In 2025, Durham Regional Police Service recorded 1,705 incidents in Oshawa. Reported records rose from a base of 18 incidents in 2024, though annual totals reflect open-data reporting activity rather than per-capita risk. Assault was the leading category with 726 offences, followed by theft from vehicle with 355, break and enter with 214, and auto theft with 209. All 125 incidents under the Other category were Traffic & MVC.
In 2025 Oshawa recorded 1,705 reported incidents, a surge of 9,372.2% from the 18 incidents logged in 2024. This dramatic increase reflects the full‑archive calendar‑year total for 2025, not a partial reporting window. The page summarizes the city‑wide dataset, detailing the top offence categories, their counts, and how this year ranks within the ten‑year archive.
Readers can explore category‑specific pages, compare year‑over‑year trends, and see how Oshawa’s figures fit within the Durham Region context. All figures are incident counts as published by the Durham Regional Police Service and should be interpreted as reporting totals, not measures of risk. The dataset also notes that the “Other” category consists entirely of Traffic & MVC incidents for this year.
Compared with 2024, Oshawa’s total incidents rose from 18 to 1,705, representing a 9,372.2% increase. While the prior year’s count was very low, the 2025 figure encompasses the full calendar year and is the highest of the ten‑year span. This leap underscores that the year‑over‑year percentage is driven by a tiny base rather than a proportional crime surge. The 2025 total also accounts for 50.6% of the city’s overall archive of 3,371 incidents.
Assault dominates Oshawa’s 2025 crime mix with 726 incidents, while property‑theft offences—Theft from vehicle, Break and enter, and Auto theft—collectively account for over half of all reports. The “Other” category is fully explained by Traffic & MVC incidents, highlighting a clear focus on motor‑vehicle‑related events. With a rank of 1, this year holds the highest incident total in the ten‑year archive, but the staggering 9,372.2% YoY jump is mainly a statistical artefact of the extremely low 2024 baseline rather than a genuine crime explosion.
The dataset shows 1,705 incidents were reported in Oshawa during the 2025 calendar year, representing the city’s total count for that period.
Incidents increased dramatically, rising from 18 in 2024 to 1,705 in 2025, an increase of 9,372.2% according to the year‑over‑year change reported.
Assault topped the list with 726 recorded incidents, followed by Theft from vehicle (355) and Break and enter (214).
All figures are sourced from the Durham Regional Police Service open‑data portal for Oshawa, Ontario (ON).
Data sourced from Durham Regional Police Service open‑data portal, Ontario (ON).