Table 8
Victims of violent crime where a firearm was present, by type of firearm, by census metropolitan area, 2012

Table 8
Victims of violent crime where a firearm was present, by type of firearm, by census metropolitan area, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of violent crime where a firearm was present. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Handgun, Rifle/shotgun, Other firearm, Firearm-like weapon and Total , calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2 Handgun Rifle/shotgun Other firearmNote 3 Firearm-like weaponNote 4 Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
TorontoNote 5 867 82.0 98 9.3 13 1.2 79 7.5 1,057 100
Moncton 43 79.6 3 5.6 1 1.9 7 13.0 54 100
Vancouver 543 79.2 33 4.8 20 2.9 90 13.1 686 100
Halifax 132 77.2 9 5.3 2 1.2 28 16.4 171 100
Victoria 23 76.7 1 3.3 0 0.0 6 20.0 30 100
OttawaNote 6 108 76.1 7 4.9 2 1.4 25 17.6 142 100
Windsor 36 73.5 2 4.1 1 2.0 10 20.4 49 100
Calgary 199 72.9 24 8.8 1 0.4 49 17.9 273 100
Guelph 9 69.2 1 7.7 0 0.0 3 23.1 13 100
HamiltonNote 7 122 67.4 12 6.6 7 3.9 40 22.1 181 100
St. Catharines-Niagara 35 59.3 6 10.2 2 3.4 16 27.1 59 100
Abbotsford-Mission 18 58.1 9 29.0 1 3.2 3 9.7 31 100
Kelowna 15 57.7 3 11.5 3 11.5 5 19.2 26 100
London 53 57.0 10 10.8 3 3.2 27 29.0 93 100
Brantford 13 56.5 0 0.0 0 0.0 10 43.5 23 100
Peterborough 10 55.6 3 16.7 0 0.0 5 27.8 18 100
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 57 52.8 0 0.0 14 13.0 37 34.3 108 100
Winnipeg 123 50.6 39 16.0 10 4.1 71 29.2 243 100
Edmonton 130 48.1 50 18.5 35 13.0 55 20.4 270 100
Saint John 13 46.4 10 35.7 1 3.6 4 14.3 28 100
Saskatoon 46 42.2 15 13.8 8 7.3 40 36.7 109 100
Barrie 7 41.2 0 0.0 1 5.9 9 52.9 17 100
Kingston 4 33.3 7 58.3 0 0.0 1 8.3 12 100
St. John's 2 28.6 0 0.0 1 14.3 4 57.1 7 100
Regina 11 24.4 13 28.9 2 4.4 19 42.2 45 100
Thunder Bay 1 12.5 0 0.0 0 0.0 7 87.5 8 100
Greater Sudbury 1 10.0 1 10.0 0 0.0 8 80.0 10 100
Total, census metropolitan areasNote 8 2,727 69.7 361 9.2 144 3.7 682 17.4 3,914 100
Non-census metropolitan areas 439 26.4 547 32.9 93 5.6 582 35.0 1,661 100
Total 3,166 56.8 908 16.3 237 4.3 1,264 22.7 5,575 100
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.

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 3.

Includes sawed-off rifles and/or shotguns and fully automatic firearms.

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Note 4.

Includes all weapons that are capable of propelling any object through a barrel by means of gunpowder, CO2 (compressed carbon dioxide), or pumped air, such as flare guns, pellet guns, or starter's pistols. For UCR data, this category also includes all unknown types of firearms.

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Note 5.

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.

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Note 8.

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as 6% of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service falls outside the boundaries of a CMA.

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Note: Weapon is based on the most serious weapon present in the incident. Excludes Quebec due to the large proportion of incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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