Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2015

Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2015
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 2014 to 2015 and percent change in rate 2005 to 2015 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 2014 to 2015 percent change in rate 2005 to 2015 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015
St. John's 5,885 3 -10 1,398 12 3,740 1 747 -1 152 -14
Halifax 4,819 -9 -47 1,095 -7 2,939 -10 784 -5 258 -20
MonctonNote 5 6,771 21 Note ...: not applicable 1,375 6 4,271 30 1,125 12 191 -28
Saint JohnNote 5 4,693 -2 Note ...: not applicable 1,445 2 2,523 -3 725 -4 192 -1
Saguenay 3,194 -1 -14 1,004 -6 1,846 8 344 -25 247 -5
Québec 2,959 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -34 884 2 1,759 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 316 -1 213 -12
Sherbrooke 3,204 -3 -36 632 -14 1,819 -2 754 3 321 -14
Trois-Rivières 3,417 -2 -28 944 8 1,951 -7 521 3 309 -1
Montréal 3,572 -4 -41 889 1 2,268 -5 416 -8 200 -6
GatineauNote 6 3,725 1 -34 1,105 3 1,927 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 693 2 449 -7
OttawaNote 7 3,329 -2 -41 616 -1 2,291 -3 421 -3 149 -7
Kingston 4,793 -4 -25 822 -11 3,427 -1 545 -7 89 -33
PeterboroughNote 8 4,287 -4 -33 753 -2 2,734 -8 800 10 157 -1
Toronto 2,892 2 -34 735 3 1,884 2 273 3 177 -9
Hamilton 3,483 -2 -37 699 -9 2,383 1 402 -4 234 -15
St. Catharines–Niagara 3,544 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -37 566 -7 2,590 3 389 -8 129 -11
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 4,558 6 -13 791 2 3,087 7 680 8 275 -12
BrantfordNote 8 5,731 2 -33 1,260 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 3,848 3 623 -2 243 -19
GuelphNote 8 3,811 1 -15 665 -1 2,531 -2 615 21 215 -7
London 5,305 -3 -24 771 1 3,394 -4 1,140 -2 209 -14
Windsor 4,470 5 -31 892 6 3,040 5 537 4 140 -1
BarrieNote 8 3,581 -5 -44 721 -6 2,175 -4 685 -6 172 -18
Greater Sudbury 4,319 -5 -23 941 -2 2,576 -10 802 13 235 -1
Thunder Bay 6,078 -6 -30 1,417 -7 3,554 -5 1,106 -8 104 -13
Winnipeg 5,738 6 -49 1,127 5 3,957 7 654 2 132 -7
Regina 8,146 3 -38 1,123 -4 4,956 6 2,067 1 189 -13
Saskatoon 8,427 2 -36 1,238 -6 5,013 6 2,177 -3 235 13
Calgary 5,279 25 -20 779 5 4,149 35 351 -14 115 -13
Edmonton 7,625 12 -26 1,174 7 4,671 15 1,780 8 269 -5
KelownaNote 8 8,170 10 -29 1,078 4 5,348 12 1,744 10 689 -17
Abbotsford–Mission 7,452 15 -37 1,229 10 5,193 20 1,030 2 251 -19
Vancouver 7,407 1 -31 1,043 9 5,072 -3 1,293 9 414 -4
Victoria 6,059 10 -38 1,206 11 3,896 8 956 15 350 -13
Canada 5,198 3 -29 1,062 2 3,220 4 916 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 150 -3
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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.

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, 2014 and 2015 data for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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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.

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 2015.

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Note: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 252-0051). Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some 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 CMA are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent 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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