In 2005, Toronto recorded 278 total reported incidents in the open dataset, representing a 27.5% increase from 218 incidents in 2004. Shooting was the primary category recorded that year with 252 incidents, followed by assault with 24 incidents. Break and enter and theft recorded 1 incident each. Note that annual totals reflect open-data reporting and archiving patterns rather than changes in per-capita risk.
Toronto's open-data archive for 2005 contains 278 reported incidents, up 27.5 per cent from 218 records in 2004. That puts 2005 at rank 20 out of the 27 years with recorded totals in the city dataset. This page explains the 2005 count, its year-over-year change, and the leading categories in that year.
The 2005 total is dominated by Shooting records: 252 of the year's 278 records fall into that category. Assault accounts for 24 records, while Break and enter and Theft each account for 1. These are full-calendar-year totals for 2005 only, and they are not a 60-day or rolling map-window figure.
In 2004, Toronto logged 218 records; in 2005, it logged 278, a 27.5 per cent increase. The year continues a pattern of rising numbers after the archive recorded 17 incidents in 2003. On this page, the 2005 total is compared only with the previous calendar year, and that comparison should be read as a change in reported incidents, not a per-capita risk. The full city archive contains 425,545 records across all years, with later years such as 2014 onward reaching thousands of records per year.
Shooting accounts for 252 of 2005's 278 records, making it the defining category for this year rather than a mixed picture. Assault adds 24 records, and Break and enter and Theft are single-record categories. With a 27.5 per cent increase from 2004, 2005 still ranks 20th of 27 years in the city dataset, reflecting how low early-2000s totals are compared with later years. The year is also notable for a steep jump from 17 records in 2003 to 218 in 2004, with 2005 continuing that upward move.
The 2005 open-data archive contains 278 reported incidents for Toronto. That is the full-calendar-year total for 2005, not a partial map-window figure. The count covers all categories in the year's dataset and can be compared with the 218 incidents listed for 2004.
Higher. Toronto went from 218 reported incidents in 2004 to 278 in 2005, a 27.5 per cent increase. The change reflects reported records in the archive, so it should be read as a count comparison, not a per-capita rate. The increase came in a year when Shooting records were the largest share of the total.
Shooting was the top category in 2005, with 252 of the year's 278 records. Assault followed with 24 records. Break and enter and Theft each had 1 record. The category counts are for 2005 only, so they should not be conflated with category totals from other years.
This page uses counts from the upstream open-data source for Toronto, Ontario (ON). The figures are drawn from a city-wide archive covering 2000 through 2026 and containing 425,545 records in total. The 2005 total is one calendar year within that archive.
Counts are sourced from the upstream open-data archive for Toronto, Ontario (ON).