What Are The Safest Cities In Canada?

Taller Better · Aug 4, 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ypnexthome/crime-rates-canadian-cities_b_11185172.html

What Are The Safest Cities In Canada?
Posted: 08/02/2016 11:44 am EDT Updated: 08/03/2016 10:59 am EDT

The safety of an area is always top of mind when searching for a new home. Statistics Canada recently released their study on police-reported crimes in 2015. The 2015 report examines the Crime Severity Index (CSI), which measures the volume as well as the seriousness of each crime in comparison to others.

This year marked the first time in 12 years that Canada experienced an increase in CSI -- up five per cent year over year. The overall volume and severity of violent crime was up six per cent, while non-violent crime was up four per cent from 2014 to 2015. The significant increase in Alberta's police-reported crime contributed to the national increase. On a positive note, however, the CSI is still 31 per cent lower when compared to ten years ago in 2005.....

Here is the full list of each CMA's CSI and crimes rates from western to eastern Canada:

read it all here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ypnexthome/crime-rates-canadian-cities_b_11185172.html

Scizoid.Trans.Prog. · Aug 5, 2016

I'm surprised about Calgary and Moncton being two most dangerous cities. I thought Winnipeg's the worse.

Yellow Fever · Aug 7, 2016

Richmond, BC is pretty safe, probably because most of its pop are Chinese.

Arkitexture · Aug 7, 2016

I thought part of the reason BC was so dangerous was because of Asian gangs?

Scizoid.Trans.Prog. · Aug 8, 2016

Pakistani gangs indeed ;]

I think they are most common in Surrey area.

Taller Better · Aug 7, 2016

There are gangs of cougar hunters that scour the bars downtown looking for single middle aged ladies sipping on Cosmopolitans!

xzmattzx · Aug 8, 2016

Toronto is third-safest? I thought gang-related activity was rising. Or is that Mississauga or something?

I was also under the impression that Hamilton and St. Catharines were a little more on the less-safe side because of the blue collar roots and relative lack of economic development.

Not trying to stir up a controversy, and crime itself is relative (I would guess all of Canada is safer than Chicago, for instance, and the United States is safer than pretty much all of Mexico, it would seem), but I thought the Golden Horseshoe had relatively more crime than most other places in Canada. Maybe that's my bias based on spending time in that area.

Taller Better · Aug 8, 2016

Not that I've ever known.... these figures seem pretty similar to past ones that came out.

Oaronuviss · Aug 8, 2016

In 2012, my county (Essex County) had FIVE of the safest communities in Canada over the population of 10,000.

Amherstburg was the safest community in Canada followed by LaSalle. Tecumseh and Lakeshore were fourth and fifth respectively and Kingsville was tenth.
1, 2, 4, 5, and 10!

Fancy that? The most Southern county in Canada, out of the entire nation had that many towns in the high rankings.

Not sure where they stand now, but impressive to say the least.

Taller Better · Aug 16, 2016

Here is an interesting insight in how we view each other as cities. Despite the fact that in reality Toronto is one of the safest cities in Canada, people across Canada view it as one of the most dangerous.
http://www.cp24.com/news/plurality-of-canadians-view-toronto-as-unsafe-poll-1.3030353

Plurality of Canadians view Toronto as unsafe: poll

Chris Fox, CP24.com
Published Tuesday, August 16, 2016 6:48AM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:50AM EDT

Canadians view Toronto as one of the most dangerous cities in the country despite a crime rate that actually places it among the safest, a new poll has found.

Mainstreet Research asked 4,231 Canadians for their opinion on whether 15 major cities are safe or unsafe.

The poll revealed that 47 per cent of respondents view Toronto as unsafe compared to 46 per cent who view it as safe and seven per cent who weren’t sure. Only Winnipeg had a less favourable rating (56 per cent viewed it as unsafe). Montreal was the other city in the bottom three (44 per cent viewed it as unsafe).....

read it all here:
http://www.cp24.com/news/plurality-of-canadians-view-toronto-as-unsafe-poll-1.3030353

Balkanada · Aug 17, 2016

Weird how Hamilton has the reputation of being such a poor city so you would think it's crime ridden but the statistics show it's not

Come to think of it I don't turn on the news and hear about a shooting that happened there everyday... you do for Toronto though

Oaronuviss · Aug 17, 2016

Same goes for Windsor. Generally regarded as a "poor" city, the crime rate is not that bad for a city this size. Murders are VERY rare.
And 230,000 people live here in the city limits.

Taller Better · Aug 17, 2016

Well, the GTA has six millon people, so in absolute figures it will have more crime than Hamilton which has 500,000 people. But that is not the same thing as crime rates which are about per capita.

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