How many assaults are there in Mississauga?
Mississauga, ON recorded 3,031 assaults in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 422.2 per 100,000 residents.
Physical attacks on a person, from police-reported assault categories. Mississauga residents also search for this category as attacks, violent assaults and assault charges — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 8,931 assaults recorded in Mississauga 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.
Mississauga assaults by year, 2023–2026
Mississauga assaults peaked in 2025 with 3,031. 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 assaults happen in Mississauga?
Across the whole period, Mississauga assaults cluster in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 32% of them. The busiest individual hour is 6pm.
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 assaults happen in Mississauga?
Assaults in Mississauga are spread fairly evenly across the week. Saturday is marginally the busiest at 16%, but an even split would be 14.3% — the gap isn't big enough to call a pattern.
What time of year do assaults peak in Mississauga?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. September is the busiest month for assaults in Mississauga with 869 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 650.
Mississauga assaults: common questions
How many assaults are there in Mississauga?
Mississauga, ON recorded 3,031 assaults in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 422.2 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 8,931 assaults recorded in Mississauga between August 2023 and September 2026 — every incident Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are assaults going up or down in Mississauga?
Mississauga assaults peaked in 2025 with 3,031. The most recent figure is 1,853 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 assaults happen in Mississauga?
Most Mississauga assaults happen in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 32% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 6pm. 12am 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 assaults happen in Mississauga?
Assaults in Mississauga are spread fairly evenly across the week. Saturday is marginally the busiest at 16% of the total, but an even split would be 14.3%, so the difference is not meaningful.
What time of year do assaults peak in Mississauga?
Adding every year together, September is the busiest month for assaults in Mississauga (869 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (650).
How common are assaults compared to other crime in Mississauga?
Assault makes up 23.1% of all crime recorded in Mississauga over this period — 8,931 of 38,634 incidents.
What is the assault rate in Mississauga?
Mississauga recorded 422.2 assaults per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on a population of 717,961. Rates are only calculated for complete years, since a partial year isn't comparable.
What period does this Mississauga assault data cover?
These figures cover 8,931 assaults recorded in Mississauga 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.