Table 6
Victims of violent crime, by type of weapon, by census metropolitan area, 2012

Table 6
Victims of violent crime, by type of weapon, by census metropolitan area, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of violent crime. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, No weapon, Unknown and Total , calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3 Firearm Other weaponNote 4 No weaponNote 5 Unknown Total
number percent rate number percent number percent number percent number percent
Halifax 171 4.1 41.4 647 15.4 3,377 80.5 0 ... 4,195 100
Moncton 54 2.6 38.5 262 12.5 1,775 84.9 33 ... 2,124 100
Saskatoon 109 2.8 38.0 897 23.1 2,883 74.1 90 ... 3,979 100
HamiltonNote 6 181 3.4 33.3 866 16.2 4,294 80.4 32 ... 5,373 100
Winnipeg 243 2.6 30.1 2,329 25.0 6,748 72.4 423 ... 9,743 100
Vancouver 686 2.8 27.8 5,253 21.8 18,181 75.4 449 ... 24,569 100
Edmonton 270 2.0 22.0 2,490 18.5 10,712 79.5 417 ... 13,889 100
Calgary 273 3.2 20.8 1,700 20.2 6,458 76.6 675 ... 9,106 100
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 108 2.3 20.1 789 17.0 3,753 80.7 109 ... 4,759 100
TorontoNote 7 1,057 2.5 19.7 7,715 17.9 34,368 79.7 798 ... 43,938 100
Regina 45 1.5 19.7 734 25.1 2,144 73.3 83 ... 3,006 100
Saint John 28 1.5 19.0 199 10.5 1,671 88.0 82 ... 1,980 100
London 93 2.5 18.5 673 18.4 2,897 79.1 74 ... 3,737 100
Abbotsford-Mission 31 2.1 17.3 294 19.8 1,161 78.1 17 ... 1,503 100
Brantford 23 1.6 17.1 182 12.4 1,263 86.0 11 ... 1,479 100
Windsor 49 1.6 16.1 445 14.8 2,519 83.6 5 ... 3,018 100
OttawaNote 8 142 2.6 14.8 992 17.9 4,416 79.6 34 ... 5,584 100
Peterborough 18 1.9 14.8 177 18.7 750 79.4 12 ... 957 100
Kelowna 26 1.0 14.6 355 14.3 2,102 84.7 31 ... 2,514 100
St. Catharines-Niagara 59 1.8 13.2 504 15.0 2,792 83.2 22 ... 3,377 100
Guelph 13 1.2 10.2 106 9.8 960 89.0 1 ... 1,080 100
Barrie 17 1.7 8.4 163 16.2 826 82.1 20 ... 1,026 100
Victoria 30 0.9 8.3 484 14.7 2,783 84.4 32 ... 3,329 100
Kingston 12 0.9 7.4 178 13.7 1,108 85.4 15 ... 1,313 100
Thunder Bay 8 0.5 6.6 226 13.3 1,466 86.2 26 ... 1,726 100
Greater Sudbury 10 0.7 6.1 287 20.0 1,136 79.3 1 ... 1,434 100
St. John's 7 0.3 3.7 375 16.9 1,831 82.7 102 ... 2,315 100
Total, census metropolitan areasNote 9 3,914 2.3 20.8 30,139 18.5 128,838 79.2 3,677 ... 166,279 100
Non-census metropolitan areas 1,661 1.4 21.0 17,450 14.7 99,302 83.7 3,950 ... 122,652 100
Total 5,575 1.9 20.9 47,589 16.9 228,140 81.2 7,627 ... 288,931 100
... not applicable
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.

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Note 2.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3.

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 4.

Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire.

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Note 5.

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 6.

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.

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Note 7.

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.

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Note 8.

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

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Note 9.

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as 6% of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service falls outside the boundaries of a CMA.

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Note: Weapon is based on the most serious weapon present in the incident. Excludes Quebec due to the large proportion of incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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