Description for chart 1
Police-reported crime rates, Canada, 1962 to 2010

This is a line chart.
There are in total 13 categories in the horizontal axis.
The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 14,000.
There are 4 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population".
The units of the horizontal axis are years, from "1962" to "2010".
The title of series 1 is "Total crime rate".
The title of series 2 is "Violent crime rate".
The title of series 3 is "Property crime rate".
The title of series 4 is "Other Criminal Code crime rate".

Chart 1
Police-reported crime rates, Canada, 1962 to 2010
Table summary
 This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rates.
The information is grouped by RHRH, RHRH appearing as row headers,
Total crime rate, Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Other Criminal Code crime rate appearing as column headers,
calculated using rate per 100,000 population as a unit of measure.
Year Total crime rate Violent crime rate Property crime rate Other Criminal Code crime rate
rate per 100,000 population
1962 2,771 221 1,891 659
1963 3,022 249 2,047 726
1964 3,245 284 2,146 815
1965 3,199 299 2,091 809
1966 3,511 347 2,258 907
1967 3,850 381 2,484 985
1968 4,336 423 2,826 1,087
1969 4,737 453 3,120 1,164
1970 5,212 481 3,515 1,217
1971 5,311 492 3,649 1,170
1972 5,355 497 3,634 1,224
1973 5,773 524 3,704 1,546
1974 6,388 553 4,151 1,684
1975 6,852 585 4,498 1,769
1976 6,984 584 4,533 1,867
1977 6,971 572 4,466 1,933
1978 7,154 580 4,579 1,995
1979 7,666 610 4,903 2,153
1980 8,343 636 5,444 2,263
1981 8,736 654 5,759 2,322
1982 8,773 671 5,840 2,262
1983 8,470 679 5,608 2,182
1984 8,387 701 5,501 2,185
1985 8,413 735 5,451 2,227
1986 8,727 785 5,550 2,392
1987 8,957 829 5,553 2,575
1988 8,919 868 5,439 2,613
1989 8,892 911 5,289 2,692
1990 9,485 973 5,612 2,900
1991 10,342 1,059 6,160 3,122
1992 10,040 1,084 5,904 3,052
1993 9,538 1,082 5,575 2,881
1994 9,125 1,047 5,257 2,821
1995 9,008 1,009 5,292 2,707
1996 8,932 1,002 5,274 2,656
1997 8,475 993 4,880 2,603
1998 8,093 995 4,569 2,529
1999 7,695 971 4,276 2,449
2000 7,610 996 4,081 2,534
2001 7,592 995 4,004 2,593
2002 7,516 980 3,976 2,560
2003 7,773 978 4,125 2,670
2004 7,601 957 3,976 2,668
2005 7,326 962 3,744 2,620
2006 7,245 968 3,604 2,673
2007 6,899 951 3,331 2,617
2008 6,618 936 3,089 2,593
2009 6,445 924 2,997 2,525
2010 5,953 899 2,631 2,423
Note: Information presented in this graph represents data from the UCR Aggregate (UCR1) Survey and allow for historical comparisons to be made back to 1962. Data from 1998 to present will differ slightly from information presented in Table 1a which are based upon the new UCR2 Survey due to changes in definitions of certain crime categories.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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