In 2016, Toronto recorded 28,829 total reported crime incidents, representing a 1% increase from 28,557 incidents in 2015. Year-over-year changes reflect reported incident totals rather than per-capita risk. Assault was the most reported category with 15,210 incidents, followed by break and enter at 6,239, auto theft at 3,145, robbery at 2,831, theft at 788, and shooting at 392 incidents. Across all years, Toronto has recorded 425,545 incidents.
In 2016, Toronto recorded 28,829 police-reported incidents in the open-data archive, representing a 1% increase from the 28,557 incidents logged in 2015. Annual changes in these totals reflect official police reporting practices rather than direct per-capita risk to residents across the municipality.
This summary examines the complete 2016 dataset for Toronto, Ontario, outlining specific offence categories and historical contextual positioning within the city archive. During 2016, the logged count accounted for 6.8% of Toronto's 425,545 full-archive incidents recorded between 2000 and 2026. Readers can analyze the distribution of top categories, including 15,210 assault incidents and 6,239 break and enter incidents, to observe how reported events were categorized in official records for that calendar year.
During 2016, Toronto logged 28,829 total incidents, compared to 28,557 incidents recorded in 2015. This reflects a 1% year-over-year increase between the two consecutive full-archive calendar years. Readers should note that annual counts reflect open-data reporting volume rather than per-capita risk across the population. In the context of Toronto's full dataset spanning 2000 to 2026 across 27 total years, 2016 ranks 10th in annual volume. The 2016 total of 28,829 incidents accounts for 6.8% of the city's 425,545 overall archived records.
Toronto's 2016 data was dominated by assault with 15,210 recorded incidents, followed by break and enter at 6,239 and auto theft at 3,145. Ranking 10th out of 27 archived years, 2016 sits midway in the city's historical sequence between 2000 and 2026. The 2016 total of 28,829 incidents shows a period of stable volume alongside 2014 (28,320) and 2015 (28,557), prior to higher totals recorded in subsequent years like 2023 (42,969).
In 2016, Toronto recorded 28,829 open-data incidents in official police logs. This annual count accounts for 6.8% of the city's 425,545 total archived incidents logged between 2000 and 2026. Out of 27 recorded years in the dataset, 2016 ranks 10th in overall incident volume.
Recorded incidents in Toronto increased by 1% in 2016 compared to the previous year. The total rose from 28,557 incidents in 2015 to 28,829 incidents in 2016. These figures reflect open-data police reporting volume across full calendar years rather than per-capita risk measurements.
The highest category in Toronto for 2016 was assault, with 15,210 recorded incidents. Other major categories in 2016 included break and enter with 6,239 incidents, auto theft with 3,145 incidents, robbery with 2,831 incidents, theft with 788 incidents, and shooting with 392 incidents.
The 2016 dataset originates from municipal open-data releases for Toronto, Ontario (ON). These public statistics record officially logged incidents, totaling 28,829 in 2016 and forming part of Toronto's broader 425,545 incident archive spanning 27 total years from 2000 through 2026.
Data for Toronto, ON is sourced from official municipal open-data records.