In 2021, Prince George recorded 4,559 total reported incidents, representing 18.9% of the 24,181 incidents in the full city archive. Year-over-year comparison data is unavailable as 2021 marks the beginning of the local dataset series. Property-related offences comprised the highest category counts, with mischief ranking first at 1,351 reported incidents, followed by 1,059 thefts from vehicle and 983 general theft incidents during the calendar year.
In 2021, Prince George recorded 4,559 police-reported incidents in the municipal open-data archive. This page outlines the breakdown and category distribution of reported offences across Prince George, British Columbia, covering the complete 2021 calendar year. Note that these annual figures reflect raw reported incident totals published by law enforcement rather than per-capita risk measurements.
The 4,559 incidents logged during 2021 accounted for 18.9% of the 24,181 total recorded offences in Prince George across the full six-year dataset spanning 2021 to 2026. This page details the leading incident types recorded during 2021, which serves as the earliest calendar year available in the city archive.
During 2021, property-related offences formed the majority of logged incidents in Prince George. Mischief was the single highest recorded category with 1,351 incidents, followed by theft from vehicle with 1,059 incidents. Standard theft recorded 983 incidents, while break and enter accounted for 753 events. Vehicle-related crime also included 232 auto theft incidents and 150 bike theft incidents. Because 2021 marks the beginning of the open-data sequence for Prince George, no prior-year comparison is available in this archive. These numbers document all incidents published for the 2021 calendar year within municipal boundaries.
With 4,559 recorded incidents, 2021 ranks 3rd among the 6 years in the Prince George archive, lower than 2022 (4,915) and 2023 (4,712). Mischief led all categories in 2021 with 1,351 incidents, followed by theft from vehicle at 1,059 and general theft at 983. Break and enter recorded 753 incidents, while auto theft stood at 232 and bike theft at 150. These counts establish the initial baseline for open-data tracking in the city.
In 2021, Prince George recorded 4,559 total police-reported incidents in the municipal open-data archive. This total accounted for 18.9% of the 24,181 aggregate incidents documented across the city's entire six-year recorded dataset spanning from 2021 through 2026. These numbers reflect raw reported incident totals published by law enforcement rather than per-capita risk measures.
The 4,559 recorded incidents in 2021 make it the 3rd highest year out of 6 recorded years in Prince George. In subsequent years, logged totals were 4,915 in 2022, 4,712 in 2023, 4,109 in 2024, 3,753 in 2025, and 2,133 in 2026. Direct prior-year comparison is unavailable because 2021 is the earliest year in the dataset.
Mischief was the most frequently reported category in Prince George in 2021, with 1,351 incidents. Theft from vehicle was the second most common at 1,059 incidents, followed by theft with 983 incidents, break and enter with 753 incidents, auto theft with 232 incidents, and bike theft with 150 incidents.
The data for 2021 comes from official police open-data records published for Prince George, British Columbia (BC). The dataset covers 24,181 total reported incidents across the six archived years from 2021 to 2026. These figures represent raw incident counts processed for public reporting and do not measure per-capita rates.
Crime statistics for Prince George are compiled from police open-data portals published in BC.