In 2022, Vancouver recorded 36,078 total reported incidents, representing a 103.9% increase from 17,693 incidents in 2021. Theft led all categories with 9,062 incidents, followed by assault with 7,817 and theft from vehicle with 7,067 incidents. These annual totals reflect open data reporting rather than per-capita risk. The year 2022 accounted for 20.1% of the 179,819 total incidents in the full six-year dataset.
In 2022, Vancouver recorded 36,078 reported incidents across the city's open-data tracking system. This count represents a 103.9% year-over-year increase compared to the 17,693 total incidents recorded in 2021. Annual totals reflect changes in documented police reporting and open-data availability rather than per-capita risk.
This summary examines Vancouver's 2022 open-data records in detail, outlining incident distribution across primary categories such as Theft, Assault, Theft from vehicle, and Mischief. The 2022 total of 36,078 incidents accounts for 20.1% of Vancouver's 179,819 total archive incidents recorded across six years from 2021 to 2026. Understanding these specific category distributions helps ground municipal comparisons in verified open-data figures for British Columbia.
Vancouver's 2022 dataset contains 36,078 logged incidents, showing a 103.9% increase compared to the 17,693 incidents recorded in 2021. Across the city's six-year dataset spanning from 2021 to 2026, 2022 ranks 2nd overall out of 6 total years in incident volume, positioned behind 2023 which logged 37,779 incidents. The 36,078 incidents recorded in 2022 make up 20.1% of the 179,819 overall city total in the open-data repository. Readers examining these year-over-year variations should note that annual totals reflect open-data reporting and administrative logging rather than per-capita risk.
In Vancouver's 2022 data, property-related offences and interpersonal incidents led the annual breakdown, with Theft (9,062) and Assault (7,817) representing the largest individual categories. With 36,078 incidents, 2022 stands as the second-highest year in the city's six-year dataset, exceeding 2021 (17,693) and trailing only 2023 (37,779). Theft from vehicle (7,067) and Mischief (5,443) also contributed significantly to the 2022 figure, which makes up 20.1% of Vancouver's 179,819 recorded multi-year total.
Vancouver recorded 36,078 reported incidents in 2022 across all tracked categories in the city's open-data collection. This single-year total accounts for 20.1% of Vancouver's 179,819 total incidents logged across the entire six-year dataset spanning from 2021 through 2026.
In 2022, Vancouver recorded a 103.9% increase in reported incidents compared to 2021, rising from 17,693 incidents in 2021 to 36,078 in 2022. Across the 2021 to 2026 dataset, 2022 ranks second overall out of six years, positioned behind 2023 which recorded 37,779 incidents.
The top incident category in Vancouver during 2022 was Theft, with 9,062 reported cases. Other major categories in 2022 included Assault with 7,817 incidents, Theft from vehicle with 7,067 incidents, Mischief with 5,443 incidents, and Break and enter with 3,224 incidents.
The figures for 2022 originate from municipal open-data releases for Vancouver, British Columbia (BC). The dataset aggregates published municipal records totaling 36,078 incidents for 2022, forming part of a broader archive of 179,819 incidents spanning from 2021 to 2026.
Data is compiled from municipal open-data publications for Vancouver, BC.