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Table 7
Crime rate and Crime Severity Index values, census metropolitan areas, 2007

Crime rate and Crime Severity Index values, census metropolitan areas, 2007
	Total		Violent		Non-violent
	Crime rate ¹	Crime Severity Index	Crime rate	Crime Severity Index	Crime rate ²	Crime Severity Index
Largest census metropolitan areas
Winnipeg	9,682	153.2	1,369	183.4	8,313	141.6
Edmonton	9,524	131.3	1,343	131.7	8,181	131.1
Vancouver	9,011	128.5	1,478	128.6	7,533	128.5
Montréal	5,581	94.3	1,088	108.1	4,492	88.9
Calgary	6,166	91.8	876	92.8	5,290	91.5
Hamilton	6,824	83.5	1,442	96.7	5,382	78.4
Ottawa	5,399	76.6	890	77.4	4,509	76.2
Québec	4,439	66.4	982	56.7	3,457	70.2
Toronto	4,278	65.6	1,036	95.0	3,243	54.2
Smaller census metropolitan areas
Regina	11,851	189.0	1,871	185.1	9,980	190.5
Saskatoon	11,623	158.6	2,115	212.2	9,507	138.0
Abbotsford	10,185	142.9	1,492	103.3	8,693	158.2
Thunder Bay	8,876	115.6	1,966	140.2	6,910	106.1
Victoria	9,213	109.2	1,408	81.2	7,805	120.0
Saint John	8,337	106.5	2,258	108.8	6,079	105.6
Halifax	8,000	106.3	1,873	125.3	6,128	99.0
St. John's	7,363	100.4	1,561	76.4	5,802	109.6
London	7,187	90.4	1,009	68.6	6,177	98.7
Windsor	6,119	82.5	1,032	67.1	5,086	88.4
Gatineau	5,689	81.8	1,265	69.6	4,423	86.5
St. Catharines-Niagara	5,614	81.4	986	64.6	4,628	87.9
Greater Sudbury	5,539	79.4	1,143	91.7	4,396	74.6
Sherbrooke	4,785	74.7	827	65.3	3,959	78.3
Kingston	5,931	72.7	1,282	62.9	4,649	76.4
Trois-Rivières	4,464	69.1	882	62.5	3,582	71.6
Kitchener	4,857	68.6	779	64.5	4,078	70.2
Saguenay	4,364	66.1	1,155	69.3	3,209	64.8

The crime rate consists of all Criminal Code offences excluding traffic. It also excludes drug offences and all federal statutes.

The non-violent crime rate includes only property and other Criminal Code offences.

Source(s):

Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Aggregated Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.