Violence among children and adolescents is a highly important subject, especially because of the associated physical and psychological consequences. The present study focuses on community violence and aims to address the shortcomings of previous studies on the subject. Using on a population-based survey, this study provides a statistical portrait of community violence experienced by children and teenagers (6-17 years) from Quebec, while at that same time contributing to the operationalization and measurement of this type of victimization. More specifically, this study this study explores the factorial structure and internal coherence of the measure of community violence derived from the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) (Hamby & Finkelhor, 2004) in order to improve our understanding of the underlying structure of the community violence variables identified. It also documents the annual prevalence of various manifestations of community violence based on age and gender.