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Montreal crime in 2024

Montreal recorded 26,684 total incidents in 2024, representing a 6.9% decrease from 28,657 incidents reported in 2023. Auto theft was the most reported category with 7,084 incidents, followed by theft from vehicle with 6,475 incidents and mischief with 5,851 incidents. Annual totals reflect open-data reporting volume rather than per-capita risk. Overall, 2024 ranked fifth for total recorded incidents across the 12 years in the city's open dataset.

26,684
Incidents in 2024
9.2%
Share of selected city data
5 of 12
Rank among years
Auto theft
Top category
7,084 incidents
-6.9%
Year-over-year
vs 2023

Category mix in 2024

Auto theft 7,084
26.5% of 2024 incidents
24.3% of 2024 incidents
Mischief 5,851
21.9% of 2024 incidents
21.3% of 2024 incidents
Robbery 1,568
5.9% of 2024 incidents
0.1% of 2024 incidents

Montreal crime 2024

In 2024, the city of Montreal in Quebec recorded 26,684 police-reported incidents in its open-data collection, representing a 6.9% decrease from the 28,657 incidents logged in 2023. This annual count accounts for 9.2% of the total 288,658 incidents recorded in the full city archive across 12 tracking years between 2015 and 2026.

This page covers the incident dataset for Montreal during the full 2024 calendar year. It provides category breakdowns, highlighting major incident types such as auto theft with 7,084 entries and theft from vehicle with 6,475 entries. The dataset reflects recorded law enforcement reporting numbers rather than per-capita risk, offering a transparent summary of municipal open-data figures.

Year-over-year

Compared to 2023, when Montreal logged 28,657 incidents, the 2024 total of 26,684 incidents represents a 6.9% decrease. Across the 12 recorded years in the archive spanning from 2015 to 2026, 2024 ranks 5th in annual incident volume. Annual counts in Montreal ranged from 20,840 incidents in 2020 to 28,657 incidents in 2023, while 2018 recorded 22,584 incidents and 2019 logged 21,661 incidents. Readers should note that these year-over-year figures reflect annual police reporting and data collection rather than changes in per-capita risk.

Key stats

What these numbers mean

Property offences led Montreal's 2024 open-data mix, with auto theft accounting for 7,084 incidents and theft from vehicle reaching 6,475 incidents. Mischief followed with 5,851 incidents and break and enter recorded 5,684 incidents, while robbery logged 1,568 cases and homicide recorded 22. Although 2024 experienced a 6.9% drop from 2023's 28,657 incidents, the 2024 count of 26,684 incidents ranked 5th overall across the 12 tracking years, remaining above totals logged in 2018 through 2021.

About this dataset

Frequently asked questions about Montreal crime in 2024

How many incidents were reported in Montreal in 2024?

In 2024, Montreal recorded a total of 26,684 police-reported incidents in its open-data collection. This represents 9.2% of the city's overall archive total of 288,658 incidents recorded across 12 tracking years from 2015 to 2026. The 2024 total ranked 5th overall among all tracking years in the dataset.

Did reported incidents in Montreal increase or decrease in 2024?

Reported incidents in Montreal decreased by 6.9% in 2024 compared to 2023. The total fell from 28,657 incidents in 2023 to 26,684 incidents in 2024. Annual counts in the archive ranged from 20,840 in 2020 to 28,657 in 2023. Year-over-year figures reflect changes in official reporting, not per-capita risk.

What were the highest-volume incident categories in Montreal in 2024?

Auto theft was the highest-volume category in Montreal during 2024, with 7,084 recorded incidents. Theft from vehicle followed closely with 6,475 incidents. Other major categories in 2024 included mischief with 5,851 incidents, break and enter with 5,684 incidents, robbery with 1,568 incidents, and homicide with 22 incidents.

Where does the 2024 Montreal crime data come from?

The figures for Montreal, QC are drawn from official municipal open-data releases. The dataset contains 288,658 total incidents recorded across 12 tracking years between 2015 and 2026, including 26,684 incidents in 2024. These public records present logged incidents published by local authorities for transparency.

Sources

Data is sourced from the official municipal open-data portal for Montreal, QC.

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