Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2014

Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2014
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 2013 to 2014 and percent change 2004 to 2014 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3		 Population Total Crime
Severity Index		 Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2013 to 2014 percent change 2004 to 2014 index percent change 2013 to 2014 index percent change 2013 to 2014
St. John's 204,427 73.9 -5 -25 69.5 -12 75.4 -3
Halifax 414,370 65.7 -4 -51 73.6 -13 62.7 0
MonctonNote 4 154,460 65.4 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 74.5 Note ...: not applicable 62.0 Note ...: not applicable
Saint JohnNote 4 127,730 55.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 61.6 Note ...: not applicable 53.5 Note ...: not applicable
Saguenay 167,708 54.9 -7 -11 58.2 6 53.6 -12
Québec 793,352 45.2 -2 -35 47.5 0 44.2 -3
Sherbrooke 196,621 52.4 -8 -38 51.6 16 52.5 -15
Trois-Rivières 154,975 58.7 -3 -18 57.3 10 59.1 -6
Montréal 4,032,173 60.2 -9 -41 72.5 -9 55.6 -9
GatineauNote 5 325,403 56.3 -1 -36 57.5 -12 55.7 4
OttawaNote 6 986,863 45.3 -7 -44 49.6 -12 43.7 -6
Kingston 165,319 55.2 2 -33 44.3 -8 59.1 5
PeterboroughNote 7 122,197 53.4 -2 -33 51.7 -10 53.9 2
Toronto 5,997,063 44.9 -4 -38 63.5 -6 38.0 -3
Hamilton 744,618 50.7 -8 -38 55.0 -8 49.0 -8
St. Catharines–Niagara 446,192 57.3 0 -28 40.9 -17 63.1 5
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 538,302 55.2 -4 -34 51.1 -11 56.6 -1
BrantfordNote 7 143,909 76.3 -8 -33 73.5 0 77.2 -11
GuelphNote 7 129,079 47.7 9 -20 44.1 3 48.9 12
London 504,599 66.3 -2 -27 49.0 -15 72.4 2
Windsor 329,886 58.1 -5 -43 57.0 -8 58.3 -4
BarrieNote 7 210,592 43.6 2 -44 42.3 11 44.0 -1
Greater Sudbury 165,175 61.3 -8 -25 62.9 -5 60.6 -10
Thunder Bay 121,616 89.9 10 -18 138.5 22 72.0 3
Winnipeg 790,995 80.7 -4 -53 116.1 -4 67.7 -3
Regina 239,630 102.8 -3 -55 103.8 -4 102.2 -2
Saskatoon 306,605 109.7 10 -42 122.6 11 104.8 10
Calgary 1,415,000 59.9 -2 -39 63.0 1 58.6 -2
Edmonton 1,328,780 87.1 2 -40 93.3 3 84.7 2
KelownaNote 7 190,015 87.9 0 -38 60.4 -5 97.8 1
Abbotsford–Mission 178,919 84.4 6 -50 81.1 17 85.4 2
Vancouver 2,470,942 96.7 8 -39 78.2 -5 103.2 12
Victoria 358,930 62.8 6 -46 58.4 7 64.3 6
Canada 35,540,419 66.7 -3 -36 70.2 -5 65.2 -2
... not applicable
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 census metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, 2013 data for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous or future years. Further, data from 2014 onward are not comparable to years prior to 2014.

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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 7.

Peterborough, Brantford, Guelph, Barrie and Kelowna became CMAs in 2006. Therefore, the percent change in Total Crime Severity Index for these CMAs is calculated from 2006 to 2014.

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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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