In 2019, Montreal recorded 21,661 total incidents in the open dataset, representing a 4.1% decrease from 22,584 incidents in 2018. Year totals reflect police reporting rather than per-capita risk. Break and enter was the most frequent category with 6,465 incidents, followed by theft from vehicle at 5,600 and mischief at 4,894 incidents. Auto theft accounted for 3,298 incidents, robbery for 1,385, and homicide for 19.
In 2019, Montreal, Quebec recorded 21,661 total police-reported incidents in the municipal open-data archive, representing a 4.1% decrease from the 22,584 incidents logged in 2018. This full-archive calendar-year total accounts for 7.5% of the 288,658 total incidents recorded across all 12 years in the city dataset between 2015 and 2026. These figures reflect total reported incident counts rather than per-capita risk.
This archive page details the open-data incident breakdown for Montreal during the 2019 calendar year. It outlines top incident categories including break and enter, theft from vehicle, mischief, auto theft, robbery, and homicide. The page places 2019 within the broader historical context of the city's 12-year dataset spanning from 2015 to 2026.
During 2019, Montreal recorded 21,661 total incidents, representing a decline of 4.1% from the 22,584 incidents logged in 2018. This decrease continued a multi-year downward trend seen in the city's dataset from 2015 (28,102 incidents), 2016 (27,024 incidents), and 2017 (26,207 incidents). In 2019, 21,661 incidents represented the second-lowest annual count logged between 2015 and 2019, before totals dropped further to 20,840 in 2020. Across the entire 12-year dataset from 2015 to 2026, the 2019 count ranks 10th out of 12 total years.
Property-related categories accounted for the largest share of Montreal's 2019 open-data totals, with break and enter logging 6,465 incidents, theft from vehicle recording 5,600 incidents, and mischief registering 4,894 incidents. Auto theft followed with 3,298 incidents. Ranking 10th out of 12 years in the archive, 2019 marked the fifth consecutive annual reduction in incident counts from 2015 (28,102 incidents) through 2019 (21,661 incidents), prior to reaching 20,840 incidents in 2020.
A total of 21,661 incidents were recorded in Montreal during 2019 in the open-data dataset. This count represents 7.5% of the 288,658 total incidents logged across the city's entire 12-year dataset spanning from 2015 to 2026. Annual totals reflect reported incident records rather than per-capita risk.
Reported incidents in Montreal decreased by 4.1% in 2019 compared to 2018, falling from 22,584 incidents in 2018 to 21,661 incidents in 2019. This continued a multi-year decline from 2015, when 28,102 incidents were logged, before reaching a dataset low of 20,840 incidents in 2020.
The leading incident category in Montreal in 2019 was break and enter, with 6,465 recorded incidents. Theft from vehicle followed as the second highest category with 5,600 incidents, while mischief recorded 4,894 incidents, auto theft logged 3,298 incidents, robbery recorded 1,385 incidents, and homicide registered 19 incidents.
The data comes directly from municipal open-data releases published for Montreal, QC. The dataset contains 288,658 total incident records collected across a 12-year period from 2015 to 2026, with 2019 contributing 21,661 of those logged records to the full-archive calendar-year total.
Incident figures are sourced from official municipal open-data portals published for Montreal, QC.