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Media and data reuse
Crime Canada publishes police-reported crime statistics for every province, metro area and police service in Canada, from Statistics Canada. Quote the figures, reuse the tables and charts, and ask us for the numbers for your area.
Updated Data year 2025Source: Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting SurveyFrançais
Crime Severity Index
75.0
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0026-01
Crime rate per 100,000
5,585
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0177-01
Metro areas covered
40
Source: Crime Canada
Cities and towns with a severity index
457
Source: Crime Canada
Our main data pages
- Crime Severity Index of every city and town
Filter by province and size; the link keeps your filters.
- Most dangerous cities in Canada
All metro areas ranked by crime rate and severity.
- Safest cities in Canada
The same ranking from the lowest rate.
- Crime rate by province
Provinces and territories compared.
- Crime trends since 1998
National series, year by year.
- Compare two cities
Any two places side by side.
Reusing our tables and charts
You may quote our figures and reproduce our tables and charts in news stories, reports, coursework, presentations and on your website, free of charge. Please name Crime Canada and link to the page you used as the source.
- Every table has a "Download CSV" link with the same figures.
- Charts on city pages have an "Embed" option: paste the code into your page and the chart stays up to date.
- Ranking pages have a "Cite or reuse this data" box with a ready-made citation.
- The underlying figures are Statistics Canada data, used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Each page names the table and year it uses. Methodology
A citation can read:
Crime Canada. (2026). Crime Severity Index by city, 2025 [Data set]. Statistics Canada data. https://statistics.crimecanada.ca/crime-severity-index
Media enquiries
Working on a story about crime in a city, a province or Canada? We can send you the figures for your area, a ranking, or a chart, usually the same day. Write to [email protected] or call +1 778 900 3008.
Crime Canada data desk, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J7.
Spotted an error? Tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. Report a correction. How our news reports are sourced and checked: the Crime Canada newsroom.
Figures on this site: 457 cities and towns, 40 metro areas, 13 provinces and territories, 2025 data.