How many fraud cases are there in Brampton?
Brampton, ON recorded 2,163 fraud cases in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 329.5 per 100,000 residents.
Deception offences — often reported where the victim lives, not where it happened. Brampton residents also search for this category as scams, frauds and identity theft — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 5,983 fraud cases recorded in Brampton between August 2023 and September 2026 — every incident Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window. The first year is partial — incidents past the retention window are removed, so the record starts part-way through 2023 rather than on January 1.
Brampton fraud cases by year, 2023–2026
Brampton fraud cases peaked in 2025 with 2,163. The complete years here are 2024, 2025 — those are the ones directly comparable to each other. Pick a year for its own monthly breakdown, time-of-day pattern and areas.
* Partial year — not directly comparable to the complete years above.
What time of day do fraud cases happen in Brampton?
Across the whole period, Brampton fraud cases cluster in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 43% of them. The busiest individual hour is 3pm.
The spike at midnight in the chart below is a recording artifact, not a real pattern: when the time of an incident isn't known, the source system stores it as 00:00. It's left in the chart because removing it would misstate the totals, but it's excluded from the busiest-hour figure above.
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What day of the week do fraud cases happen in Brampton?
Monday is the most common day for fraud cases in Brampton, at 17% of the total — 16% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do fraud cases peak in Brampton?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. April is the busiest month for fraud cases in Brampton with 585 across the whole period, and August is the quietest with 389.
Brampton fraud cases: common questions
How many fraud cases are there in Brampton?
Brampton, ON recorded 2,163 fraud cases in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 329.5 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 5,983 fraud cases recorded in Brampton between August 2023 and September 2026 — every incident Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are fraud cases going up or down in Brampton?
Brampton fraud cases peaked in 2025 with 2,163. The most recent figure is 1,014 in 2026 so far, which covers a partial year. The complete years in this data are 2024, 2025, which are the ones directly comparable to each other.
What time of day do most fraud cases happen in Brampton?
Most Brampton fraud cases happen in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 43% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 3pm. 12am and 12pm is excluded from that figure: it is the time a records system writes when the real time is unknown, so it collects incidents that did not happen then.
What day of the week do most fraud cases happen in Brampton?
Monday is the most common day for fraud cases in Brampton, accounting for 17% of them — 16% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do fraud cases peak in Brampton?
Adding every year together, April is the busiest month for fraud cases in Brampton (585 across the whole period) and August is the quietest (389).
How common are fraud cases compared to other crime in Brampton?
Fraud makes up 16.9% of all crime recorded in Brampton over this period — 5,983 of 35,477 incidents.
What is the fraud case rate in Brampton?
Brampton recorded 329.5 fraud cases per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on a population of 656,480. Rates are only calculated for complete years, since a partial year isn't comparable.
What period does this Brampton fraud case data cover?
These figures cover 5,983 fraud cases recorded in Brampton between August 2023 and September 2026 — every incident Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window. The earliest year is partial because incidents older than the retention window are removed, so it starts part-way through the year rather than on January 1. Counts reflect what the portal published — a category a service doesn't publish is missing, which is not the same as zero.
Sourced from Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal. Counts reflect incidents the portal published and may differ from figures released elsewhere — missing is not the same as zero.