From May 24, 2026, to July 23, 2026, Toronto recorded 6,779 incidents, whereas Vancouver recorded 5,493 incidents across the same date range. Assault represented the largest raw-count category difference between the two cities, with Toronto logging 3,589 incidents compared to 990 in Vancouver. Additionally, Vancouver recorded 2,934 theft-related incidents while Toronto recorded 1,802, and Toronto reported 824 break and enter incidents compared to 265 in Vancouver.
Between May 24, 2026 and July 23, 2026, Toronto recorded 6,779 total reported incidents, while Vancouver recorded 5,493 total reported incidents. Both municipalities cover an identical 61-day comparison period in this dataset, enabling a direct same-period comparison of police open-data records published by the respective police services.
Across this shared timeframe, category distributions varied notably between the two cities. Toronto's reported incidents were led by assault with 3,589 records, followed by theft-related incidents with 1,802 records and break and enter with 824 records. In contrast, Vancouver's highest volume category was theft-related incidents with 2,934 records, followed by assault with 990 records and mischief with 919 records. Furthermore, Toronto recorded 348 robbery incidents and 45 shooting incidents, while Vancouver logged 220 incidents classified in the other category and 165 bike theft incidents.
During the 61-day period from May 24, 2026 to July 23, 2026, Toronto logged a higher total incident volume with 6,779 reported incidents compared to 5,493 in Vancouver. The largest raw category difference occurred in assault, where Toronto recorded 3,589 incidents compared to 990 in Vancouver, representing a difference of 2,599 incidents. Conversely, Vancouver recorded a higher count of theft-related incidents at 2,934 compared to Toronto's 1,802, resulting in a difference of 1,132 incidents. Additionally, mischief showed a major variance with Vancouver recording 919 incidents while Toronto reported 0 mischief incidents in this open-data feed. Break and enter also differed, with Toronto recording 824 incidents compared to 265 in Vancouver, a difference of 559 incidents.
In this 61-day window, Toronto's incident total of 6,779 is driven heavily by assault (3,589 incidents), which represents the majority of its reported incidents. Conversely, Vancouver's 5,493 total incidents are led by theft-related incidents (2,934 incidents) and mischief (919 incidents). Category reporting variations also stand out between the datasets: Toronto reports 0 mischief incidents and Vancouver reports 0 robbery incidents in these feeds, highlighting distinct police classification taxonomies alongside differing crime category distributions across the two cities.
Between May 24, 2026 and July 23, 2026, Toronto recorded 6,779 total reported incidents, while Vancouver recorded 5,493 total reported incidents. These figures reflect police open-data feed entries published for both municipalities during the exact same 61-day timeframe analyzed across this comparative report.
Municipal police services update their open-data portals on varying schedule cycles, which means published windows do not always align. When reporting windows differ, comparative pages present independent snapshot totals rather than a direct same-period comparison. On this page, however, both Toronto and Vancouver cover the identical period from May 24, 2026 to July 23, 2026, tracking 6,779 incidents in Toronto and 5,493 in Vancouver.
In Toronto, assault was the highest volume category with 3,589 reported incidents during the 61-day window. In Vancouver, theft-related incidents formed the largest category with 2,934 reported incidents, followed by 990 assault incidents and 919 mischief incidents recorded in police open data.
To compare cities with different open-data reporting structures, vehicle-specific theft categories are merged into a single theft-related category. During this period, Vancouver logged 2,934 theft-related incidents compared to 1,802 in Toronto, while bike theft was reported separately with 170 incidents in Toronto and 165 in Vancouver.
Data is sourced directly from official municipal police open-data portals in Ontario and British Columbia.