Table 5
Characteristics of hate crime victims, Canada, 2015

Table 5
Characteristics of hate crime victims, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Characteristics of hate crime victims. The information is grouped by Characteristic (appearing as row headers), Race or ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other and Total, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristic Race or ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation OtherTable 5 Note 1 Total
percent
SexTable 5 Note 2
Male 72 47 86 56 68
Female 28 53 14 44 32
Total 100 100 100 100 100
AgeTable 5 Note 3
Under 18 years 14 15 16 11 15
18 to 24 years 19 17 22 21 19
25 to 34 years 23 25 22 26 24
35 to 44 years 18 14 9 11 15
45 to 54 years 16 11 23 21 16
55 years and older 9 17 9 11 11
Total 100 100 100 100 100
Relationship to accusedTable 5 Note 4
Stranger 64 74 53 60 63
Acquaintance or family memberTable 5 Note 5 36 26 47 40 37
Total 100 100 100 100 100
InjuriesTable 5 Note 6
No injury or not applicableTable 5 Note 7 70 88 58 95 73
Minor physical injury 27 12 38 5 25
Major physical injury 2 0 4 0 2
Total 100 100 100 100 100
Note 1

Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex and other similar factors (e.g. occupation or political beliefs).

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Note 2

Excludes victims where sex is unknown.

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Note 3

Excludes victims where age is unknown or over 89.

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Note 4

Excludes victims where relationship to accused is unknown.

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Note 5

Includes casual acquaintances, neighbours, business relationships, ex-boy/girlfriends, friends, and other non-family acquaintances as well as members of immediate family or extended family.

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Note 6

Excludes victims where injuries are unknown.

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Note 7

Not applicable refers to incidents which did not involve the use of a weapon or physical force.

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Note: Information in this table reflects data from municipal and provincial police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police covering 94% of the Canadian population. As such, this table excludes a small number of police services that do not report to the UCR2.2 Survey, among which are the municipal police services for Calgary, Québec and Saint John. However, it does include any counts that occurred within the jurisdiction of police services not reporting to UCR2.2, but that were investigated by other police services that do report, such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, or the Sûreté du Québec. Information on victims is limited to incidents involving violent offences. Numbers may not add up to totals due to rounding. Total includes information for incidents where hate crime motivation is unknown. In 2015, information on 503 victims was reported in 409 violent hate crime incidents. In 16% of hate crime incidents involving victims, more than one victim was identified.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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