Table 2.8
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2015

Table 2.8
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by CMA (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2.8 Note 1, Table 2.8 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 212 204 139 138 351 171
Halifax 332 158 187 91 519 125
Moncton 208 268 130 168 338 218
Saint John 256 398 134 217 390 309
Saguenay 405 491 174 208 579 348
Québec 1,560 390 694 177 2,254 284
Sherbrooke 219 220 105 108 324 165
Trois-Rivières 358 459 159 209 517 336
Montréal 7,920 390 3,610 181 11,530 287
GatineauTable 2.8 Note 3 765 464 331 205 1,096 336
OttawaTable 2.8 Note 4 601 119 242 50 843 85
Kingston 158 189 61 75 219 133
Peterborough 105 169 36 62 141 117
TorontoTable 2.8 Note 5 5,962 214 2,488 93 8,450 155
HamiltonTable 2.8 Note 6 483 174 194 71 677 123
St. Catharines–Niagara 397 175 152 70 549 124
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 531 196 269 100 800 148
Brantford 247 358 115 172 362 266
Guelph 96 145 40 63 136 105
London 422 164 173 70 595 118
Windsor 377 249 166 112 543 181
Barrie 168 157 98 93 266 126
Greater Sudbury 217 263 85 106 302 185
Thunder Bay 267 439 112 190 379 316
Winnipeg 990 245 388 98 1,378 172
Regina 280 234 172 142 452 188
Saskatoon 439 289 189 122 628 205
Calgary 1,998 282 987 135 2,985 207
Edmonton 2,295 345 892 130 3,187 236
Kelowna 310 315 142 149 452 233
Abbotsford–Mission 291 321 120 130 411 225
Vancouver 2,632 210 1,104 90 3,736 150
Victoria 414 226 189 107 603 167
CMA totalTable 2.8 Note 7 32,752 273 14,455 123 47,207 199
Non-CMA total 25,200 433 13,699 233 38,899 333
Canada 57,952 325 28,154 160 86,106 243
Note 1.

A 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, 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.

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

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Note 4.

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

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Note 5.

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

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

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: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law partners), parents (biological, adopted, step, foster), children (biological, adopted, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), and extended family members. Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. 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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