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| 2 | homicides, by census metropolitan area, 2016 and 2017 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | census metropolitan area | 2017 population count | 2017 |  | 2016r |  | difference from 2016 |  | average 2007 to 2016 |  |
| 4 |  | number | number of victims | rate | number of victims | rate | number of victims | percent change in rate | number of victims | rate |
| 5 | population 500,000 and over |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 6 | toronto | 6,273,778 | 92 | 1.47 | 96 | 1.56 | -4 | -5.8 | 89 | 1.54 |
| 7 | montreal | 4,148,023 | 46 | 1.11 | 42 | 1.02 | 4 | 8.2 | 47 | 1.21 |
| 8 | vancouver | 2,572,179 | 52 | 2.02 | 41 | 1.61 | 11 | 25.4 | 46 | 1.93 |
| 9 | calgary | 1,494,086 | 31 | 2.07 | 33 | 2.25 | -2 | -7.6 | 27 | 2.10 |
| 10 | edmonton | 1,405,619 | 49 | 3.49 | 47 | 3.40 | 2 | 2.5 | 38 | 3.02 |
| 11 | ottawa | 1,034,893 | 14 | 1.35 | 24 | 2.37 | -10 | -42.9 | 11 | 1.18 |
| 12 | winnipeg | 810,099 | 24 | 2.96 | 25 | 3.14 | -1 | -5.7 | 29 | 3.69 |
| 13 | quebec | 805,502 | 10 | 1.24 | 1 | 0.12 | 9 | 893.3 | 4 | 0.47 |
| 14 | hamilton | 771,489 | 11 | 1.43 | 12 | 1.58 | -1 | -9.7 | 9 | 1.30 |
| 15 | kitchener-cambridge-waterloo | 559,714 | 5 | 0.89 | 6 | 1.09 | -1 | -18.1 | 5 | 1.03 |
| 16 | london | 524,581 | 7 | 1.33 | 8 | 1.55 | -1 | -13.9 | 7 | 1.35 |
| 17 | population 100,000 to less than 500,000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 18 | st. catharines-niagara | 458,986 | 3 | 0.65 | 1 | 0.22 | 2 | 196.8 | 4 | 0.94 |
| 19 | oshawa | 450,366 | 5 | 1.11 | 4 | 0.93 | 1 | 19.3 | 3 | 0.77 |
| 20 | halifax | 431,721 | 8 | 1.85 | 12 | 2.82 | -4 | -34.4 | 10 | 2.45 |
| 21 | victoria | 377,551 | 5 | 1.32 | 1 | 0.27 | 4 | 393.9 | 4 | 1.12 |
| 22 | windsor | 338,403 | 3 | 0.89 | 3 | 0.90 | 0 | -1.1 | 3 | 1.03 |
| 23 | gatineau | 335,028 | 1 | 0.30 | 3 | 0.91 | -2 | -67.0 | 3 | 1.08 |
| 24 | saskatoon | 328,835 | 5 | 1.52 | 10 | 3.12 | -5 | -51.3 | 8 | 2.63 |
| 25 | regina | 253,630 | 8 | 3.15 | 8 | 3.23 | 0 | -2.2 | 7 | 3.15 |
| 26 | barrie | 221,854 | 5 | 2.25 | 2 | 0.92 | 3 | 145.1 | 2 | 0.93 |
| 27 | st. john's | 208,192 | 3 | 1.44 | 4 | 1.92 | -1 | -25.1 | 2 | 0.91 |
| 28 | sherbrooke | 202,158 | 1 | 0.49 | 2 | 1.00 | -1 | -50.6 | 1 | 0.47 |
| 29 | kelowna | 200,908 | 6 | 2.99 | 6 | 3.03 | 0 | -1.3 | 4 | 1.90 |
| 30 | abbotsford-mission | 190,730 | 9 | 4.72 | 6 | 3.18 | 3 | 48.3 | 4 | 2.44 |
| 31 | kingston | 169,901 | 1 | 0.59 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | .. | 1 | 0.80 |
| 32 | saguenay | 166,715 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 1.20 | -2 | -100.0 | 1 | 0.82 |
| 33 | greater sudbury | 164,926 | 1 | 0.61 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1.15 |
| 34 | moncton | 159,464 | 1 | 0.63 | 1 | 0.63 | 0 | -1.1 | 1 | 0.91 |
| 35 | trois-rivieres | 157,622 | 1 | 0.63 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1.11 |
| 36 | brantford | 148,605 | 5 | 3.36 | 4 | 2.73 | 1 | 23.4 | 1 | 0.92 |
| 37 | guelph | 135,474 | 1 | 0.74 | 1 | 0.75 | 0 | -1.8 | 1 | 0.79 |
| 38 | saint john | 128,726 | 1 | 0.78 | 3 | 2.34 | -2 | -66.8 | 2 | 1.64 |
| 39 | peterborough | 125,666 | 1 | 0.80 | 2 | 1.61 | -1 | -50.6 | 1 | 1.15 |
| 40 | thunder bay | 120,693 | 7 | 5.80 | 8 | 6.62 | -1 | -12.4 | 5 | 4.04 |
| 41 | cma total | 25,876,117 | 422 | 1.63 | 418 | 1.64 | 4 | -0.5 | 386 | 1.61 |
| 42 | non-cma total | 10,831,966 | 238 | 2.20 | 194 | 1.80 | 44 | 22.0 | 192 | 1.82 |
| 43 | canada | 36,708,083 | 660 | 1.80 | 612 | 1.69 | 48 | 6.5 | 578 | 1.67 |

Question: in 2017, how many homicide victims did police report in canada's census metropolitan areas (cmas)?
Answer: 422

Question: in 2017, police reported 422 homicide victims in canada's census metropolitan areasnote4 (cmas), what was the difference in 2016?
Answer: 4

Question: despite the small increase, what was the cma rate (1.63 per 100,000 population) in 2017?
Answer: 1.63