Every figure on Canada Crime Map comes from an official, published source. This page lists those sources, the licences that allow us to use them, the attribution each one requires, and how often they are updated. How we work with the numbers is explained on our methodology page.
Independence. Canada Crime Map is not affiliated with or endorsed by Statistics Canada, any police service or any government. We do not use police logos. Using a publisher’s open data does not mean that publisher endorses this site, our rankings or our conclusions.
1. Statistics Canada (main source)
Our city guides, rankings and national pages are built from Statistics Canada’s annual police-reported crime statistics, which come from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey. The UCR covers police services serving 99.6% of Canada’s population.
Products we use
- The Daily, “Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2025“, released 22 July 2026.
- Table 35-10-0026-01, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, Canada, provinces, territories and census metropolitan areas.
- Table 35-10-0177-01, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories, census metropolitan areas and Canadian Forces Military Police.
- Table 35-10-0188-01, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in Ontario.
- Table 35-10-0063-01, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in British Columbia.
Licence
Statistics Canada data is used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Attribution
Where we reproduce Statistics Canada figures without change, the attribution is:
Source: Statistics Canada, <product>, <date>. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
Where we have adapted the data or added our own calculations (for example, comparisons with the national average, rankings or percentage differences that are not in the release), the attribution is:
Adapted from Statistics Canada, <product>, <date>. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
For our 2026 pages, <product> is the table or release named in the article (for example, Table 35-10-0026-01) and <date> is 22 July 2026, the release date of the 2025 figures.
Update frequency
Statistics Canada publishes police-reported crime statistics once a year, usually in late July, for the previous calendar year. The current figures are for 2025, released 22 July 2026. Statistics Canada may revise figures for earlier years in each new release; we update our pages after each release.
2. Police open data (planned for our maps)
Our interactive map is in development. We plan to use incident-level open data from the following police services, under their open licences, with the attributions shown. Until the map launches, our crime map guides link to each service’s own official tools.
Montréal (Service de police de la Ville de Montréal)
- Dataset: Actes criminels, Données Québec
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Attribution:
VILLE DE MONTRÉAL. Actes criminels, [Jeu de données], dans Données Québec, 2016, mis à jour le <date>.
where <date> is the update date of the version we use.
Toronto (Toronto Police Service)
- Data portal: Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Ontario (Toronto Police Service)
- Attribution:
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Ottawa (Ottawa Police Service)
- Data portal: Ottawa Police Service open data
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Ottawa Police Service
- Attribution:
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ottawa Police Service.
Halifax (Halifax Regional Municipality)
- Data portal: Halifax open data
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Halifax
- Attribution:
Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax.
Update frequency
Police open-data portals update on their own schedules, which vary from weekly to annually depending on the service and the dataset. Recent records may be incomplete or revised later. Each map will show the date its data was last refreshed.
Location offsets
Police services protect victims’ privacy by moving incident locations to the nearest block, intersection or area before publishing them. Points on any map built from this data are approximate and must not be read as the exact address of an incident.
3. Other official links we point to
For cities where we do not use incident-level data, we link to the police service’s own statistics or map pages so you can check them directly. These include the Vancouver Police Department’s GeoDASH, the Calgary Police Service, the Edmonton Police Service and others listed on our Canada crime map page. We link to these tools; we do not copy their content.
4. Other sources cited in articles
- Statistics Canada General Social Survey on Canadians’ Safety (Victimization), for the share of crimes reported to police and satisfaction with personal safety.
- An Angus Reid Institute poll (November 2025), as reported by CP24 in January 2026, on public perception of crime. We cite it only as a perception survey, not as crime data.
5. What we do not use
- Restricted police maps. Some police services publish maps or dashboards whose terms forbid commercial reuse. We do not copy, embed or scrape those. We link to them instead.
- Unofficial data. We do not use social media posts, crowd-sourced reports, news tallies or third-party “crime score” websites as data.
- Personal information. We do not publish names, exact addresses or details that could identify victims or suspects.
- Invented figures. If an official figure is not published (for example, neighbourhood-level statistics for many cities), we say so rather than estimate it.
6. Corrections
If you think we have reproduced a figure incorrectly or attributed a source wrongly, please email ggshop@safety-app.uk with the page address and the official source. We check every request against the original table and correct confirmed errors promptly. See our editorial policy.