Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2013

Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Population, Total Crime
Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using number, Index, Percent change 2012 to 2013 and Percent change 2003 to 2013 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3 Population Total Crime
Severity Index		 Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2012 to 2013 percent change 2003 to 2013 index percent change 2012 to 2013 index percent change 2012 to 2013
St. John’s 202,602 78.4 -4 -7 79.5 9 77.8 -8
Halifax 408,714 68.6 -9 -43 84.8 -10 62.6 -9
MonctonNote 4 143,388 66.1 -16 -31 66.5 -8 65.8 -18
Saint John 146,107 60.4 -10 -35 59.5 -12 60.6 -9
SaguenayNote 5 167,775 59.9 -16 0 57.2 -21 60.7 -14
Québec 785,838 46.5 -10 -36 48.3 -7 45.7 -10
Sherbrooke 194,678 58.4 -5 -40 45.3 -10 63.0 -3
Trois-Rivières 154,351 60.3 -7 -21 51.4 14 63.3 -12
Montréal 3,986,346 65.9 -12 -38 79.5 -10 60.9 -13
GatineauNote 6 323,084 56.9 -13 -39 65.1 -8 53.8 -15
OttawaNote 7, Note 8 974,307 52.1 -10 -41 56.1 -4 50.5 -13
Kingston 163,969 54.6 -6 -36 48.6 -9 56.7 -5
PeterboroughNote 4 121,576 54.4 -14 -32 57.7 -13 53.0 -15
Toronto 5,905,031 47.1 -10 -39 68.2 -14 39.4 -8
Hamilton 734,389 55.1 -10 -42 59.9 -4 53.3 -11
St. Catharines–Niagara 445,351 57.5 -10 -38 49.3 -9 60.4 -11
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 534,762 56.8 -4 -27 57.0 -8 56.6 -3
BrantfordNote 4 142,084 83.7 -9 -27 73.9 9 87.2 -13
GuelphNote 4 128,573 43.0 -16 -28 42.5 -21 43.1 -14
London 500,949 67.2 -11 -31 56.9 -12 70.8 -10
Windsor 330,108 61.3 -9 -34 61.9 -8 60.9 -9
BarrieNote 4 207,972 42.8 -14 -45 38.6 -13 44.3 -14
Greater Sudbury 164,983 66.9 -6 -25 66.3 -11 67.0 -4
Thunder Bay 121,763 80.6 -9 -24 110.9 -7 69.4 -10
Winnipeg 802,273 83.2 -15 -50 119.9 -19 69.6 -13
Regina 234,426 109.3 -7 -51 105.8 -4 110.4 -8
Saskatoon 299,190 99.1 -7 -55 109.9 -13 95.0 -5
Calgary 1,375,123 60.4 -1 -41 62.0 1 59.7 -2
Edmonton 1,290,932 84.5 0 -40 89.7 -6 82.4 3
KelownaNote 4 185,168 92.6 -12 -35 67.1 -22 101.6 -9
Abbotsford–Mission 177,298 80.7 -5 -52 70.7 -13 84.2 -2
Vancouver 2,443,887 90.3 -5 -44 83.6 -12 92.5 -2
Victoria 357,416 59.1 -17 -48 54.4 -17 60.7 -17
Canada 35,158,304 68.7 -9 -36 73.7 -10 66.8 -8
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.

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.

Moncton, Peterborough, Brantford, Guelph, Barrie and Kelowna became CMAs in 2006. Therefore, the percent change in Total Crime Severity Index for these CMAs is calculated from 2006 to 2013.

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Note 5.

With the release of 2013 data, revised population estimates at the respondent level were applied back to and including 2011. This resulted in boundary changes for the CMA of Saguenay. Crime data for these years for this respondent have therefore been revised.

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

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

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Note 8.

Ottawa numbers also include child pornography incidents reported by the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre of the RCMP which is located in the City of Ottawa. The Centre responds to Internet-facilitated sexual abuse cases nationally. Therefore, while the incidents are detected by the RCMP Centre located in Ottawa and appear in Ottawa’s crime statistics, the incidents themselves or the offenders are not limited to the city of Ottawa.

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Note: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with minor offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some minor offences using municipal by-laws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes by census metropolitan area are available beginning in 1998. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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