In 2018, Montreal recorded 22,584 reported incidents in the city dataset, representing a 13.8% decrease compared to 26,207 incidents in 2017. Break and enter was the most reported category with 6,821 incidents, followed by theft from vehicle with 6,107 and mischief with 5,071. Note that annual totals reflect police reporting figures rather than per-capita risk. Overall, 2018 accounted for 7.8% of the 288,658 total recorded city archive incidents.
In 2018, Montreal, Quebec recorded 22,584 open-data incidents, marking a 13.8% decrease compared to the 26,207 incidents logged in 2017. It is important to note that these year-over-year totals reflect documented police reporting rather than per-capita risk.
This page examines Montreal's 2018 open-data record, which represents 7.8% of the 288,658 total incidents catalogued across the entire 2015 to 2026 dataset. The summary details leading category totals—including Break and enter, Theft from vehicle, Mischief, Auto theft, Robbery, and Homicide—to provide comprehensive context for 2018, which ranks eighth in total recorded volume out of 12 tracking years in the municipal archive for the city.
Montreal recorded 22,584 total incidents in 2018, down 13.8% from 26,207 incidents in 2017. This decline continued a multi-year downward trajectory seen in earlier annual records, following 28,102 incidents in 2015 and 27,024 in 2016. The 2018 total was also higher than the 2019 count of 21,661 and the 2020 count of 20,840, making 2018 part of a consecutive four-year decrease from 2015 through 2020. Overall, 2018 ranked eighth among the 12 years spanning 2015 through 2026, remaining well below the archive peak of 28,657 incidents logged in 2023.
In 2018, property offences led Montreal's open-data records, with Break and enter (6,821 incidents) and Theft from vehicle (6,107 incidents) forming the largest portions of the 22,584 total. Mischief also saw significant volume with 5,071 logged items, while violent categories remained lower, including 1,274 robberies and 23 homicides. Ranking eighth out of 12 recorded years between 2015 and 2026, 2018 reflected a lower total count than adjacent years such as 2017 (26,207) and 2022 (26,798).
Montreal documented 22,584 total incidents in its open-data portal during 2018. This figure represents 7.8% of the city's 288,658 recorded incidents across all tracked years in the open dataset from 2015 through 2026. The 2018 total placed the year eighth in volume among the 12 years in the collection.
Recorded incidents in Montreal decreased in 2018, falling 13.8% from 26,207 incidents in 2017 to 22,584 incidents in 2018. This reduction was part of a broader downward trend from 2015 (28,102 incidents) through 2020 (20,840 incidents), before counts rose again in subsequent years like 2023 when 28,657 incidents were logged.
Break and enter was the most frequently reported category in Montreal in 2018, with 6,821 incidents logged. Theft from vehicle was second with 6,107 incidents, followed by Mischief with 5,071 incidents and Auto theft with 3,288 incidents. Smaller categories included Robbery with 1,274 incidents and Homicide with 23 incidents.
The data comes from official municipal open-data releases published for Montreal, Quebec (QC). The dataset covers 22,584 incidents for the 2018 calendar year out of a total 288,658 recorded incidents across all tracked years from 2015 to 2026. These figures represent logged police interactions rather than unreported occurrences.
Incident figures are sourced from official municipal open-data releases for Montreal, QC.