How many car thefts are there in Mississauga?
Mississauga, ON recorded 2,552 car thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 355.5 per 100,000 residents.
Theft of a motor vehicle. Mississauga residents also search for this category as stolen cars, vehicle thefts, auto thefts and cars stolen — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 9,220 car thefts 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 car thefts by year, 2023–2026
Mississauga car thefts peaked in 2024 with 3,385. 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 car thefts happen in Mississauga?
Across the whole period, Mississauga car thefts cluster in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 39% of them. The busiest individual hour is 9pm.
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 car thefts happen in Mississauga?
Friday is the most common day for car thefts in Mississauga, at 16% of the total — 13% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do car thefts peak in Mississauga?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. September is the busiest month for car thefts in Mississauga with 906 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 654.
Mississauga car thefts: common questions
How many car thefts are there in Mississauga?
Mississauga, ON recorded 2,552 car thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 355.5 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 9,220 car thefts recorded in Mississauga between August 2023 and September 2026 — every incident Peel Regional Police Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are car thefts going up or down in Mississauga?
Mississauga car thefts peaked in 2024 with 3,385. The most recent figure is 1,639 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 car thefts happen in Mississauga?
Most Mississauga car thefts happen in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 39% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 9pm. 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 car thefts happen in Mississauga?
Friday is the most common day for car thefts in Mississauga, accounting for 16% of them — 13% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do car thefts peak in Mississauga?
Adding every year together, September is the busiest month for car thefts in Mississauga (906 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (654).
How common are car thefts compared to other crime in Mississauga?
Auto theft makes up 23.9% of all crime recorded in Mississauga over this period — 9,220 of 38,634 incidents.
What is the car theft rate in Mississauga?
Mississauga recorded 355.5 car thefts 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 car theft data cover?
These figures cover 9,220 car thefts 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.