Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Population, Total Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using number, index, percent change 2015 to 2016 and percent change 2006 to 2016 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 3 Note 1 Table 3 Note 2 Table 3 Note 3 Population Total Crime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2015 to 2016 percent change 2006 to 2016 index percent change 2015 to 2016 index percent change 2015 to 2016
St. John's 207,695 79.2 7 -14 88.9 11 75.5 5
Halifax 426,083 61.0 -4 -50 77.3 -5 55.0 -3
MonctonTable 3 Note 4 157,321 75.7 -4 Note ...: not applicable 79.3 7 74.2 -7
Saint JohnTable 3 Note 4 127,930 52.7 -6 Note ...: not applicable 63.8 -3 48.5 -7
Saguenay 167,054 56.9 6 -2 67.7 10 52.9 4
Québec 800,570 45.2 8 -38 51.5 17 42.8 4
Sherbrooke 199,344 50.3 1 -38 55.6 25 48.2 -6
Trois-Rivières 156,649 48.7 -14 -34 46.2 -23 49.5 -10
Montréal 4,102,619 57.8 -5 -44 73.1 -4 52.1 -5
GatineauTable 3 Note 5 331,114 56.7 6 -34 63.8 15 54.0 3
OttawaTable 3 Note 6 1,013,615 51.3 10 -37 62.1 15 47.2 8
Kingston 167,773 55.2 -2 -30 38.5 -29 61.2 7
Peterborough 123,555 55.1 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -31 68.9 20 50.0 -7
Toronto 6,184,845 47.5 4 -35 70.4 8 39.1 2
Hamilton 760,381 53.6 6 -37 66.0 20 49.0 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
St. Catharines–Niagara 453,817 50.3 -4 -41 37.6 -11 54.9 -1
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 548,936 61.2 1 -23 60.1 8 61.4 -1
Brantford 146,557 86.8 13 -24 88.4 27 86.0 8
Guelph 132,350 54.6 9 -9 49.1 1 56.5 12
London 515,409 68.4 5 -33 59.4 5 71.5 5
Windsor 334,859 65.1 4 -27 58.1 -12 67.6 11
Barrie 216,661 45.4 5 -42 46.3 6 45.0 4
Greater Sudbury 165,154 63.5 7 -29 61.4 -5 64.2 12
Thunder Bay 120,520 85.9 6 -23 125.6 4 71.2 8
Winnipeg 795,643 103.9 16 -37 149.6 20 87.0 14
Regina 247,634 125.8 15 -36 124.1 14 126.2 15
Saskatoon 320,527 117.8 5 -29 114.0 1 118.9 6
Calgary 1,474,624 74.6 -6 -23 61.3 -16 79.3 -2
Edmonton 1,387,281 105.7 3 -19 102.5 -2 106.7 5
Kelowna 196,940 100.3 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -29 62.7 -15 113.7 4
Abbotsford–Mission 186,274 91.4 -5 -36 82.3 -8 94.4 -4
Vancouver 2,551,096 94.3 -1 -32 72.8 -14 102.0 3
Victoria 371,057 63.8 -12 -45 56.8 -18 66.2 -9
Canada 36,286,425 71.0 1 -29 75.3 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 69.3 2
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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.

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Note 3

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 4

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, 2014, 2015 and 2016 data for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 5

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the 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: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 252-0052). Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal by-laws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes by census metropolitan area are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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