Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2013

Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Census
metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime, Property crime, Other Criminal Code offences and Drug offences, calculated using rate, Percent change in rate 2012 to 2013 and Percent change in rate 2003 to 2013 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3		 Total crime (crime rate)Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change in rate 2012 to 2013 percent change in rate 2003 to 2013 rate percent change in rate 2012 to 2013 rate percent change in rate 2012 to 2013 rate percent change in rate 2012 to 2013 rate percent change in rate 2012 to 2013
St. John’s 6,464 -3 0 1,498 -7 4,226 1 741 -13 256 -19
Halifax 5,326 -10 -43 1,111 -5 3,397 -11 818 -10 310 -10
MonctonNote 5 5,931 -15 -25 1,306 -19 3,527 -16 1,098 -5 245 -8
Saint John 4,986 -11 -34 1,312 -14 2,908 -10 766 -10 251 2
SaguenayNote 6 3,566 -12 -14 1,023 -11 1,877 -15 666 -6 219 19
Québec 3,257 -6 -31 915 1 1,986 -11 356 9 225 -1
Sherbrooke 3,716 -8 -42 705 -10 2,223 -7 788 -8 390 -11
Trois-Rivières 3,875 -6 -22 849 9 2,260 -15 766 11 355 4
Montréal 4,072 -11 -35 903 -7 2,657 -13 512 -7 218 3
GatineauNote 7 3,916 -14 -34 1,099 -12 2,212 -17 605 -6 457 15
OttawaNote 8, Note 9 3,615 -12 -42 672 5 2,442 -17 500 -4 184 0
Kingston 4,848 -5 -27 1,011 -7 3,250 -7 587 8 170 0
PeterboroughNote 5 4,489 -3 -30 823 2 2,899 -8 768 12 175 -13
Toronto 2,941 -7 -42 749 -8 1,936 -7 256 -1 192 -12
Hamilton 3,786 -12 -41 758 -13 2,623 -13 405 -3 280 -3
St. Catharines–Niagara 3,992 -12 -36 729 -12 2,817 -14 446 -1 174 0
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 4,336 -6 -22 847 -9 2,897 -6 592 -2 316 -2
BrantfordNote 5 6,242 -10 -27 1,219 -8 4,318 -11 705 -8 325 -1
GuelphNote 5 3,557 -14 -20 740 -15 2,349 -15 468 -4 261 2
London 5,225 -8 -25 805 -10 3,332 -9 1,087 -5 269 1
Windsor 4,399 -8 -39 895 -9 2,967 -9 537 -3 185 -8
BarrieNote 5 3,712 -15 -42 706 -11 2,304 -17 702 -11 252 -13
Greater Sudbury 4,685 -7 -25 983 -4 2,955 -9 746 -2 337 14
Thunder Bay 6,392 -10 -24 1,566 6 3,574 -13 1,252 -16 128 0
Winnipeg 5,368 -16 -55 1,104 -14 3,587 -17 676 -7 144 11
Regina 8,069 -8 -46 1,188 -13 4,715 -6 2,166 -11 441 -8
Saskatoon 7,958 -6 -47 1,312 -11 4,459 -5 2,188 -7 252 3
Calgary 4,268 -2 -40 710 -4 3,157 -1 401 -5 129 -10
Edmonton 6,743 0 -34 1,130 -6 4,054 4 1,560 -3 261 8
KelownaNote 5 7,680 -13 -33 1,201 -21 4,901 -13 1,577 -7 885 42
Abbotsford–Mission 6,109 -2 -51 1,085 -5 4,096 -1 928 -5 418 -11
Vancouver 6,897 -4 -40 1,023 -11 4,642 -3 1,232 -2 464 5
Victoria 5,408 -12 -47 1,059 -8 3,551 -15 798 2 417 -8
Canada 5,190 -8 -33 1,092 -9 3,146 -8 952 -5 310 -2
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.

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 5 for a list of offences included in the total violent crime, total property crime and total other crime categories.

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Note 5.

Moncton, Peterborough, Brantford, Guelph, Barrie and Kelowna became CMAs in 2006. Therefore, the percent change in total crime rate for these CMAs is calculated from 2006 to 2013.

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Note 6.

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 7.

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

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Note 8.

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

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Note 9.

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. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan area are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percentage changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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