Incident-based crime statistics (actual incidents, rate per 100,000 population, percentage change in rate, unfounded incidents, percent unfounded, total cleared, cleared by charge, cleared otherwise, persons charged, adults charged, youth charged / not charged), by detailed violations (violent, property, traffic, drugs, other Federal Statutes), police services in British Columbia, 1998 to 2024.

Geospatially tagged crime incident data for Vancouver, BC. Covers the period from 2003 to November 2023 (data access date).

Fields: - TYPE: The type of crime activity. - YEAR: A four-digit field that indicates the year when the reported crime activity occurred.
- MONTH: A numeric field that indicates the month when the reported crime activity occurred.
- DAY: A two-digit field that indicates the day of the month when the reported crime activity occurred.
- HOUR: A two-digit field that indicates the hour time (in 24 hours format) when the reported crime activity occurred.
- MINUTE: A two-digit field that indicates the minute when the reported crime activity occurred - HUNDRED_BLOCK: Generalized location of the reported crime activity - NEIGHBOURHOOD: Neighbourhoods within the City of Vancouver are based on the census tract (CT) concept within census metropolita area (CMA). - X: Coordinate values are projected in UTM Zone 10 - Y: Coordinate values are projected in UTM Zone 10

Outdated versions of the dataset from the same source: - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wosaku/crime-in-vancouver - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/agilesifaka/vancouver-crime-report - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sumaiaparveenshupti/vancouver-bc-historical-crime-data - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/emilyb123/vancouver-crime-data

Crime severity index (violent, non-violent, youth) and weighted clearance rates (violent, non-violent), police services in British Columbia, 1998 to 2024.

The rate of incidents of violent criminal code violations in Canada increased by 51.1 incidents (+3.71 percent) in 2023 in comparison to the previous year. In total, the rate of incidents amounted to 1,427.94 incidents in 2023.

Number and rate (per 100,000 population) of homicide victims, Canada and Census Metropolitan Areas, 1981 to 2024.

Disclaimer on releasing the dataset

The release of Vancouver Police Department (VPD) crime data is intended to enhance community awareness of policing activity in Vancouver. Users are cautioned not to rely on the information provided to make decisions about the specific safety level of a specific location or area. By using this data the user agrees and understands that neither the Vancouver Police Department, Vancouver Police Board nor the City of Vancouver assumes liability for any decisions made or actions taken or not taken by the user in reliance upon any information or data provided.

While every effort has been made to be transparent in this process, users should be aware that the data is designed to provide individuals with a general overview of incidents falling into several crime categories. The information provided therefore does not reflect the total number of calls or complaints made to the VPD.

The data provided is based upon the information contained in the VPD Records Management System. The crime classification and file status may change at any time based on the dynamic nature of police investigations.

The VPD has taken great care to protect the privacy of all parties involved in the incidents reported. No personal or identifying information has been provided in the data. Locations for reported incidents involving Offences Against a Person have been deliberately randomized to several blocks and offset to an intersection. No time or street location name will be provided for these offences. For property-related offenses, the VPD has provided the location to the hundred block of these incidents within the general area of the block. All data must be considered offset and users should not interpret any locations as related to a specific person or specific property.

Content

What's inside is more than just rows and columns. Make it easy for others to get started by describing how you acquired the data and what time period it represents, too.

Acknowledgements

Vancouver Police Department

Inspiration

Can we predict what kind of crimes can occur in 2020 and to what extent?

This statistic shows the crime severity index value of metropolitan areas in Canada in 2023. As of 2023, the crime severity index in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, stood at 116.31.

This statistic shows the homicide rate in Canada in 2023, distinguished by metropolitan areas. In 2023, the homicide rate was highest in Thunder Bay, with 5.39 victims per 100,000 population. During the same year, the national homicide rate was 1.94 per 100,000 population in Canada.

Content

The data comes from the Vancouver Open Data Catalogue. It was extracted on 2017-07-18 and it contains 530,652 records from 2003-01-01 to 2017-07-13. The original data set contains coordinates in UTM Zone 10 (columns X and Y). I also included Latitude and Longitude, which I converted using this spreadsheet that can be found here.

There's also a Google Trends data that shows how often a search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume. From Google Trends:

"Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. Likewise a score of 0 means the term was less than 1% as popular as the peak."

Original data for search term "crime" location British Columbia: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-01%202017-06-30&geo=CA-BC&q=crime

Acknowledgements

Photo By Charles de Jesus [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Number, percentage and rate (per 100,000 population) of homicide victims, by racialized identity group (total, by racialized identity group; racialized identity group; South Asian; Chinese; Black; Filipino; Arab; Latin American; Southeast Asian; West Asian; Korean; Japanese; other racialized identity group; multiple racialized identity; racialized identity, but racialized identity group is unknown; rest of the population; unknown racialized identity group), gender (all genders; male; female; gender unknown) and region (Canada; Atlantic region; Quebec; Ontario; Prairies region; British Columbia; territories), 2019 to 2024.

This statistic shows the homicide rate in Canada in 2023, by province. In 2023, the highest homicide rate was in the Northwest Territories with 13.34 murders per 100,000 residents.

BackgroundA key issue in the analysis of many spatial processes is the choice of an appropriate scale for the analysis. Smaller geographical units are generally preferable for the study of human phenomena because they are less likely to cause heterogeneous groups to be conflated. However, it can be harder to obtain data for small units and small-number problems can frustrate quantitative analysis. This research presents a new approach that can be used to estimate the most appropriate scale at which to aggregate point data to areas.Data and methodsThe proposed method works by creating a number of regular grids with iteratively smaller cell sizes (increasing grid resolution) and estimating the similarity between two realisations of the point pattern at each resolution. The method is applied first to simulated point patterns and then to real publicly available crime data from the city of Vancouver, Canada. The crime types tested are residential burglary, commercial burglary, theft from vehicle and theft of bike.FindingsThe results provide evidence for the size of spatial unit that is the most appropriate for the different types of crime studied. Importantly, the results are dependent on both the number of events in the data and the degree of spatial clustering, so a single ‘appropriate’ scale is not identified. The method is nevertheless useful as a means of better estimating what spatial scale might be appropriate for a particular piece of analysis.

Police-reported hate crime, number of incidents and rate per 100,000 population, Census Metropolitan Areas and Canadian Forces Military Police, 2014 to 2024.

Number and percentage of homicide victims, by type of firearm used to commit the homicide (total firearms; handgun; rifle or shotgun; fully automatic firearm; sawed-off rifle or shotgun; firearm-like weapons; other firearms, type unknown), Canada, 1974 to 2018.

This statistic shows the number of drug-related offenses in Canada in 2022, by metropolitan area. There were 5,942 drug-related offenses in the Vancouver area in Canada in 2023.

In 2023 in Toronto, the largest city in the Canadian province of Ontario, the most frequent type of property crime recorded by police was theft of under ***** Canadian dollars of non-motor vehicles, with almost ****** incidents. In 2023, Toronto was the city with the highest number of property crimes in Canada, ahead of Vancouver.

In 2022 in Montréal, the largest city in the Canadian province of Québec, the most frequent type of property crime recorded by police was theft under ***** Canadian dollars of non-motor vehicles, with over ****** incidents. The second most frequent type of crime related to property that year was theft of motor vehicle. In 2022, Montréal was the city with the third highest number of property crimes in Canada, behind Toronto and Vancouver.

The total number of homicides by shooting in Canada was 289 in 2023. Between 1974 and 2023, the total number rose by six, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.