Canada's Most Dangerous Places 2020

Canada’s Most Dangerous Places 2020

Published November 19, 2019

Explore Canada’s crime data with our in-depth interactive tool and see how your community ranks. The ranking tool is set to show the Violent Crime Severity Index by default — click “All Crime” to see a ranking of the most dangerous places by crime severity index.

FEATURE: Canada’s worst violent crime problem is in Thompson, Man. »

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Legend

▲: Crime rose
▼: Crime fell
➖: No change

Methodology

The report ranks communities according to the Crime Severity Index (CSI), a Statistics Canada measure of all police-reported crime, which takes into consideration both the volume and seriousness of offences. The 2018 data, the most current available, was released July 23, 2019. Full Methodology »

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Homicide, Assault & Bodily Harm
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Assault rate (incidents per 100,000 population):	{{numFormatDecimal(city.assault1Rate100K)}} (Canada avg.: 457.01)
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Theft & Property Crime
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Fraud rate (incidents per 100,000 population):	{{numFormatDecimal(city.fraudRate100K)}} (Canada avg.: 349.2)
Drug Offences
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Impaired Driving rate (incidents per 100,000 population):	{{numFormatDecimal(city.impairedDrivingRate100K)}} (Canada avg.: 190.49)
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Cannabis trafficking or production rate (incidents per 100,000 population):	{{numFormatDecimal(city.cannabisTrafProdDistRate100K)}} (Canada avg.: 22.5)
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Cocaine trafficking or production rate (incidents per 100,000 population):	{{numFormatDecimal(city.cocaineTrafProdDistRate100K)}} (Canada avg.: 20.03)
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Youth Crime
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Youth Criminal Justice Act offences rate (incidents per 100,000 population):	{{numFormatDecimal(city.youthJusticeActRate100K)}} (Canada avg.: 13.01)