71	80	94	78	82	85
2010	58	76	89	78	76	81
2011	60	78	86	78	71	75
2012	73	75	82	70	69	73
2013	55	68	74	60	60	67
2014	59	64	71	53	55	65
2015	61	66	75	51	53	68
2016	68	68	77	52	52	70
2017	59	73	81	53	52	71
2018	63	72	82	43	51	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 Saguenay, Quebec 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, Saguenay, Quebec and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Saguenay	Quebec	Canada	Saguenay	Quebec	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	992	992	1,206	1,227	1,093	1,202
2010	1,067	995	1,209	1,223	1,032	1,162
2011	991	977	1,124	1,026	1,003	1,087
2012	1,132	980	1,079	1,151	995	1,048
2013	973	937	1,004	1,046	935	947
2014	1,022	899	952	1,096	908	898
2015	1,025	914	970	945	907	914
2016	973	935	978	1,048	913	910
2017	977	996	1,019	900	920	926
2018	1,010	1,011	1,048	916	912	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 Saguenay, Quebec 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), Saguenay, Quebec and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Saguenay	Quebec	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	2,691	3,378	4,122
2010	2,599	3,110	3,838
2011	2,512	2,852	3,536
2012	2,202	2,718	3,438
2013	1,871	2,352	3,154
2014	1,706	2,115	3,100
2015	1,810	2,025	3,231
2016	1,746	1,898	3,239
2017	1,814	1,866	3,266
2018	1,462	1,774	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 Saguenay, Quebec 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), Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, Percent difference between Saguenay and Quebec and Percent difference between Saguenay and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Saguenay	Quebec	Canada	Percent difference between Saguenay and Quebec	Percent difference between Saguenay and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Saguenay and Quebec	Percent difference between Saguenay and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	2,997	3,304	5,488	-9	-45
Total violent crime	987	1,078	1,143	-8	-14
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	4	4	-53	-58
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	119	103	101	15	17
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	490	578	649	-15	-25
Other violent offences	377	393	389	-4	-3
Total property crime	1,462	1,774	3,339	-18	-56
Breaking and entering	269	311	431	-14	-38
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	658	857	1,720	-23	-62
Fraud	211	273	402	-23	-48
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	286	291	699	-2	-59
Other property crime offences	38	42	86	-9	-56
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	548	453	1,006	21	-46
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	642	466	339	38	90
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	175	153	178	15	-1
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	17	13	12	33	39
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.9	0.7	-100	-100
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.1	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	450	300	148	50	204
Total drug offences	201	275	225	-27	-11
Total other federal statute offences	17	124	70	-87	-76
Total all offences	3,857	4,169	6,123	-7	-37
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 Saguenay, Quebec 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), Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Saguenay		Quebec		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	1,010	916	1,011	912	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	1	2	5	2	6
Homicide	0	1	0.4	2	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	0	0	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	2	0	0.9	4	1	3
Sexual offences	207	30	167	24	170	23
Sexual assault	133	16	116	13	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	0	0	0.7	0.2	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	0	0	2	0.2	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	133	16	114	13	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	74	14	51	11	36	7
Assaults	435	543	497	557	613	644
Physical assault	417	486	481	505	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	1	5	2	3	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	101	176	87	142	111	173
Assault – level 1	315	305	391	359	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	16	54	13	48	10	48
Other assaults	2	4	3	4	4	7
Other violent offences	365	341	345	325	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	2	2	1	4	2	6
Robbery	14	19	25	49	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	23	7	17	3	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	0	0	0.9	0	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	4	6	12	17	6	9
Criminal harassment	110	48	93	32	53	17
Uttering threats	178	249	155	192	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	12	4	8	3	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	6	1	8	0.9	7	1
Commodification of sexual activity^{Table 2 Note 4}	1	0	4	0.1	1	0.1
Other violent offences	14	6	22	25	10	8
Total traffic offences	57	41	57	74	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	0	0.3	0.8	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	19	8	16	19	6	7
Traffic violations – injury unspecified or unknown^{Table 2 Note 5}	38	33	41	54	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 Saguenay, Quebec 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), Saguenay, Quebec and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Saguenay		Quebec		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	4,843	2,870	259,406	3,092	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	2,467	1,462	148,817	1,774	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	454	269	26,110	311	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	21	12	1,550	18	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	196	116	12,455	148	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	50	30	3,553	42	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	864	512	55,911	666	531,312	1,434
Fraud	302	179	16,924	202	129,409	349
Identity theft	46	27	1,834	22	3,745	10
Identity fraud	8	5	4,143	49	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	483	286	24,394	291	259,064	699
Arson	43	25	1,943	23	8,000	22
Total other offences	925	548	38,016	453	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	36	21	1,879	22	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	13	8	1,073	13	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	0	0	11	0.1	110	0.3
Terrorism	0	0	17	0.2	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	0	0	549	7	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	831	492	30,570	364	226,864	612
Other offences	45	27	3,917	47	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	1,084	642	39,074	466	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	296	175	12,805	153	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	28	17	1,050	13	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	74	0.9	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	7	0.1	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	760	450	25,138	300	54,951	148
Total drug offences	339	201	23,068	275	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	28	17	10,431	124	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	0	0	3	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.	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	27	16	768	9	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	1	0.6	9,660	115	21,149	57
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 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 Saguenay, 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	1,591	1,091	-6	3,539	2,426	-9	6,024	4,129	-6
2009	1,636	1,119	3	3,933	2,691	11	6,425	4,396	6
2010	1,690	1,152	3	3,812	2,599	-3	6,526	4,449	1
2011	1,697	1,017	-12	4,193	2,512	-3	6,936	4,156	-7
2012	1,927	1,149	13	3,693	2,202	-12	6,802	4,055	-2
2013	1,709	1,017	-11	3,145	1,871	-15	5,953	3,542	-13
2014	1,787	1,064	5	2,866	1,706	-9	5,423	3,229	-9
2015	1,683	1,002	-6	3,039	1,810	6	5,348	3,185	-1
2016	1,728	1,028	3	2,934	1,746	-4	5,544	3,299	4
2017	1,611	957	-7	3,053	1,814	4	5,496	3,265	-1
2018	1,666	987	3	2,467	1,462	-19	5,058	2,997	-8
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	5	-9	Note ...: not applicable	-30	-40	Note ...: not applicable	-16	-27	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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