How many bike thefts are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 1,967 bike thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 70.4 per 100,000 residents.
Theft of a bicycle where the service separates it. Toronto residents also search for this category as stolen bikes and bicycle thefts — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 11,701 bike 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 bike thefts by year, 2021–2026
Toronto bike thefts peaked in 2023 with 2,716. 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 bike thefts happen in Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto bike thefts cluster in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 34% of them. The busiest individual hour is 6pm.
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 bike thefts happen in Toronto?
Bike thefts in Toronto are spread fairly evenly across the week. Tuesday 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 bike thefts peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. July is the busiest month for bike thefts in Toronto with 1,693 across the whole period, and January is the quietest with 301.
Where do bike thefts happen in Toronto?
Yonge-Bay Corridor records the most bike thefts of any area in Toronto, with 861 — 7% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto bike thefts: common questions
How many bike thefts are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 1,967 bike thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 70.4 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 11,701 bike 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 bike thefts going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto bike thefts peaked in 2023 with 2,716. The most recent figure is 1,269 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 bike thefts happen in Toronto?
Most Toronto bike thefts happen in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 34% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 6pm. 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 bike thefts happen in Toronto?
Yonge-Bay Corridor records the most bike thefts of any area in Toronto, with 861 (7% of the city total), followed by Downtown Yonge East (687) and St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands (526).
What day of the week do most bike thefts happen in Toronto?
Bike thefts in Toronto are spread fairly evenly across the week. Tuesday 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 bike thefts peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, July is the busiest month for bike thefts in Toronto (1,693 across the whole period) and January is the quietest (301).
How common are bike thefts compared to other crime in Toronto?
Bike theft makes up 4.9% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 11,701 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the bike theft rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 70.4 bike 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 bike theft data cover?
These figures cover 11,701 bike 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.