Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) - All Years

The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics (CCJCSS), in co-operation with the policing community, collects police-reported crime statistics through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR). 

The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in Canadian society and its characteristics. The information is used by federal and provincial policy makers as well as public and private researchers.

UCR data reflect reported crime that has come to the attention of police. Information collected by the survey includes the number of criminal incidents, the clearance status of those incidents and persons-charged information. The UCR Survey produces a continuous historical record of crime and Federal traffic statistics reported by every police agency in Canada since 1962. In 1988, a new version of the survey was created, UCR2, and is since referred to as the "incident-based" survey, in which microdata on characteristics of incidents, victims and accused are captured. The years of UCR data available in the Research Data Centre (RDC) cover the period from 2009 to 2022. Reporting coverage varies slightly year to year and therefore the files cannot be used for trend analysis. Hate crime, organized crime/street gang involvement and cybercrime information is not currently available from the RDC files.

It is important to note that there have been a few notable changes since the UCR data were last available on the repository:

1. Effective January 2018, new standards for reporting incidents by clearance status were established for the UCR Survey and disseminated to all police service respondents, with most police services updating their information systems throughout 2018. The 2019 data are the first year of complete data that follows the new reporting standards. This shift in reporting methodology has been documented in technical publications released by Statistics Canada on July 12, 2018.
2. The collection of gender information has been expanded to include gender diverse information; however, researchers are asked to pay close attention to the vetting requirements.
3. The Canadian Forces Military Police (CFMP) became an active respondent to the UCR survey in 2022 and are required to provide the same information provided by other police services. They have provided incidents going back to January 2020.