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

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Thunder Bay 84%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%

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

* significantly different from Thunder Bay (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Thunder Bay 1,545, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

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

Thunder Bay -33%, Ontario -16%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Thunder Bay, Ontario

Thunder Bay, Ontario

Thunder Bay was home to 126,481 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 49 residents per square kilometre. Over one in four (27%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 12.7% of Thunder Bay 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 around one in ten (8.8%) residents, far lower than Ontario (29.1%) and Canada (21.9%). A small proportion (6.6%) of immigrants in Thunder Bay 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 Thunder Bay (4.0%) than Ontario (29.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, nearly two in three (63%) Thunder Bay 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 eight (12%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Thunder Bay (5.1%) was slightly lower than in Ontario (5.6%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Thunder Bay earned a median after-tax annual income of $53,060 in 2017, similar to Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income in Thunder Bay (15%) was just under Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.3 persons per household in Thunder Bay in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Most (72%) households in Thunder Bay owned their homes, on par with Ontario (70%) and Canada (68%). When a household spends 30% or more of its income on shelter costs, it is considered to live in unaffordable housing: this was the case for one in five (19%) Thunder Bay households, lower than in Ontario (28%) and Canada (24%). A small proportion (7.3%) of occupied private dwellings in Thunder Bay were in need of major repairs, slightly higher than Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). One-fifth (19%) of Thunder Bay families were lone-parent families, slightly higher than in Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated 474 homeless individuals living in Thunder Bay.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, over two in five (43%^E) Thunder Bay 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%).
Three in ten (30%^E) Thunder Bay residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, which was significantly lower than Ontario (51%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
Three in ten (30%^E) Thunder Bay 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%).
One in four (26%^E) Thunder Bay residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, similar to Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
Over a six-year period (2009 to 2014), 13%^E of Thunder Bay residents experienced discrimination, similar to Ontario (15%) and Canada’s provinces (13%).
About 25%^E of Thunder Bay residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, which was not significantly different from Ontario (20%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Thunder Bay residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, which was not significantly different from Ontario (76%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (89%) of Thunder Bay 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 four (24%) Thunder Bay residents aged 15 and older experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, similar to Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (23%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Thunder Bay police reported an overall crime rate of 5,778 incidents per 100,000 population, 40% higher than in Ontario (4,113) and 5% higher than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 33% in Thunder Bay, while a smaller decline was seen in Ontario (-16%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Thunder Bay increased by 9% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to an increase in breaking and entering; robbery; fraud; trafficking, production and distribution of cannabis (pre-legalization); attempted murder; and homicide. Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Thunder Bay declined by 12%, compared with a 15% decline in Ontario and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 3,321 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Thunder Bay in 2018, 27% higher than in Ontario (2,621) and virtually the same (less than 1% lower) as Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 1,545 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Thunder Bay, 72% higher than Ontario (899) and 35% higher than Canada overall (1,143).
- Over half of victims of violent crime were female in Thunder Bay (54%), Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Thunder Bay declined by 15%, similar to the decline seen in Ontario (-14%) and Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Thunder Bay increased by 37%, while there was a decline in Ontario (-11%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women in Thunder Bay between 2009 and 2018 declined to a larger extent than violent crime against boys and men (-28% versus -21%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was notably higher in Thunder Bay (8.0 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 Thunder Bay decreased by 39%, while there was an increase in Ontario (+10%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 373 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Thunder Bay in 2018, 53% higher than Ontario (243) and 16% higher than Canada (323).
The large majority (84%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Thunder Bay were female, slightly higher than in Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 2.0% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Thunder Bay between 2009 and 2018, lower than in Ontario (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Thunder Bay had 8 homicides—a rate of 6.38 per 100,000 population—notably higher than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
Of the 8 homicide victims in Thunder Bay, 3 were female (38%). This was a higher proportion than in Ontario (27%) and Canada (25%).
The number of homicides in Thunder Bay increased from no victims in 2008 to 8 victims 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, Thunder Bay, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Thunder Bay	Ontario	Canada	Thunder Bay	Ontario	Canada
	index
1998	115	85	98	137	107	127
1999	114	83	99	115	96	116
2000	97	85	98	121	91	110
2001	108	85	97	111	87	108
2002	90	82	96	97	85	107
2003	95	81	98	110	84	110
2004	100	79	96	113	78	107
2005	118	83	99	107	74	102
2006	125	87	100	106	75	100
2007	130	86	98	103	70	94
2008	117	82	95	103	67	89
2009	138	82	94	103	64	85
2010	139	78	89	101	61	81
2011	124	73	86	99	57	75
2012	119	70	82	77	55	73
2013	113	62	74	70	49	67
2014	138	58	71	72	47	65
2015	120	60	75	66	48	68
2016	124	65	77	69	49	70
2017	142	70	81	66	51	71
2018	160	73	82	71	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, Thunder Bay, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Thunder Bay	Ontario	Canada	Thunder Bay	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	1,823	937	1,206	1,461	940	1,202
2010	1,858	917	1,209	1,486	913	1,162
2011	1,755	872	1,124	1,463	859	1,087
2012	1,613	824	1,079	1,250	809	1,048
2013	1,634	771	1,004	1,403	726	947
2014	1,669	721	952	1,248	675	898
2015	1,529	729	970	1,214	687	914
2016	1,533	741	978	1,279	708	910
2017	1,505	790	1,019	1,257	739	926
2018	1,321	834	1,048	1,155	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), Thunder Bay, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Thunder Bay	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	5,900	3,193	4,122
2010	5,530	2,968	3,838
2011	5,077	2,760	3,536
2012	4,111	2,648	3,438
2013	3,600	2,365	3,154
2014	3,708	2,281	3,100
2015	3,534	2,290	3,231
2016	3,367	2,315	3,239
2017	3,184	2,428	3,266
2018	3,321	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 Thunder Bay, 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), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Thunder Bay and Ontario and Percent difference between Thunder Bay and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Thunder Bay	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Thunder Bay and Ontario	Percent difference between Thunder Bay and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Thunder Bay and Ontario	Percent difference between Thunder Bay and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	5,778	4,113	5,488	40	5
Total violent crime	1,545	899	1,143	72	35
Violations causing death and attempted murder	15	5	4	217	257
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	116	91	101	28	15
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	897	500	649	80	38
Other violent offences	516	303	389	70	32
Total property crime	3,321	2,621	3,339	27	-0.5
Breaking and entering	484	319	431	52	12
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	1,787	1,506	1,720	19	4
Fraud	406	381	402	7	1
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	589	372	699	58	-16
Other property crime offences	55	43	86	27	-36
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	912	593	1,006	54	-9
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	175	199	339	-12	-48
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	148	92	178	61	-16
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	2	6	12	-62	-80
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	2	0.6	0.7	328	255
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.4	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	22	99	148	-77	-85
Total drug offences	117	146	225	-20	-48
Total other federal statute offences	17	29	70	-43	-76
Total all offences	6,087	4,487	6,123	36	-0.6
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 Thunder Bay, 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), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Thunder Bay		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	1,321	1,155	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	13	18	3	7	2	6
Homicide	5	8	1	3	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	2	2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	6	8	1	4	1	3
Sexual offences	208	18	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	195	16	130	17	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	3	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	190	16	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	13	2	22	5	36	7
Assaults	854	930	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	851	847	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	17	45	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	195	265	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	638	537	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	3	77	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	0	6	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	247	190	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	2	3	2	6	2	6
Robbery	57	96	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	49	0	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	2	5	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	46	19	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	60	56	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	8	0	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	13	6	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	10	3	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 Thunder Bay, 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), Thunder Bay, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Thunder Bay		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	5,695	4,542	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	4,164	3,321	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	607	484	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	53	42	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	253	202	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	33	26	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	1,955	1,559	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	493	393	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	3	2	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	13	10	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	738	589	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	16	13	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	1,143	912	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	39	31	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	6	5	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	1,030	822	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	62	49	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	220	175	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	186	148	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	3	2	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	3	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	28	22	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	147	117	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	21	17	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	2	2	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	16	13	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	3	2	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 Thunder Bay, 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	2,180	1,815	-4	6,170	5,136	-0.3	10,350	8,616	0.4
2009	2,176	1,815	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.	7,073	5,900	15	11,064	9,230	7
2010	2,036	1,698	-6	6,631	5,530	-6	10,526	8,778	-5
2011	1,985	1,653	-3	6,095	5,077	-8	9,978	8,311	-5
2012	1,778	1,478	-11	4,946	4,111	-19	8,504	7,068	-15
2013	1,937	1,583	7	4,406	3,600	-12	7,872	6,432	-9
2014	1,848	1,510	-5	4,539	3,708	3	7,850	6,413	-0.3
2015	1,725	1,414	-6	4,310	3,534	-5	7,432	6,093	-5
2016	1,768	1,447	2	4,113	3,367	-5	7,546	6,177	1
2017	1,907	1,553	7	3,910	3,184	-5	7,530	6,131	-0.7
2018	1,937	1,545	-0.5	4,164	3,321	4	7,244	5,778	-6
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	-11	-15	Note ...: not applicable	-33	-35	Note ...: not applicable	-30	-33	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable 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: 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
Thunder Bay, Ontario

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

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