How many assaults are there in Ottawa?
Ottawa, ON recorded 4,327 assaults in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 425.3 per 100,000 residents.
Physical attacks on a person, from police-reported assault categories. Ottawa 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 20,622 assaults recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Ottawa Police Service 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 2021 rather than on January 1.
Ottawa assaults by year, 2021–2026
Ottawa assaults peaked in 2025 with 4,327. 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 assaults happen in Ottawa?
Across the whole period, Ottawa assaults cluster in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 34% of them. The busiest individual hour is 7pm.
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What day of the week do assaults happen in Ottawa?
Assaults in Ottawa are spread fairly evenly across the week. Friday 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 assaults peak in Ottawa?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. July is the busiest month for assaults in Ottawa with 1,928 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 1,451.
Where do assaults happen in Ottawa?
Centretown records the most assaults of any area in Ottawa, with 1,732 — 8% of the city total across the whole period.
Ottawa assaults: common questions
How many assaults are there in Ottawa?
Ottawa, ON recorded 4,327 assaults in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 425.3 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 20,622 assaults recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Ottawa Police Service Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are assaults going up or down in Ottawa?
Ottawa assaults peaked in 2025 with 4,327. The most recent figure is 3,319 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 assaults happen in Ottawa?
Most Ottawa assaults happen in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 34% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 7pm.
Where do most assaults happen in Ottawa?
Centretown records the most assaults of any area in Ottawa, with 1,732 (8% of the city total), followed by Byward Market (1,497) and Sandy Hill (1,245).
What day of the week do most assaults happen in Ottawa?
Assaults in Ottawa are spread fairly evenly across the week. Friday 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 assaults peak in Ottawa?
Adding every year together, July is the busiest month for assaults in Ottawa (1,928 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (1,451).
How common are assaults compared to other crime in Ottawa?
Assault makes up 12.3% of all crime recorded in Ottawa over this period — 20,622 of 167,564 incidents.
What is the assault rate in Ottawa?
Ottawa recorded 425.3 assaults per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on a population of 1,017,449. Rates are only calculated for complete years, since a partial year isn't comparable.
What period does this Ottawa assault data cover?
These figures cover 20,622 assaults recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Ottawa Police Service 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 Ottawa Police Service Community Safety Data Portal. Counts reflect incidents the portal published and may differ from figures released elsewhere — missing is not the same as zero.