Violent vs. non-violent crime severity across Canadian cities - Inspurious

Not all Canadian cities face the same kind of crime challenge. Some have relatively high violent crime; others struggle more with non-violent crime — property offences like theft, break-ins, and fraud. A few face elevated levels of both, while others face low levels of both. Statistics Canada tracks this through the crime severity index, which measures both the volume and seriousness of police-reported crime, with more serious offences carrying greater weight.

In the charts below, 100 = Canada's national average for each index. A city above 100 on the violent axis has violent crime severity above the national average; a city below 100 on the non-violent axis has non-violent crime severity below the national average. Because both indices use the same benchmark, they can be read side by side. A city at 130 on violent and 90 on non-violent has violent crime 30% above the national average, and non-violent crime 10% below.