In 2022, Toronto recorded 36,065 total reported crime incidents, representing a 19.5% increase compared to 30,168 incidents in 2021. Assault was the leading category with 17,740 incidents, followed by auto theft with 8,688 incidents and break and enter with 5,820 incidents. These annual totals reflect open-data police reporting rather than per-capita risk. The year ranked fourth highest for incident volume across the 27-year dataset spanning 2000 to 2026.
In 2022, Toronto recorded 36,065 reported incidents in the city archive, representing a 19.5% increase compared to the 30,168 incidents recorded in 2021. This annual total accounted for 8.5% of the 425,545 total incidents in Toronto's dataset across all 27 archive years spanning from 2000 to 2026. Note that these year totals reflect official open-data reporting volume rather than per-capita risk or full crime rates.
This page provides an overview of reported incident figures recorded across Toronto during the 2022 calendar year. It breaks down the primary categories logged by police services, including assault, auto theft, break and enter, robbery, theft, and shooting. Readers can examine detailed category breakdowns and compare annual totals within the dataset.
Comparing 2022 to the previous calendar year, reported incidents in Toronto rose by 19.5%, moving from 30,168 in 2021 to 36,065 in 2022. This upward movement in open-data entries represents an increase in recorded volume across categories. Annual totals in this dataset reflect municipal reporting activity rather than per-capita risk changes. Within the 27-year archive covering 2000 through 2026, the 2022 record volume ranks 4th overall. Higher annual figures were logged in 2023 with 42,969 incidents, 2024 with 40,445 incidents, and 2025 with 36,248 incidents.
In 2022, Toronto's 36,065 reported incidents positioned it as the 4th highest volume year in the 27-year archive. Assault led all categories with 17,740 recorded incidents, while auto theft accounted for 8,688 incidents and break and enter stood at 5,820. The 19.5% increase over 2021's 30,168 incidents marked a shift toward higher annual counts that continued into 2023, where totals reached 42,969. Robbery with 2,052 incidents and theft with 1,016 incidents rounded out the primary property and person category distributions for the year.
Toronto recorded 36,065 reported incidents during the 2022 calendar year. This figure represents 8.5% of the 425,545 total incidents contained in Toronto's full open-data archive across all 27 recorded years between 2000 and 2026. The 2022 figure reflects annual municipal reporting counts logged in official public safety records.
Reported incidents in Toronto increased in 2022 compared to the previous year. The total count rose by 19.5%, growing from 30,168 recorded incidents in 2021 to 36,065 in 2022. Year totals reflect open-data reporting and record filing volume rather than per-capita risk.
Assault was the most common category in Toronto during 2022, with 17,740 recorded incidents. Other top categories logged that year included auto theft with 8,688 incidents, break and enter with 5,820 incidents, robbery with 2,052 incidents, theft with 1,016 incidents, and shooting with 385 incidents.
The dataset originates from official open-data releases for Toronto, ON. It aggregates public safety incident records published through municipal open-data portals, covering 36,065 incidents in 2022 and a total of 425,545 incidents across the complete 2000 to 2026 archive period.
Data is compiled from official municipal open-data portals for Toronto, ON.