How many mischief incidents are there in Brampton?
Brampton, ON recorded 1,941 mischief incidents in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 295.7 per 100,000 residents.
Wilful damage to property. Brampton residents also search for this category as vandalism, property damage and graffiti — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 5,695 mischief incidents 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 mischief incidents by year, 2023–2026
Brampton mischief incidents peaked in 2025 with 1,941. 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 mischief incidents happen in Brampton?
Across the whole period, Brampton mischief incidents cluster in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 37% of them. The busiest individual hour is 1am.
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 mischief incidents happen in Brampton?
Mischief incidents in Brampton are spread fairly evenly across the week. Monday is marginally the busiest at 15%, but an even split would be 14.3% — the gap isn't big enough to call a pattern.
What time of year do mischief incidents peak in Brampton?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. June is the busiest month for mischief incidents in Brampton with 569 across the whole period, and July is the quietest with 379.
Brampton mischief incidents: common questions
How many mischief incidents are there in Brampton?
Brampton, ON recorded 1,941 mischief incidents in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 295.7 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 5,695 mischief incidents recorded in Brampton between August 2023 and September 2026 — every incident Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are mischief incidents going up or down in Brampton?
Brampton mischief incidents peaked in 2025 with 1,941. The most recent figure is 1,375 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 mischief incidents happen in Brampton?
Most Brampton mischief incidents happen in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 37% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 1am. 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 mischief incidents happen in Brampton?
Mischief incidents in Brampton are spread fairly evenly across the week. Monday is marginally the busiest at 15% of the total, but an even split would be 14.3%, so the difference is not meaningful.
What time of year do mischief incidents peak in Brampton?
Adding every year together, June is the busiest month for mischief incidents in Brampton (569 across the whole period) and July is the quietest (379).
How common are mischief incidents compared to other crime in Brampton?
Mischief makes up 16.1% of all crime recorded in Brampton over this period — 5,695 of 35,477 incidents.
What is the mischief incident rate in Brampton?
Brampton recorded 295.7 mischief incidents 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 mischief incident data cover?
These figures cover 5,695 mischief incidents 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.