Canadian cities ranked by latest-year crime rate per 100,000 residents — the standard population-normalised metric used by Statistics Canada. Lower rate = fewer reported incidents per capita. Data is sourced from 5 Canadian cities' official open-data portals and filtered for minimum reporting coverage (see methodology).
| # | City | Province | Rate / 100K | Incidents | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gatineau | QC | 4,944 | 14,388 | 291,041 |
| 2 | Victoria | BC | 2,366 | 2,174 | 91,867 |
| 3 | Medicine Hat | AB | 2,093 | 1,324 | 63,260 |
| 4 | Saskatoon | SK | 1,821 | 4,847 | 266,141 |
| 5 | Lethbridge | AB | 1,796 | 1,767 | 98,406 |
| # | City | Province | Rate / 100K | Incidents | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lethbridge | AB | 1,796 | 1,767 | 98,406 |
| 2 | Saskatoon | SK | 1,821 | 4,847 | 266,141 |
| 3 | Medicine Hat | AB | 2,093 | 1,324 | 63,260 |
| 4 | Victoria | BC | 2,366 | 2,174 | 91,867 |
| 5 | Gatineau | QC | 4,944 | 14,388 | 291,041 |
A high rate per 100,000 does not automatically mean high severity — a city with many minor thefts but few violent crimes can have a high rate but a modest severity score. For severity-weighted rankings, see the Crime Severity Index explainer (homicide is weighted roughly 190 times higher than minor theft).
Per-category rates by city are available on individual category pages, including homicide, robbery, auto theft, break and enter, and more.
incidents ÷ population × 100,000. It normalises for city size so a small city with 500 incidents can be compared to a large city with 50,000. Population figures we use are from the 2021 Canadian Census.
Crime rates include minor offences (mischief, minor theft) alongside violent crimes. A city with lots of minor theft and no violence has a high rate but low severity. See /crime-severity-index.
CrimeMaps.ca publishes Canadian data only. For Canada vs USA comparisons consult <a href="https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/crime_and_justice" rel="nofollow noopener">Statistics Canada</a> (UCR2 / Crime Severity Index) or the <a href="https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/" rel="nofollow noopener">FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program</a>. We do not republish or re-derive cross-country comparisons here because the offence taxonomies and reporting practices differ enough that side-by-side numbers are easy to misinterpret without methodological caveats from the source agencies.