Table 3 
Counts and rates of homicides, by census metropolitan area1, 2012 to 2022 

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Counts and rates of homicides, by census metropolitan area, 2012 to 2022
  2022 2022 2022 2021 2021 Difference from 2021 Difference from 2021 Average from 2012 to 2021 Average from 2012 to 2021
  count rate2 population count rate2 number % change in rate count rate2
Canada 874 2.25 38,929,902 796 2.08 78 7.8 640 1.75
CMA total 572 2.04 27,971,401 514 1.88 58 9.0 421 1.63
500,000 and over population                  
Toronto 136 2.06 6,595,271 119 1.85 17 11.7 101 1.65
Montréal 65 1.49 4,360,100 48 1.11 17 34.3 45 1.07
Vancouver 73 2.57 2,843,456 60 2.17 13 18.3 46 1.76
Calgary 29 1.80 1,608,725 22 1.41 7 27.8 29 1.96
Edmonton 36 2.37 1,521,339 51 3.44 -15 -31.1 40 2.93
Ottawa3 15 1.32 1,139,057 15 1.34 0 -1.8 12 1.19
Winnipeg 52 6.10 852,178 41 4.88 11 25.0 31 3.80
Québec 5 0.60 839,568 5 0.60 0 -1.4 5 0.57
Hamilton 10 1.26 791,439 20 2.57 -10 -50.8 12 1.64
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 7 1.10 633,828 2 0.33 5 237.5 5 0.96
London 7 1.21 576,485 16 2.86 -9 -57.5 8 1.53
Oshawa 3 0.57 521,921 10 1.93 -7 -70.3 5 1.05
100,000 to less than 500,000 population                  
St.Catharines–Niagara 8 1.61 496,059 6 1.23 2 30.8 4 0.93
Halifax 10 2.08 480,523 11 2.39 -1 -13.0 8 1.91
Victoria 5 1.18 422,829 5 1.21 0 -2.2 4 0.96
Windsor 3 0.83 359,996 10 2.84 -7 -70.7 5 1.49
Saskatoon 16 4.55 351,595 8 2.32 8 95.9 9 2.90
Gatineau4 2 0.58 347,244 4 1.16 -2 -50.4 4 1.18
Barrie 4 1.47 271,717 2 0.75 2 95.1 2 0.91
Regina 8 2.98 268,809 15 5.66 -7 -47.4 9 3.70
Kelowna 8 3.42 234,220 4 1.76 4 94.6 4 1.71
Sherbrooke 0 0.00 213,572 2 0.95 -2 -100.0 1 0.65
St. John's 2 0.94 213,402 4 1.91 -2 -50.9 2 1.16
Abbotsford–Mission 10 4.71 212,314 4 1.92 6 145.1 4 2.24
Moncton 2 1.11 179,915 2 1.17 0 -4.7 2 1.20
Kingston 8 4.50 177,736 4 2.29 4 96.3 2 1.14
Saguenay 2 1.16 172,346 1 0.59 1 98.0 1 0.53
Greater Sudbury 10 5.83 171,446 6 3.55 4 64.4 2 1.26
Trois-Rivières 3 1.82 165,256 0 0.00 3 .. 1 0.89
Brantford 7 4.38 159,838 5 3.20 2 36.7 3 1.98
Guelph 2 1.33 149,942 0 0.00 2 .. 1 0.87
Saint John 2 1.48 135,189 1 0.76 1 95.9 2 1.50
Lethbridge 3 2.28 131,420 1 0.78 2 191.9 1 1.34
Peterborough 3 2.29 131,114 2 1.55 1 47.5 1 1.12
Thunder Bay 15 12.05 124,511 6 4.82 9 149.9 7 5.60
Belleville 1 0.85 117,041 2 1.73 -1 -50.7 2 2.29
Non-CMA total 302 2.76 10,958,501 282 2.60 20 5.8 219 2.06
..
not available for a specific reference period
Note(s):
There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada.
Source(s):
Homicide Survey (3315).

Table note 1

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. It is important to note that while official police-reported data on crime from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey use Statistics Canada's standard CMA names, the boundaries for the policing-based CMAs do not always fully align with the standard CMA geographic units used for disseminating information about the Census of Population.

Table note 2

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1 population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

Table note 3

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

Table note 4

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.
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