Table 3.7
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 3.7
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (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 3.7 Note 1 Table 3.7 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 320 357 86 100 406 232
Halifax 723 392 202 114 925 256
Moncton 435 656 138 211 573 435
Saint John 313 569 64 124 377 353
Saguenay 269 381 85 119 354 249
Québec 1,482 433 443 133 1,925 285
Sherbrooke 264 309 44 53 308 184
Trois-Rivières 315 461 91 139 406 304
Montréal 7,902 458 2,459 147 10,361 305
GatineauTable 3.7 Note 3 748 540 241 180 989 363
OttawaTable 3.7 Note 4 1,137 263 241 59 1,378 163
Kingston 223 308 53 75 276 193
Peterborough 219 403 44 88 263 252
TorontoTable 3.7 Note 5 7,542 314 1,783 78 9,325 199
HamiltonTable 3.7 Note 6 773 325 193 84 966 206
St. Catharines–Niagara 446 226 80 43 526 137
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 803 352 266 119 1,069 237
Brantford 305 522 74 132 379 331
Guelph 212 374 34 64 246 224
London 928 421 228 109 1,156 270
Windsor 528 410 102 82 630 249
Barrie 272 302 55 63 327 184
Greater Sudbury 300 423 66 97 366 263
Thunder Bay 395 760 111 221 506 496
Winnipeg 1,968 592 382 118 2,350 358
Regina 683 678 155 155 838 417
Saskatoon 739 574 179 137 918 354
Calgary 2,396 403 752 124 3,148 262
Edmonton 2,815 502 618 107 3,433 302
Kelowna 334 390 115 139 449 267
Abbotsford–Mission 434 575 67 89 501 332
Vancouver 3,595 327 822 77 4,417 204
Victoria 631 387 165 106 796 250
CMA totalTable 3.7 Note 7 41,626 386 10,725 103 52,351 247
Non-CMA total 31,774 722 9,122 207 40,896 464
Canada 73,400 483 19,847 133 93,247 310
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 aged 15 and older. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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