In 2024, York Regional Police recorded 10,538 total incidents in Markham, a 9% decrease from 11,577 incidents in 2023. This year-over-year change reflects annual police reporting totals rather than per-capita risk. Theft was the leading category with 2,622 incidents, followed by Fraud with 1,810 incidents and Assault with 1,205 incidents. Additionally, 1,975 incidents fell under Other, which included 447 threats and 305 harassment offences.
In 2024, Markham, Ontario recorded 10,538 total police-reported incidents. This annual figure represents a 9% decrease compared to the 11,577 incidents logged in 2023. Overall, the 2024 annual total accounts for 18.5% of the 56,820 total incidents logged in Markham's full-archive dataset across six tracked calendar years spanning from 2021 to 2026.
This page summarizes open-data statistics for the municipality of Markham during the 2024 calendar year, sourced directly from York Regional Police records. The narrative examines annual reporting changes, examines major incident categories like Theft, Fraud, and Assault, and highlights subcategories within Other crime such as Threats and Harassment to provide clear factual context for historical reporting across the city.
The 2024 total of 10,538 incidents marked a 9% decline from 2023, when York Regional Police logged 11,577 incidents in Markham. Prior to 2024, annual counts had steadily increased from 8,265 in 2021 and 9,887 in 2022, making 2023 the peak year in the dataset. Markham's 2024 figure ranks third overall among the six tracked years from 2021 to 2026. These annual totals reflect official police reporting counts rather than per-capita risk, as total volume can be influenced by changes in reporting practices, enforcement focus, or administrative data logging across different calendar years.
In 2024, Markham's open-data profile was led by Theft with 2,622 incidents, followed by Other with 1,975 and Fraud with 1,810. Within the Other category, person offences were prominent, led by 447 Threats and 305 Harassment incidents rather than unexplained residual entries. Ranking third overall among six archived years, 2024 broke a three-year upward trajectory from 2021 (8,265) through 2023 (11,577), driven primarily by decreases in major property and personal incident counts.
York Regional Police logged 10,538 total incidents in Markham during 2024. This total represents 18.5% of the 56,820 incidents recorded in the city's full dataset spanning six years from 2021 through 2026. The 2024 annual count ranks as the third highest total recorded in Markham over that six-year period.
Reported incidents in Markham decreased by 9% in 2024 compared to 2023, dropping from 11,577 incidents to 10,538. This decline followed two consecutive years of annual increases, when totals rose from 8,265 incidents in 2021 to 9,887 in 2022 before peaking in 2023.
Theft was the most common category in Markham in 2024 with 2,622 recorded incidents, followed by Fraud with 1,810 incidents and Assault with 1,205 incidents. Additionally, the Other category included 447 Threats and 305 Harassment incidents, which are classified as person offences in open-data records.
The data for 2024 is derived from open-data records published by York Regional Police, the municipal police service responsible for Markham, Ontario. The dataset includes 10,538 incidents logged across the municipality throughout 2024, forming part of a broader archive of 56,820 incidents tracked across six calendar years.
Data is sourced from official open-data incident records published by York Regional Police for Markham, ON.