Table 8
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 8
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3), Robbery, Breaking and entering and Motor vehicle theft, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 8 Note 1 Table 8 Note 2 Table 8 Note 3 HomicideTable 8 Note 4 Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) Robbery Breaking and entering Motor vehicle theft
number rate rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016
St. John's 4 1.93 69 -7 87 20 602 18 118 12
Halifax 12 2.82 75 -9 45 -23 239 -16 90 -5
Moncton 1 0.64 43 -2 64 62 561 -3 147 13
Saint John 3 2.35 41 -46 48 48 231 -8 58 -15
Saguenay 2 1.20 53 -10 16 -15 338 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 117 -9
Québec 1 0.12 47 3 19 13 319 -1 71 -2
Sherbrooke 2 1.00 58 15 19 -23 286 -12 54 -2
Trois-Rivières 0 0.00 54 1 12 -66 336 -11 85 -25
Montréal 42 1.02 46 11 74 -10 386 -5 168 -11
GatineauTable 8 Note 5 3 0.91 48 9 32 44 320 5 71 -28
OttawaTable 8 Note 6 24 2.37 59 14 50 -13 270 16 88 -1
Kingston 0 0.00 60 -7 18 -17 395 19 72 -9
Peterborough 2 1.62 97 10 41 -15 304 -25 57 -1
Toronto 96 1.55 44 -2 83 10 205 -9 113 4
Hamilton 12 1.58 64 6 70 21 308 5 217 -1
St. Catharines–Niagara 1 0.22 53 -7 31 -11 373 -11 160 5
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 6 1.09 51 -12 51 6 358 -11 137 -3
Brantford 4 2.73 68 -12 68 14 588 12 454 -2
Guelph 1 0.76 64 33 22 -8 347 16 119 49
London 8 1.55 46 10 55 4 389 9 195 -12
Windsor 3 0.90 52 15 61 10 506 23 199 14
Barrie 2 0.92 54 14 32 28 200 -8 68 -12
Greater Sudbury 0 0.00 61 1 48 10 454 20 101 -17
Thunder Bay 8 6.64 85 7 118 -21 492 18 158 1
Winnipeg 25 3.14 98 14 229 27 682 14 315 3
Regina 8 3.23 59 -4 118 18 760 7 523 17
Saskatoon 10 3.12 95 44 116 -11 791 -3 453 16
Calgary 33 2.24 44 -14 62 -24 576 -10 535 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Edmonton 47 3.39 72 -8 103 -8 582 -4 483 10
Kelowna 5 2.54 34 -18 41 -28 620 -3 316 -11
Abbotsford–Mission 6 3.22 42 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 64 -36 577 -19 493 -1
Vancouver 41 1.61 44 2 78 -24 678 -1 312 -7
Victoria 1 0.27 64 7 37 -15 326 -20 108 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Canada 611 1.68 58 -1 60 -3 439 -2 217 -1
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

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of homicide are not calculated.

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 252-0051). Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan areas are available beginning in 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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