How many assaults are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 20,110 assaults in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 719.7 per 100,000 residents.
Physical attacks on a person, from police-reported assault categories. Toronto 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 97,522 assaults recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public 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.
Toronto assaults by year, 2021–2026
Toronto assaults peaked in 2024 with 20,844. 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 Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto assaults cluster in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 32% of them. The busiest individual hour is 12pm.
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 assaults happen in Toronto?
Assaults in Toronto are spread fairly evenly across the week. Saturday 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 Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. June is the busiest month for assaults in Toronto with 9,077 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 6,910.
Where do assaults happen in Toronto?
Mimico-Queensway records the most assaults of any area in Toronto, with 3,132 — 3% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto assaults: common questions
How many assaults are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 20,110 assaults in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 719.7 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 97,522 assaults recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are assaults going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto assaults peaked in 2024 with 20,844. The most recent figure is 14,182 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 Toronto?
Most Toronto assaults happen in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 32% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 12pm. 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.
Where do most assaults happen in Toronto?
Mimico-Queensway records the most assaults of any area in Toronto, with 3,132 (3% of the city total), followed by Moss Park (2,533) and Downtown Yonge East (2,470).
What day of the week do most assaults happen in Toronto?
Assaults in Toronto are spread fairly evenly across the week. Saturday 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 Toronto?
Adding every year together, June is the busiest month for assaults in Toronto (9,077 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (6,910).
How common are assaults compared to other crime in Toronto?
Assault makes up 40.8% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 97,522 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the assault rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 719.7 assaults per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on a population of 2,794,356. Rates are only calculated for complete years, since a partial year isn't comparable.
What period does this Toronto assault data cover?
These figures cover 97,522 assaults recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public 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 Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal. Counts reflect incidents the portal published and may differ from figures released elsewhere — missing is not the same as zero.