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Canada Crime Trends

2026
Latest year in series
2018-2026
259,911
Incidents (latest year)
Open-data coverage window
-24.3%
YoY change
2025 → 2026
62
Cities in feed
Coverage varies by year

National incident totals by year

National incident totals by year Click a column header to sort
2026 259,911 -24.3%
2025 343,560 +39.5%
2024 246,280 +18.9%
2023 207,170 +17.0%
2022 177,094 +33.7%
2021 132,442 +90.4%
2020 69,576 -20.2%
2019 87,232 +10.6%
2018 78,906 +102.0%

Different cities joined CrimeMaps.ca in different years. Yearly totals reflect available open-data coverage, not a complete national historical series.

Biggest category risers (2025 → 2026)

Largest % increases · 2025 → 2026 Click a column header to sort
#
1 Theft from vehicle 15,881 -12.0%
2 Mischief 25,824 -13.9%
3 Theft 69,119 -15.0%
4 Break and enter 21,119 -20.6%
5 Other 48,884 -20.8%

Biggest category fallers (2025 → 2026)

Largest % decreases · 2025 → 2026 Click a column header to sort
#
1 Sexual assault 710 -56.7%
2 Fraud 12,682 -49.8%
3 Bike theft 822 -39.8%
4 Assault 40,980 -37.6%
5 Auto theft 19,432 -24.5%

City-level trends

Every city page shows its own year-over-year change, plus per-year pages at /city/[slug]/year/[year]. For severity-weighted rankings see Crime Severity Index.

Frequently asked questions

Is crime going up in Canada?

Based on the adjacent years currently available in our open-data window, total incidents moved down from 2025 to 2026. Per-category trends vary — see the tables above.

Why are early-year totals low?

Different cities joined our dataset at different times, and the public map is focused on rolling recent windows. Treat yearly totals as coverage by available open-data feed, not a complete national historical series.

How do you measure trends?

We sum incident counts by year across every city in our dataset and compute year-over-year percentage changes. Individual city pages show the same trend at the city level.

CrimeMaps.ca is an interactive crime map of Canada, aggregating crime incidents from 58+ Canadian cities into a single map. All data is sourced from official municipal and police open-data portals. No account is required.

Visit the national crime map overview or the interactive crime map.