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Table 2 Hate crimes reported by police, by type of motivation, by 10 largest census metropolitan areas

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Hate crimes reported by police, by type of motivation, by 10 largest census metropolitan areas
  2008
  Race/ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation Other or unknown Total
  number rate¹
Vancouver 61 40 34 8 143 6.3
Hamilton 29 2 2 0 33 6.3
Kitchener 16 15 0 0 31 6.1
Ottawa2 26 19 3 3 51 5.6
Toronto 127 93 43 8 271 5.4
Calgary 43 8 6 0 57 5.3
Edmonton 20 3 4 0 27 3.4
Winnipeg 7 5 1 1 14 2.1
Québec 6 2 4 3 15 2.0
Montréal 18 5 7 8 38 1.0
Populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries and to reflect missing coverage from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police outside of British Columbia. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population.
Ottawa refers to the Ontario portion of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.