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  "id": "crimes-by-type",
  "category": "Health and safety",
  "title": "Police-reported crimes by type, Greater Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (police-reporting boundaries)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Police services (municipal and RCMP)",
    "Provincial and federal justice policy"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Which kinds of crime are reported to police most often, and are they going up or down?",
  "value": 5588.34,
  "display_value": "5,588",
  "unit": "Criminal Code crimes per 100,000 people (excluding traffic)",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Calendar year 2024",
    "previous_value": 5283.47,
    "change_percent": 5.8
  },
  "trend": "worsening",
  "trend_basis": "5,588.34 per 100,000 in 2025 against 5,283.47 in 2024 (Statistics Canada, “Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic)”, rate per 100,000 population). 24,877 incidents in 2025.",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "A lower rate means fewer police-reported crimes for the size of the population.",
  "since_text": "24,877 incidents in 2025, 23,347 in 2024.",
  "breakdown": [
    {
      "label": "Assault (level 1, the least serious)",
      "display_value": "600.2 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Assault, level 1”. 2,672 incidents in 2025, 2,446 in 2024 (rate 553.5). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 1,220 in 2025, 1,026 in 2020."
    },
    {
      "label": "Break and enter",
      "display_value": "192.1 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Breaking and entering”. 855 incidents in 2025, 797 in 2024 (rate 180.4). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 374 in 2025, 1,054 in 2020."
    },
    {
      "label": "Theft of $5,000 or less",
      "display_value": "626.1 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Theft $5,000 or under”. 2,787 incidents in 2025, 2,481 in 2024 (rate 561.5). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 1,460 in 2025, 1,643 in 2020."
    },
    {
      "label": "Shoplifting ($5,000 or less)",
      "display_value": "596.2 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Shoplifting $5,000 or under”. 2,654 incidents in 2025, 2,092 in 2024 (rate 473.4). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 1,437 in 2025, 691 in 2020."
    },
    {
      "label": "Motor vehicle theft",
      "display_value": "70.8 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Total theft of motor vehicle”. 315 incidents in 2025, 297 in 2024 (rate 67.2). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 102 in 2025, 262 in 2020."
    },
    {
      "label": "Mischief",
      "display_value": "736.8 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Mischief”. 3,280 incidents in 2025, 3,629 in 2024 (rate 821.2). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 1,385 in 2025, 1,541 in 2020."
    },
    {
      "label": "Robbery",
      "display_value": "40.7 per 100,000",
      "period": "2025",
      "detail": "Statistics Canada: “Robbery”. 181 incidents in 2025, 149 in 2024 (rate 33.7). Victoria police service (City of Victoria): 126 in 2025, 111 in 2020."
    }
  ],
  "breakdown_title": "By type, 2025",
  "caveats": [
    "Counts are crimes reported to or found by police, by the most serious violation in each incident. Unreported crime is not included.",
    "Rates are per 100,000 people in the Victoria metropolitan area, as Statistics Canada publishes them.",
    "The City of Victoria figures in the list come from table 35-10-0184-01 (police services). They are compared from 2020 only: from 2020, Esquimalt is counted separately, so earlier Victoria police counts are not comparable.",
    "The total is Statistics Canada’s own total; the types listed are a selection named in the brief and do not add up to it."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "Crimes by type, Greater Victoria (per 100,000 people)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "per 100,000 people",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Assault (level 1, the least serious)",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 430.61
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 501.32
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 469.23
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 458.95
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 485.26
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 540.23
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 508.11
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 545.25
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 507.14
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 519.77
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 553.53
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 600.23
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Break and enter",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 367.2
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 393.72
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 314.72
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 282.53
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 292.82
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 390.16
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 436.26
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 327.05
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 277.13
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 291.07
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 180.36
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 192.07
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Theft of $5,000 or less",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 830.19
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 930.65
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 873.53
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 807.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 823.11
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 904.18
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 726.85
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 640.14
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 590.61
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 599.47
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 561.45
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 626.07
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Shoplifting ($5,000 or less)",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 415.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 497.87
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 463.77
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 426.48
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 511.43
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 461.12
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 360.02
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 387.99
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 456.26
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 473.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 473.42
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 596.19
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "More crimes by type, Greater Victoria (per 100,000 people)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "per 100,000 people",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Motor vehicle theft",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 106.84
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 104.94
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 103.61
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 120.94
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 114.71
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 134.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 117.41
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 109.82
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 81.59
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            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 70.69
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 67.21
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 70.76
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Mischief",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
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              "period": "2014",
              "value": 730.63
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            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 776.56
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            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 698.52
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 673.72
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 743.87
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            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 794.4
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            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 823.31
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            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 808.96
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            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 781.7
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            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 797.91
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            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 821.25
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 736.82
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          ]
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        {
          "name": "Robbery",
          "area": "cma-police",
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              "period": "2014",
              "value": 43.17
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            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 42.51
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            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 35.83
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 28.64
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            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 33.46
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            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 37.33
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            {
              "period": "2020",
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            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 42.44
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            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 42.74
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            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 33.72
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 40.66
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      "period": "2014",
      "value": 5396.09
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    {
      "period": "2015",
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    {
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      "value": 5499.58
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    {
      "period": "2017",
      "value": 5355.51
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    {
      "period": "2018",
      "value": 5789.72
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    {
      "period": "2019",
      "value": 6547.1
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    {
      "period": "2020",
      "value": 6227.45
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "value": 5869.15
    },
    {
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      "value": 5648.66
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 5809.65
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    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 5283.47
    },
    {
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      "value": 5588.34
    }
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  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (published in July)",
  "data_published": "2026-07-22",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, tables 35-10-0177-01 (areas) and 35-10-0184-01 (police services)",
    "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510017701",
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    "table": "35-10-0177-01",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/crime_and_justice",
    "locator": "Table 35-10-0177-01: Victoria, British Columbia [59935], Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic), Rate per 100,000 population, 2025",
    "also": [
      {
        "name": "Table 35-10-0184-01: Victoria, municipal police service, actual incidents",
        "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510018401"
      }
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  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0177-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:21:01Z",
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        "2015": 1887.0,
        "2016": 1807.0,
        "2017": 1795.0,
        "2018": 1929.0,
        "2019": 2185.0,
        "2020": 2086.0,
        "2021": 2264.0,
        "2022": 2163.0,
        "2023": 2250.0,
        "2024": 2446.0,
        "2025": 2672.0
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        "2015": 501.32,
        "2016": 469.23,
        "2017": 458.95,
        "2018": 485.26,
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        "2020": 508.11,
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        "2022": 507.14,
        "2023": 519.77,
        "2024": 553.53,
        "2025": 600.23
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        "2021": 1144.0,
        "2022": 1019.0,
        "2023": 995.0,
        "2024": 1159.0,
        "2025": 1220.0
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    },
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        "2015": 1482.0,
        "2016": 1212.0,
        "2017": 1105.0,
        "2018": 1164.0,
        "2019": 1578.0,
        "2020": 1791.0,
        "2021": 1358.0,
        "2022": 1182.0,
        "2023": 1260.0,
        "2024": 797.0,
        "2025": 855.0
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        "2015": 393.72,
        "2016": 314.72,
        "2017": 282.53,
        "2018": 292.82,
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        "2020": 436.26,
        "2021": 327.05,
        "2022": 277.13,
        "2023": 291.07,
        "2024": 180.36,
        "2025": 192.07
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        "2020": 1054.0,
        "2021": 702.0,
        "2022": 616.0,
        "2023": 595.0,
        "2024": 353.0,
        "2025": 374.0
      }
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        "2015": 3503.0,
        "2016": 3364.0,
        "2017": 3159.0,
        "2018": 3272.0,
        "2019": 3657.0,
        "2020": 2984.0,
        "2021": 2658.0,
        "2022": 2519.0,
        "2023": 2595.0,
        "2024": 2481.0,
        "2025": 2787.0
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        "2014": 830.19,
        "2015": 930.65,
        "2016": 873.53,
        "2017": 807.7,
        "2018": 823.11,
        "2019": 904.18,
        "2020": 726.85,
        "2021": 640.14,
        "2022": 590.61,
        "2023": 599.47,
        "2024": 561.45,
        "2025": 626.07
      },
      "victoria_police_incidents": {
        "2020": 1643.0,
        "2021": 1343.0,
        "2022": 1352.0,
        "2023": 1303.0,
        "2024": 1256.0,
        "2025": 1460.0
      }
    },
    "Shoplifting $5,000 or under": {
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        "2015": 1874.0,
        "2016": 1786.0,
        "2017": 1668.0,
        "2018": 2033.0,
        "2019": 1865.0,
        "2020": 1478.0,
        "2021": 1611.0,
        "2022": 1946.0,
        "2023": 2051.0,
        "2024": 2092.0,
        "2025": 2654.0
      },
      "rate": {
        "2014": 415.5,
        "2015": 497.87,
        "2016": 463.77,
        "2017": 426.48,
        "2018": 511.43,
        "2019": 461.12,
        "2020": 360.02,
        "2021": 387.99,
        "2022": 456.26,
        "2023": 473.8,
        "2024": 473.42,
        "2025": 596.19
      },
      "victoria_police_incidents": {
        "2020": 691.0,
        "2021": 906.0,
        "2022": 999.0,
        "2023": 1065.0,
        "2024": 1059.0,
        "2025": 1437.0
      }
    },
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        "2015": 395.0,
        "2016": 399.0,
        "2017": 473.0,
        "2018": 456.0,
        "2019": 544.0,
        "2020": 482.0,
        "2021": 456.0,
        "2022": 348.0,
        "2023": 306.0,
        "2024": 297.0,
        "2025": 315.0
      },
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        "2015": 104.94,
        "2016": 103.61,
        "2017": 120.94,
        "2018": 114.71,
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        "2021": 109.82,
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        "2024": 67.21,
        "2025": 70.76
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        "2021": 231.0,
        "2022": 141.0,
        "2023": 127.0,
        "2024": 124.0,
        "2025": 102.0
      }
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        "2015": 2923.0,
        "2016": 2690.0,
        "2017": 2635.0,
        "2018": 2957.0,
        "2019": 3213.0,
        "2020": 3380.0,
        "2021": 3359.0,
        "2022": 3334.0,
        "2023": 3454.0,
        "2024": 3629.0,
        "2025": 3280.0
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        "2023": 797.91,
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        "2025": 736.82
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        "2021": 1567.0,
        "2022": 1476.0,
        "2023": 1558.0,
        "2024": 1660.0,
        "2025": 1385.0
      }
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        "2017": 112.0,
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        "2022": 181.0,
        "2023": 185.0,
        "2024": 149.0,
        "2025": 181.0
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        "2015": 42.51,
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        "2022": 42.44,
        "2023": 42.74,
        "2024": 33.72,
        "2025": 40.66
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        "2021": 122.0,
        "2022": 130.0,
        "2023": 135.0,
        "2024": 106.0,
        "2025": 126.0
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    }
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