Table 4.8
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2014

Table 4.8
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Victims of family violence, Female, Male and Total, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Note 1, Note 2 Victims of family violenceNote 3
Female Male Total
number rateNote 4 number rateNote 4 number rateNote 4
St. John's 61 334.2 52 271.9 113 302.3
Halifax 94 269.9 68 183.1 162 225.1
Moncton 34 252.9 39 265.1 73 259.3
Saint John 40 330.9 31 242.3 71 285.3
Saguenay 84 607.3 66 458.6 150 531.5
Québec 221 334.3 132 191.2 353 261.2
Sherbrooke 67 393.1 21 115.6 88 249.9
Trois-Rivières 58 483.2 31 243.1 89 359.5
Montréal 1,070 284.6 777 198.2 1,847 240.5
GatineauNote 5 102 311.1 52 152.6 154 230.3
OttawaNote 6 112 118.0 73 74.5 185 95.9
Kingston 35 250.2 21 143.9 56 195.9
Peterborough 19 187.2 18 170.8 37 178.8
TorontoNote 7 926 179.3 762 139.3 1,688 158.7
HamiltonNote 8 114 222.1 82 150.3 196 185.1
St.Catharines-Niagara 44 112.1 37 89.8 81 100.7
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 101 182.3 79 136.7 180 159.0
Brantford 31 224.0 21 145.4 52 183.9
Guelph 16 126.2 9 67.9 25 96.4
London 85 178.7 61 121.2 146 149.1
Windsor 65 221.7 29 93.2 94 155.5
Barrie 37 166.1 19 81.2 56 122.6
Greater Sudbury 40 276.5 15 97.9 55 184.6
Thunder Bay 24 232.1 17 158.5 41 194.6
Winnipeg 228 289.0 161 194.7 389 240.7
Regina 48 195.9 41 159.4 89 177.2
Saskatoon 97 314.2 55 167.1 152 238.3
Calgary 261 180.1 229 149.5 490 164.3
Edmonton 347 263.3 225 162.1 572 211.4
Kelowna 27 169.6 20 121.0 47 144.8
Abbotsford-Mission 38 199.3 28 136.5 66 166.7
Vancouver 352 166.2 270 118.5 622 141.5
Victoria 59 214.2 26 92.1 85 152.5
CMA TotalNote 9 5,059 215.9 3,682 149.2 8,741 181.7
Non CMA Total 4,628 459.3 3,013 283.9 7,641 369.3
Canada 9,687 289.1 6,695 189.7 16,382 238.1
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. 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.

Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, adoptive, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), extended family and spouses.

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Note 4.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 5.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of 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 7.

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

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Note 8.

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

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Note 9.

Includes Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police, which are responsible for policing more than one CMA. This total also includes the portion of Durham Regional Police that polices the Oshawa CMA. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total will not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note: Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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