Toronto recorded 36,248 open-data police incidents in 2025, representing a 10.4% decrease from 40,445 reported incidents in 2024. Assault was the most prominent category with 20,196 recorded incidents, followed by auto theft with 6,250 incidents and break and enter with 5,877 incidents. Note that these annual totals reflect recorded police reporting volume across the city rather than individual per-capita risk levels for residents.
Toronto recorded 36,248 police-reported incidents in 2025, representing a 10.4% decline compared to the 40,445 incidents documented in 2024. These figures reflect full calendar-year open-data totals across all tracked categories for the city of Toronto, ON. As with all open-data archives, annual totals reflect reporting activity rather than per-capita risk.
This report outlines Toronto's 2025 dataset, detailing incident volumes, category distributions, and multi-year comparative trends across 27 years of open records from 2000 to 2026. It presents breakdowns for leading categories, including 20,196 assault incidents and 6,250 auto thefts, placing 2025 within the city's broader historical dataset of 425,545 total incidents.
Comparing 2025 to the preceding year reveals a 10.4% decline in total recorded incidents across Toronto. In 2024, open data logged 40,445 incidents, compared to 36,248 incidents in 2025. This decrease follows a higher annual volume of 42,969 incidents reported in 2023. Across the dataset's 27-year span from 2000 to 2026, 2025 ranks as the 3rd highest year by total incident volume. Readers must interpret these year-over-year shifts with context: annual incident totals reflect changes in recorded police data over full calendar years, not direct measurements of per-capita risk.
Assault dominated Toronto's 2025 incident breakdown with 20,196 reported cases, far exceeding auto theft (6,250) and break and enter (5,877). Despite a 10.4% drop from 2024's total of 40,445, 2025 remains the 3rd highest volume year out of 27 years in Toronto's open-data archive, representing 8.5% of the city's 425,545 historical incidents. Smaller categories like robbery (1,874), theft (1,436), and theft from vehicle (333) comprised a much smaller share of the annual count.
Toronto recorded 36,248 total police-reported incidents in 2025. This annual figure accounts for 8.5% of the city's 425,545 total incidents logged across the entire 27-year dataset from 2000 to 2026. The 2025 annual volume ranks 3rd highest overall among all recorded years in Toronto's open-data archive.
Reported incidents in Toronto decreased by 10.4% in 2025 compared to 2024. Open data recorded 36,248 incidents in 2025, down from 40,445 incidents in 2024 and 42,969 incidents in 2023. These totals measure changes in full calendar-year open-data reporting volume rather than direct shifts in per-capita risk.
Assault was the leading category in Toronto during 2025 with 20,196 recorded incidents. Auto theft was the second most frequent category with 6,250 incidents, followed by break and enter at 5,877 incidents. Robbery logged 1,874 incidents, while theft and theft from vehicle recorded 1,436 and 333 incidents, respectively.
The figures published for Toronto, ON originate from municipal open-data releases covering reported police incidents. The dataset spans 27 calendar years from 2000 through 2026, comprising a total archive of 425,545 recorded incidents. The 2025 annual total of 36,248 reflects completed calendar-year open-data logs for that period.
Incident figures for Toronto, ON are sourced directly from official municipal open-data releases.