Table 3
Victims of violent crime committed with knife, by selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2008
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| Census metropolitan area1, 2, 3 | Robbery with a knife4 | Assault5 with a knife4 | Total victims of violent crime with a knife4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | percent of total robberies | number | percent of total assaults | number | percent of total victims | |
| 500,000 and over population | ||||||
| Winnipeg | 399 | 24.4 | 523 | 9.2 | 1,015 | 10.2 |
| Edmonton | 430 | 26.8 | 811 | 9.5 | 1,361 | 9.8 |
| Calgary | 234 | 18.6 | 476 | 8.5 | 804 | 8.5 |
| Vancouver | 733 | 23.3 | 1,136 | 6.8 | 2,098 | 7.3 |
| Ottawa6 | 157 | 21.7 | 259 | 7.8 | 469 | 7.2 |
| Montréal | 927 | 16.6 | 1,623 | 7.5 | 2,878 | 7.0 |
| Toronto7 | 847 | 12.4 | 2,001 | 8.1 | 3,310 | 6.7 |
| Hamilton7 | 154 | 21.8 | 220 | 6.0 | 412 | 6.1 |
| Kitchener | 39 | 17.6 | 164 | 7.1 | 250 | 5.9 |
| Québec | 57 | 24.3 | 118 | 5.3 | 201 | 4.6 |
| 100,000 to less than 500,000 population | ||||||
| Regina | 95 | 23.4 | 228 | 10.0 | 349 | 10.0 |
| Saskatoon | 115 | 25.8 | 251 | 9.2 | 401 | 8.7 |
| Greater Sudbury | 33 | 32.0 | 87 | 8.2 | 147 | 8.6 |
| Thunder Bay | 39 | 27.7 | 88 | 7.1 | 139 | 7.3 |
| St. Catharines-Niagara | 105 | 32.3 | 159 | 7.9 | 293 | 6.8 |
| London | 66 | 21.3 | 168 | 6.0 | 293 | 6.7 |
| Sherbrooke | 26 | 32.5 | 56 | 8.7 | 96 | 6.5 |
| Trois-Rivières | 18 | 24.7 | 52 | 8.1 | 79 | 6.5 |
| Peterborough | 19 | 31.7 | 35 | 5.6 | 67 | 6.3 |
| Halifax | 82 | 22.3 | 218 | 6.9 | 371 | 6.1 |
| Abbotsford-Mission | 29 | 18.7 | 78 | 5.9 | 120 | 5.9 |
| Windsor | 50 | 18.7 | 94 | 6.9 | 171 | 5.6 |
| Guelph | 5 | 15.6 | 36 | 6.2 | 47 | 5.4 |
| Moncton | 11 | 35.5 | 50 | 5.2 | 78 | 5.3 |
| Victoria | 48 | 24.7 | 124 | 5.5 | 184 | 5.2 |
| St. John's | 38 | 54.3 | 73 | 4.9 | 124 | 5.1 |
| Brantford | 18 | 27.3 | 59 | 5.7 | 88 | 5.1 |
| Gatineau8 | 30 | 18.6 | 111 | 5.4 | 161 | 4.3 |
| Saint John | 3 | 9.7 | 57 | 5.5 | 76 | 4.3 |
| Barrie | 10 | 19.6 | 33 | 4.4 | 49 | 4.1 |
| Saguenay | 4 | 12.9 | 27 | 3.7 | 45 | 2.9 |
| Kingston | 5 | 12.5 | 29 | 3.7 | 41 | 2.4 |
| Canada | 5,489 | 19.4 | 14,880 | 6.6 | 23,481 | 6.2 |
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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. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. 2.CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. 3. Excludes the CMAs of Oshawa and Kelowna. 4. Includes all piercing and cutting instruments in addition to knives, e.g. broken bottle, screwdriver, scissors. 5. Includes assault (level 1), assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3). 6. Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA. 7. Excludes data from the Halton Regional Police Service and the Durham Regional Police Service due to the incongruity between police service jurisdictional boundaries and CMA boundaries. 8. Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA. Note: Data reflect victim counts from the UCR2 survey and, in total, represent 98% of the population of Canada. Coverage for each CMA is virtually 100% except for the following: Winnipeg (99%), Saskatoon (99%), Brantford (95%), Windsor (91%), Toronto (91%), Hamilton (75%) and Barrie (70%). Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. |
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