20 Toronto Crime Statistics and Trends for 2026

Any­one con­cerned with pub­lic safe­ty — whether a home­own­er, renter, busi­ness own­er, or pol­i­cy­mak­er — should stay informed about crime trends in Toron­to.

At Pro­tec­tion Plus, we’ve ana­lyzed data from law enforce­ment, inde­pen­dent stud­ies, and crime report­ing to find 20 Toron­to crime sta­tis­tics you need to know. Under­stand­ing these stats will help you iden­ti­fy risks, improve home secu­ri­ty, enhance busi­ness secu­ri­ty, and keep you informed about crim­i­nal activ­i­ty.

Let’s dive in.

Toronto Crime Statistics — 2025 Overview

Crime data from the Toron­to Police Ser­vice (TPS) reveals:

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1. Homicides in Toronto plummeted roughly 55% in 2025

Fol­low­ing 85 report­ed mur­ders in 2024, there have been 38 mur­ders as of Dec. 21, 2025. For com­par­i­son, there were 73 homi­cides report­ed in 2023.

2. Assaults are the most common major crime in Toronto and continue to increase about 4% each year

Assaults rep­re­sent­ed about 54% of report­ed major crime indi­ca­tors (MCIs) as of late Decem­ber 2025, com­pared to 50.6% of MCIs by year end 2024. This fol­lows a con­sis­tent increase, as assaults com­prised about 46% of report­ed MCIs in 2023.

• In 2024, there were a total of 4,564 assaults with a weapon and 1,075 assaults with bod­i­ly harm report­ed.

3. Toronto auto thefts fell 25.5% to 7,044, the lowest level since 2021

Auto theft remains a notable crime issue in Toron­to, but its foot­print has shrunk con­sid­er­ably in 2025. As of late Decem­ber, police record­ed 7,044 vehi­cle thefts, the low­est annu­al total since 2021 and a sharp decline from recent years.

Auto thefts also make up a small­er share of over­all major crime. In 2025, the offence account­ed for 15.6% of major crime inci­dents, down from 27.7% in 2023 when car theft dom­i­nat­ed Toron­to crime sta­tis­tics.

• For con­text, 9,598 auto thefts were report­ed in 2024, high­light­ing how much vol­umes have cooled in a sin­gle year.

4. ​​Break-and-enter incidents fall to 5,927 in 2025, extending a multi-year decline

Break-and-enter reports con­tin­ued to drop in Toron­to in 2025, rein­forc­ing a down­ward pat­tern seen since last year. By late Decem­ber, police had record­ed 5,927 inci­dents — down 13.6% from the same point in 2024 and the low­est annu­al total in sev­er­al years.

• The decline fol­lows a mean­ing­ful reduc­tion in 2024, when reports fell 10.2% year over year, drop­ping from 7,644 in 2023 to 6,860.
• Tak­en togeth­er, the past two years indi­cate break­ing and enter­ing is becom­ing less fre­quent across the city, even as oth­er prop­er­ty crimes fluc­tu­ate.

5. Sexual violations remain elevated but have declined 11.7% following a spike in 2024

There were 3,138 report­ed sex­u­al vio­la­tions in Toron­to as of late Decem­ber 2025, com­pared to 3,506 reports by the same time the pre­vi­ous year and 3,558 by year end.

• This includes 2,574 reports of sex­u­al assault to date in 2025, down from 2,820 reports dur­ing the same peri­od the pre­vi­ous year.
• In 2024, there were a total of 2,866 sex­u­al assaults report­ed.

6. The surge in robberies since 2021 seems to be over, with robbery reports on track for the lowest levels since that year

By late Decem­ber 2025, police record­ed 2,531 rob­beries — putting the year on pace for the low­est total since 2021. That com­pares with 3,112 reports by the same point in 2024 (3,196 for the full year).

• There were 3,043 and 2,853 over the same peri­od in 2023 and 2022, respec­tive­ly, sug­gest­ing the wave of rob­beries over the past few years has large­ly tapered off.

7. Theft over $1,000 rises to 1,960 incidents in 2025, bucking broader crime declines

While most major crime indi­ca­tors fell in 2025, theft over $1,000 moved in the oppo­site direc­tion. As of Dec. 21, police record­ed 1,960 inci­dents, mark­ing a 6.5% increase year over year and mak­ing it the only major crime cat­e­go­ry to rise dur­ing the year.

• By the same point in 2024, there were 1,840 reports (1,872 by year end), while 2023 fin­ished with 1,736 inci­dents.
• Even as oth­er prop­er­ty and vio­lent crimes cooled in 2025, high-val­ue theft con­tin­ued to edge upward.

Toronto Crime Statistics and Trends — 5‑Year Breakdown

The fol­low­ing Toron­to crime sta­tis­tics are based on year-to-date reports from the TPS as of Dec. 21, 2025, with com­par­isons to the year-to-date in 2024 and crime trends since 2020.

8. Major crimes dropped 9.5% year over year, but total crimes have steeply risen over the past 5 years

Toron­to saw a wel­come decrease in major crimes in 2025. As of late Decem­ber 2025, near­ly all MCIs in the city had declined (except theft over $1,000) com­pared to the year-to-date in 2024, with 45,146 year­ly reports to date ver­sus 49,907 by the same month the pre­vi­ous year (51,006 total).

• By com­par­i­son, there were only 37,926 MCIs report­ed in 2021.

9. There were roughly 3 murders per 100,000 residents in 2024 — but 2025 is on track to halve that number

As of late Decem­ber 2025, there had been 38 mur­ders report­ed in the city of Toron­to, a steep decline of 54.8% over the 84 homi­cides report­ed dur­ing the same peri­od the pre­vi­ous year. By the end of 2024, one more homi­cide was record­ed, bring­ing the total to 85 homi­cides.

• Toron­to homi­cide sta­tis­tics reveal a sim­i­lar spike in the homi­cide rate in 2021, with 85 mur­ders record­ed that year.

10. Shooting incidents increased 33.6% to 461 in 2024, with 43 gun deaths — but have fallen 43.1% in 2025

There were 43 deaths and 120 injuries in Toron­to last year as shoot­ings sky­rock­et­ed from 345 in 2023 to 461 in 2024.

• This rep­re­sents a 48.3% increase in deaths year over year, but a 13.7% decrease in injuries.
• 2020 still holds the five-year high for shoot­ing inci­dents with 462. There were 39 police-report­ed gun deaths that year and 178 injuries.
• As of Dec. 21, 2025, there had been 257 shoot­ing events (a 43.1% decrease), 19 gun deaths and 98 injuries.
• Near­ly 90% of crime guns seized in Toron­to come from the U.S.
• Accord­ing to Sta­tis­tics Cana­da, approx­i­mate­ly one in sev­en shoot­ing inci­dents nation­wide are linked to tow-truck indus­try turf wars.

11. Robberies declined sharply in 2025, with reported incidents down 18.7% year over year

Toron­to crime sta­tis­tics show police logged 2,531 rob­beries by late Decem­ber, com­pared with 3,112 dur­ing the same stretch in 2024.

• Notably, few­er inci­dents involved weapons, as 694 rob­beries with a weapon were report­ed in 2025, down from 888 year-to-date in 2024 and well below the 912 record­ed for all of last year.

12. Auto thefts surged more than 48% in 2022 before peaking in 2023

Toronto’s auto theft prob­lem esca­lat­ed rapid­ly in the ear­ly 2020s before show­ing signs of cor­rec­tion. The first major spike came in 2022, when report­ed vehi­cle thefts jumped 48.2% year to date, mark­ing the begin­ning of a sus­tained surge across the city.

• The cri­sis peaked in 2023, with more than 12,300 auto thefts report­ed by late Decem­ber.
• While thefts remained ele­vat­ed in 2024, the decline seen in 2025 indi­cates the explo­sive growth that defined the past five years is eas­ing, even if auto theft remains above pre-pan­dem­ic lev­els.

13. Break-and-enter activity remains relatively stable over five years despite a 2023 spike

Viewed over a five-year peri­od, Toronto’s break-and-enter trends have been com­par­a­tive­ly steady, with one notable dis­rup­tion in 2023. That year saw the largest increase of the peri­od, with year-end totals ris­ing 25.27% over 2022 before retreat­ing in sub­se­quent years.

• More seri­ous cas­es have fol­lowed a sim­i­lar arc. Reports of break-and-enter with intent to com­mit a crime peaked in 2024 at 971 inci­dents, then declined in 2025, with 842 cas­es report­ed by late Decem­ber com­pared with 946 at the same point the year before.
• While short-term fluc­tu­a­tions remain, the broad­er trend sug­gests break-and-enter lev­els have not expe­ri­enced the same sus­tained esca­la­tion seen in oth­er prop­er­ty crimes.

14. Theft over $1,000 shows a steady multi-year climb rather than a single-year spike

Unlike crime cat­e­gories that surged and then cor­rect­ed, theft over $1,000 has fol­lowed a grad­ual upward tra­jec­to­ry over the past sev­er­al years. Annu­al totals rose from 1,736 inci­dents in 2023 to 1,872 in 2024, before con­tin­u­ing high­er in 2025.

• That trend was already vis­i­ble mid-year. By August 2025, police had logged 1,118 inci­dents, up from 1,033 over the same peri­od in 2024—a year-over-year increase of 8.4% at that point.
• The pat­tern sug­gests per­sis­tent growth dri­ven by cumu­la­tive pres­sure rather than a short-term surge.

Toronto Crime Statistics by Neighbourhood

TPS data reveals the Toron­to crime rate by neigh­bour­hood, show­ing how they ranked in 2025 based on the num­ber of MCI reports.

15. By late December 2025, West Humber-Clairville had the most MCI reports for the second year in a row — with 1,153 vs. 1,322 year over year

Here are the 10 Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods with the most MCI reports in 2025, with the per­cent­age of change since 2024:

1. West Humber/Clairville: 1,153 (12.8% decrease)
2. Mim­ico-Queensway: 1,124 (10.6% increase)
3. York Uni­ver­si­ty Heights: 915 (3.2% decrease)
4. Moss Park: 885 (3.4% decrease)
5. Yonge-Bay Cor­ri­dor: 827 (3.4% decrease)
6. Down­town Yonge East: 790 (16.9% decrease)
7. NSA: 746 (0.5% decrease)
8. Kens­ing­ton-Chi­na­town: 716 (13.6% decrease)
9. Welling­ton Place: 713 (5.9% decrease)
10. St. Lawrence — East Bayfront — The Islands: 670 (13.7% decrease)

16. Lambton Baby Point had the fewest MCIs for the second year in a row with 43 vs. 72 year over year

These 10 Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods saw the low­est MCI reports in 2025:

1. Lambton Baby Point: 43 (40.3% decrease)
2. Guild­wood: 70 (17.6% decrease)
3. Blake-Jones: 88 (12.9% decrease)
4. Wood­bine-Lums­den: 96 (10.3% increase)
5. For­est Hill South: 99 (27.2% decrease)
6. Maple Leaf: 100 (12.3% decrease)
7. For­est Hill North: 101 (7.3% decrease)
8. Hum­ber Heights-West­mount: 103 (18.3% decrease)
9. Kingsway South: 103 (22.6% decrease)
10. Broad­view North: 107 (25.2% decrease)

Violent Crime and Property Crime — Toronto and Ontario Ranked

A 2025 report from the Fras­er Insti­tute com­pares the rates of vio­lent crime and prop­er­ty crime in Toron­to and the Ontario cen­sus met­ro­pol­i­tan area (CMA) to nation­al crime trends.

17. By CMA, Toronto ranks 24th in violent crime

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Per 100,000 peo­ple in Toron­to, there were just over 200 vio­lent crimes from 2019–2020. This ranks Toron­to high­er than Cana­di­an cities like Que­bec and Ottawa, but low­er than cities like Edmon­ton, Mon­tre­al, Cal­gary, and Van­cou­ver.

• Win­nipeg has the high­est rate of vio­lent crimes, with rough­ly 670 offences per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion.
• Mean­while, Sher­brooke has the low­est rate, with a fig­ure near 0.1%.
• The nation­al aver­age is approx­i­mate­ly 260 offences per 100,000 peo­ple.

18. Ontario ranks 4th in violent crime nationwide

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Over the past 20 years, Ontario, which includes Toron­to, has most­ly main­tained a rank of fourth in vio­lent crime among Cana­di­an CMAs.

• Saskatchewan and Man­i­to­ba have con­sis­tent­ly led in vio­lent crime since 2004, with rough­ly 500 offences per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion in 2022.
• Alber­ta and British Colum­bia also gen­er­al­ly have high­er rates of vio­lent crime than Ontario, with BC dip­ping below Ontario from 2017 to 2018.
• Gen­er­al­ly, vio­lent crime rates are low­est in Que­bec and Atlantic Cana­da (AC). AC includes provinces New­found­land and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Sco­tia, and New Brunswick.

19. Toronto ranks 27th in property crime nationwide

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In Toron­to from 2019 to 2022, the prop­er­ty crime rate was rough­ly 1,750 per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion. This places Toron­to high­er than major cities like Que­bec, Mon­tre­al, and Ottawa (Que­bec), but low­er than Ottawa (ON/QC), Hal­i­fax, Vic­to­ria, Cal­gary, Van­cou­ver, and oth­ers.

• The top three Cana­di­an cities with the high­est prop­er­ty crime rates are Regi­na, Saska­toon (5,500 per 100,000), Kelow­na, British Colum­bia (4,900 per 100,000), and Leth­bridge, Alber­ta (4,500 per 100,000).
• The nation­al aver­age for prop­er­ty crime is approx­i­mate­ly 2,500 per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion.

20. Ontario ranks 5th in property crime nationwide

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Ontario, which includes Toron­to, has long bat­tled the Atlantic CMA to rank fifth in prop­er­ty crime, with the CMAs fre­quent­ly switch­ing places in the rank­ings over the past two decades. The Atlantic CMA includes the east­ern provinces. The most recent data for Ontario shows a rate of about 2,000 prop­er­ty crimes per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion.

• Saskatchewan and Man­i­to­ba are near­ly tied with Alber­ta in prop­er­ty crime, lead­ing the nation with rough­ly 3,200 offences per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion.
• Prop­er­ty crime rates are low­est in British Colum­bia, with approx­i­mate­ly 1,000 offences per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion.

What These Toronto Crime Statistics Reveal

• Crime is cool­ing in key areas, but not even­ly. Most major crime indi­ca­tors declined in 2025, includ­ing homi­cides, rob­beries, auto thefts, and break-and-enters. These improve­ments sug­gest recent enforce­ment efforts and pre­ven­tion strate­gies are hav­ing mea­sur­able impact across Canada’s largest city.
• Vio­lent crime is becom­ing more con­cen­trat­ed by type. Assaults now account for more than half of all major crime inci­dents, mak­ing them the dom­i­nant dri­ver in Toron­to crime met­rics, even as shoot­ings and homi­cides fall sharply year over year.
• Prop­er­ty crime trends are diverg­ing. While auto theft and break-and-enter inci­dents declined, theft over $1,000 con­tin­ued to rise, stand­ing out as the only major crime cat­e­go­ry to increase in 2025. This points to shift­ing offend­er behav­iour rather than a uni­form drop in risk.
• Short-term gains sit atop long-term pres­sure. Although major crimes dropped near­ly 10% in 2025, over­all crime vol­umes remain well above ear­ly-2020s lev­els, under­scor­ing the impor­tance of track­ing both snap­shot data and five-year trends.
• Toron­to com­pares favourably nation­al­ly, but local risks remain. Crime rates in Toron­to remain low­er than many large Cana­di­an CMAs, yet neigh­bour­hood-lev­el dis­par­i­ties show that risk varies wide­ly depend­ing on loca­tion.

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