How many shootings are there in Ottawa?
Ottawa, ON recorded 53 shootings in 2024, the most recent complete year — a rate of 5.2 per 100,000 residents.
Discharge of a firearm offences where mapped. Ottawa residents also search for this category as gun violence, firearm discharges and gun crime — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 244 shootings recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and October 2025 — 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 shootings by year, 2021–2025
Ottawa shootings peaked in 2023 with 74. The complete years here are 2022, 2023, 2024 — 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 shootings happen in Ottawa?
Across the whole period, Ottawa shootings cluster in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 41% of them. The busiest individual hour is 9pm.
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What day of the week do shootings happen in Ottawa?
Monday is the most common day for shootings in Ottawa, at 19% of the total — 32% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do shootings peak in Ottawa?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. June is the busiest month for shootings in Ottawa with 29 across the whole period, and November is the quietest with 13.
Where do shootings happen in Ottawa?
Byward Market records the most shootings of any area in Ottawa, with 20 — 8% of the city total across the whole period.
Ottawa shootings: common questions
How many shootings are there in Ottawa?
Ottawa, ON recorded 53 shootings in 2024, the most recent complete year — a rate of 5.2 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 244 shootings recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and October 2025 — every incident Ottawa Police Service Community Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are shootings going up or down in Ottawa?
Ottawa shootings peaked in 2023 with 74. The most recent figure is 38 in 2025. The complete years in this data are 2022, 2023, 2024, which are the ones directly comparable to each other.
What time of day do most shootings happen in Ottawa?
Most Ottawa shootings happen in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 41% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 9pm.
Where do most shootings happen in Ottawa?
Byward Market records the most shootings of any area in Ottawa, with 20 (8% of the city total), followed by Overbrook - McArthur (13) and Lowertown (11).
What day of the week do most shootings happen in Ottawa?
Monday is the most common day for shootings in Ottawa, accounting for 19% of them — 32% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do shootings peak in Ottawa?
Adding every year together, June is the busiest month for shootings in Ottawa (29 across the whole period) and November is the quietest (13).
How common are shootings compared to other crime in Ottawa?
Shooting makes up 0.1% of all crime recorded in Ottawa over this period — 244 of 167,564 incidents.
What is the shooting rate in Ottawa?
Ottawa recorded 5.2 shootings per 100,000 residents in 2024, 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 shooting data cover?
These figures cover 244 shootings recorded in Ottawa between September 2021 and October 2025 — 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.