Table 4
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2012

Table 4
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2012
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 and percent change 2011 to 2012 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 2011 to 2012 index percent change 2011 to 2012 index percent change 2011 to 2012
St. John’s 190,560 86.3 -5 77.3 3 89.4 -8
Halifax 413,512 74.3 -15 92.4 -18 67.5 -13
Moncton 140,146 79.3 15 73.4 2 81.3 20
Saint JohnNote 4 147,046 67.1 -3 68.0 -11 66.7 0
Saguenay 146,048 71.1 -3 79.4 25 68.0 -11
Québec 767,789 47.8 -11 50.8 2 46.6 -15
Sherbrooke 193,352 59.6 -1 49.7 -1 63.0 -1
Trois-Rivières 151,340 65.8 -7 46.4 -8 72.7 -7
MontréalNote 5 3,965,452 75.1 -6 87.8 -10 70.3 -5
GatineauNote 6 315,817 65.9 2 71.4 -1 63.7 3
OttawaNote 7, Note 8 956,719 57.0 -2 58.2 -6 56.5 -1
Kingston 162,321 58.3 -2 53.7 10 59.8 -6
Peterborough 121,282 63.4 -1 66.2 7 62.3 -3
Toronto 5,885,871 52.1 -6 78.4 -5 42.5 -6
Hamilton 744,257 60.1 -6 62.5 -15 59.1 -2
St. Catharines–Niagara 446,676 63.9 5 54.1 12 67.3 3
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 536,793 58.3 -8 60.9 -14 57.3 -5
Brantford 141,128 92.2 1 67.6 -23 101.0 9
Guelph 127,068 50.5 6 53.8 7 49.2 5
London 502,384 74.5 -5 64.1 -9 78.1 -4
Windsor 331,671 66.5 7 66.4 12 66.4 5
Barrie 202,118 51.3 -5 46.1 1 53.1 -6
Greater Sudbury 163,880 71.7 -10 75.4 -4 70.2 -12
Thunder Bay 120,405 88.0 -17 118.8 -4 76.5 -22
WinnipegNote 4 806,821 96.1 -5 145.4 -9 78.0 -2
Regina 228,599 116.0 -6 110.1 -9 117.9 -5
Saskatoon 288,697 107.1 -7 126.4 -3 99.8 -8
Calgary 1,311,481 60.5 -7 61.2 -12 60.1 -5
Edmonton 1,229,672 85.0 -3 95.8 -10 80.9 -1
Kelowna 183,755 104.1 6 81.8 -6 111.9 9
Abbotsford–Mission 178,869 83.4 -6 79.7 8 84.6 -10
Vancouver 2,464,189 92.7 -1 92.6 -3 92.5 -1
Victoria 363,041 69.6 -2 63.7 -11 71.6 1
Canada 34,880,491 75.0 -3 81.4 -5 72.5 -3
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.

Note 2.

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

Note 3.

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

Note 4.

With the release of 2012 data, revised population estimates at the respondent level were applied back to and including 2004. This resulted in boundary changes for the CMA of Saint John for 2005 to 2011 and for Winnipeg for 2011. Crime data for these years for these respondents have therefore been revised.

Note 5.

In 2012, it was discovered that the Montréal Police Service had been incorrectly applying the agreed upon definition for reporting child pornography incidents to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. As such, the number of violations has been revised for the years 2008 to 2011.

Note 6.

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

Note 7.

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

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.

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 chose 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 from 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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