To a quite astonishing degree, the chance that someone will try to steal your vehicle varies widely across Canada depending upon where you live.
According to the last official survey by Statistics Canada using the latest Unified Crime Reporting Survey, there are wide variances of auto theft by city, or at least by the country's 27 Census Management Areas (CMAs).
In 2003 there were 171,017 attempts to steal a vehicle in this country reported to the police. For a national population of 31,629,677, that's a rate of 541 thefts per 100,000 people.
From top to bottom, here are the national rankings of those CMAs and their auto theft rate per 100,000 people.
1) Abbotsford 1,580
2) Winnipeg 1,493
3) Regina 1,355
4) Vancouver 1,261
5) Edmonton 951
6) Saskatoon 744
7) Hamilton 740
8) Montreal 659
9) Sherbrooke 648
10) London 586
National Average 541
11) Calgary 537
12) Sudbury 525
13) Halifax 440
14) Kitchener 419
15) St. Kitts/Niagara 410
16) Ottawa 402
17) Windsor 384
18) Toronto 372
19) Trois Rivieres 342
20) Gatineau 324
21) Victoria 284
22) Thunder Bay 273
23) Saguenay 271
24) Quebec 265
25) Kingston 250
26) Saint John 231
27) St. John's 161
According to the last official survey by Statistics Canada using the latest Unified Crime Reporting Survey, there are wide variances of auto theft by city, or at least by the country's 27 Census Management Areas (CMAs).
In 2003 there were 171,017 attempts to steal a vehicle in this country reported to the police. For a national population of 31,629,677, that's a rate of 541 thefts per 100,000 people.
From top to bottom, here are the national rankings of those CMAs and their auto theft rate per 100,000 people.
1) Abbotsford 1,580
2) Winnipeg 1,493
3) Regina 1,355
4) Vancouver 1,261
5) Edmonton 951
6) Saskatoon 744
7) Hamilton 740
8) Montreal 659
9) Sherbrooke 648
10) London 586
National Average 541
11) Calgary 537
12) Sudbury 525
13) Halifax 440
14) Kitchener 419
15) St. Kitts/Niagara 410
16) Ottawa 402
17) Windsor 384
18) Toronto 372
19) Trois Rivieres 342
20) Gatineau 324
21) Victoria 284
22) Thunder Bay 273
23) Saguenay 271
24) Quebec 265
25) Kingston 250
26) Saint John 231
27) St. John's 161