How many robberies are there in Montreal?
Montreal, QC recorded 1,688 robberies in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 95.7 per 100,000 residents.
Theft involving force or the threat of force. Montreal residents also search for this category as muggings, armed robberies and holdups — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 7,810 robberies recorded in Montreal between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Données Montréal (SPVM) has published in that window. The first year is partial — incidents past the retention window are removed, so the record starts part-way through 2021 rather than on January 1.
Montreal robberies by year, 2021–2026
Montreal robberies peaked in 2025 with 1,688. The complete years here are 2022, 2023, 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 robberies happen in Montreal?
Données Montréal (SPVM) publishes a work shift rather than an exact hour, so this is as precise as the source data gets.
What day of the week do robberies happen in Montreal?
Robberies in Montreal are spread fairly evenly across the week. Tuesday 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 robberies peak in Montreal?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. March is the busiest month for robberies in Montreal with 733 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 586.
Montreal robberies: common questions
How many robberies are there in Montreal?
Montreal, QC recorded 1,688 robberies in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 95.7 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 7,810 robberies recorded in Montreal between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Données Montréal (SPVM) has published in that window.
Are robberies going up or down in Montreal?
Montreal robberies peaked in 2025 with 1,688. The most recent figure is 1,084 in 2026 so far, which covers a partial year. The complete years in this data are 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, which are the ones directly comparable to each other.
What time of day do most robberies happen in Montreal?
Données Montréal (SPVM) publishes a work shift rather than an exact hour. On that basis most Montreal robberies fall in the evening shift, which accounts for 49% of them.
What day of the week do most robberies happen in Montreal?
Robberies in Montreal are spread fairly evenly across the week. Tuesday 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 robberies peak in Montreal?
Adding every year together, March is the busiest month for robberies in Montreal (733 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (586).
How common are robberies compared to other crime in Montreal?
Robbery makes up 6% of all crime recorded in Montreal over this period — 7,810 of 129,710 incidents.
What is the robbery rate in Montreal?
Montreal recorded 95.7 robberies per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on a population of 1,762,949. Rates are only calculated for complete years, since a partial year isn't comparable.
What period does this Montreal robbery data cover?
These figures cover 7,810 robberies recorded in Montreal between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Données Montréal (SPVM) 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 Données Montréal (SPVM). Counts reflect incidents the portal published and may differ from figures released elsewhere — missing is not the same as zero.