How many break-ins are there in Ottawa?
Ottawa, ON recorded 2,335 break-ins in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 229.5 per 100,000 residents.
Unlawful entry into a premises with intent to commit an offence. Ottawa residents also search for this category as burglaries, home invasions, breaking and entering and B&Es — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 12,481 break-ins 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 break-ins by year, 2021–2026
Ottawa break-ins peaked in 2022 with 2,820. 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 break-ins happen in Ottawa?
Across the whole period, Ottawa break-ins cluster in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 28% of them. The busiest individual hour is 2am.
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 break-ins happen in Ottawa?
Friday is the most common day for break-ins in Ottawa, at 16% of the total — 13% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do break-ins peak in Ottawa?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. July is the busiest month for break-ins in Ottawa with 1,231 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 852.
Where do break-ins happen in Ottawa?
Centretown records the most break-ins of any area in Ottawa, with 1,688 — 14% of the city total across the whole period.
Ottawa break-ins: common questions
How many break-ins are there in Ottawa?
Ottawa, ON recorded 2,335 break-ins in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 229.5 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 12,481 break-ins recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Ottawa Police Service Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are break-ins going up or down in Ottawa?
Ottawa break-ins peaked in 2022 with 2,820. The most recent figure is 1,330 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 break-ins happen in Ottawa?
Most Ottawa break-ins happen in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 28% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 2am. 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.
Where do most break-ins happen in Ottawa?
Centretown records the most break-ins of any area in Ottawa, with 1,688 (14% of the city total), followed by Sandy Hill (766) and Overbrook - McArthur (529).
What day of the week do most break-ins happen in Ottawa?
Friday is the most common day for break-ins in Ottawa, accounting for 16% of them — 13% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do break-ins peak in Ottawa?
Adding every year together, July is the busiest month for break-ins in Ottawa (1,231 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (852).
How common are break-ins compared to other crime in Ottawa?
Break & enter makes up 7.4% of all crime recorded in Ottawa over this period — 12,481 of 167,564 incidents.
What is the break-in rate in Ottawa?
Ottawa recorded 229.5 break-ins 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 break-in data cover?
These figures cover 12,481 break-ins 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.