Nova Scotia
Overview
Nova Scotia is represented by 1 city on CrimeMaps.ca with a combined 1.2K+ crime incidents from official open-data portals spanning 2026.
Nova Scotia crime statistics
- Total incidents: 1,179
- Cities covered: 1
- Year range: 2026
- Largest city: Halifax with 1,179 incidents
Crime data in Nova Scotia comes from municipal police services and open-data portals. The province varies in coverage period and category detail.
About this dataset
- Reporting basis: Counts reflect incidents reported to police only. Under-reporting — especially for sexual assault, fraud, and minor theft — means actual incidence is higher than these figures show.
- Not a per-capita rate: City-level counts here are absolute incident totals. Comparing one city's count to another without normalising for population can mislead — see the Crime Severity Index for severity-weighted, population-adjusted rankings.
- Different coverage windows: Cities in this province may have different start dates and data recency. Read counts as selected-window totals, not directly comparable annual figures unless the page says so.
- Different taxonomies: Police services classify offences slightly differently. Our pipeline normalises labels into 13 standard categories, but the source taxonomies are not identical.