How many car thefts are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 6,260 car thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 224 per 100,000 residents.
Theft of a motor vehicle. Toronto residents also search for this category as stolen cars, vehicle thefts, auto thefts and cars stolen — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 40,547 car thefts 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 car thefts by year, 2021–2026
Toronto car thefts peaked in 2023 with 10,759. 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 car thefts happen in Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto car thefts cluster in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 44% of them. The busiest individual hour is 10pm.
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 car thefts happen in Toronto?
Thursday is the most common day for car thefts in Toronto, at 16% of the total — 10% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do car thefts peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. November is the busiest month for car thefts in Toronto with 3,674 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 3,020.
Where do car thefts happen in Toronto?
West Humber-Clairville records the most car thefts of any area in Toronto, with 2,912 — 7% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto car thefts: common questions
How many car thefts are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 6,260 car thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 224 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 40,547 car thefts recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are car thefts going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto car thefts peaked in 2023 with 10,759. The most recent figure is 4,664 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 car thefts happen in Toronto?
Most Toronto car thefts happen in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 44% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 10pm. 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 car thefts happen in Toronto?
West Humber-Clairville records the most car thefts of any area in Toronto, with 2,912 (7% of the city total), followed by York University Heights (962) and Etobicoke City Centre (959).
What day of the week do most car thefts happen in Toronto?
Thursday is the most common day for car thefts in Toronto, accounting for 16% of them — 10% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do car thefts peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, November is the busiest month for car thefts in Toronto (3,674 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (3,020).
How common are car thefts compared to other crime in Toronto?
Auto theft makes up 16.9% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 40,547 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the car theft rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 224 car thefts 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 car theft data cover?
These figures cover 40,547 car thefts 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.