In 2022, Montreal recorded 26,798 open-data incidents, representing a 21.5% increase from the 22,057 incidents logged in 2021. Annual totals reflect police reporting volume rather than per-capita risk. Auto theft emerged as the leading category with 7,742 recorded incidents, followed by theft from vehicle at 7,019 and break and enter at 5,645 incidents. The year accounted for 9.3% of the city's overall archive of 288,658 recorded incidents.
In 2022, Montreal, Quebec logged 26,798 total reported incidents in its municipal open-data archive. This annual figure represents a 21.5% increase compared to 22,057 incidents reported in 2021. Annual counts document official reported incidents in open data rather than per-capita risk across the city.
This page details Montreal's 2022 incident distribution across major published categories, including 7,742 auto thefts and 7,019 thefts from vehicles. The dataset also includes 5,645 break and enter records, 4,939 mischief incidents, 1,422 robberies, and 31 homicides. The 2022 total of 26,798 incidents accounts for 9.3% of the 288,658 total incidents recorded in the city's full on-disk archive spanning 2015 through 2026.
Comparing 2022 to the previous calendar year shows an upward shift in reported incident counts for Montreal. The city registered 26,798 reported incidents in 2022, representing a 21.5% increase from the 22,057 incidents published in 2021. Both 2021 and 2022 reflect full calendar years of open data. The 2022 total followed a period of lower annual counts, including 2020 with 20,840 incidents, 2019 with 21,661 incidents, and 2018 with 22,584 incidents. By comparison, 2022 approached figures recorded in earlier archive years, such as 2016 with 27,024 incidents and 2017 with 26,207 incidents.
In 2022, vehicle-related offences led Montreal's open-data record mix, with auto theft (7,742) and theft from vehicle (7,019) standing out as the top two reported categories. The 2022 total of 26,798 incidents ranked 4th highest among the 12 archive years from 2015 to 2026. This 21.5% increase over 2021's 22,057 incidents reversed a three-year plateau seen from 2018 to 2020, bringing annual volume closer to levels recorded in 2016 (27,024) while property offences remained the dominant share of reported records.
In 2022, Montreal documented 26,798 total reported incidents in its municipal open-data repository. This annual count accounts for 9.3% of the 288,658 overall incidents published in the city's full on-disk archive across 12 recorded years spanning 2015 through 2026.
Reported incidents in Montreal increased by 21.5% in 2022 compared to 2021. The city registered 26,798 incidents in 2022, up from 22,057 incidents recorded in 2021. The 2022 annual total ranked 4th highest out of the 12 archive years in the dataset.
Auto theft was the leading reported category in Montreal in 2022 with 7,742 incidents, followed closely by theft from vehicle with 7,019 incidents. Other prominent categories included break and enter with 5,645 incidents, mischief with 4,939, robbery with 1,422, and homicide with 31 recorded incidents.
These statistics are sourced from the official Montreal open-data portal in Quebec (QC), which publishes municipal incident records. The dataset for 2022 covers 26,798 incidents as part of an archive of 288,658 total records logged between 2015 and 2026.
Data is sourced from Montreal's official municipal open-data portal in Quebec (QC).