How many murders are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 26 murders in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 0.9 per 100,000 residents.
Culpable homicide reports — rare and geo-masked by most services. Toronto residents also search for this category as homicides, killings, people killed and murder rate — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 163 murders 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 murders by year, 2021–2026
Toronto murders peaked in 2023 with 42. 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 day of the week do murders happen in Toronto?
Friday is the most common day for murders in Toronto, at 20% of the total — 42% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do murders peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. December is the busiest month for murders in Toronto with 18 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 8.
Where do murders happen in Toronto?
Moss Park records the most murders of any area in Toronto, with 10 — 6% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto murders: common questions
How many murders are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 26 murders in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 0.9 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 163 murders recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are murders going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto murders peaked in 2023 with 42. The most recent figure is 23 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.
Where do most murders happen in Toronto?
Moss Park records the most murders of any area in Toronto, with 10 (6% of the city total), followed by Glenfield-Jane Heights (5) and West Humber-Clairville (5).
What day of the week do most murders happen in Toronto?
Friday is the most common day for murders in Toronto, accounting for 20% of them — 42% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do murders peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, December is the busiest month for murders in Toronto (18 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (8).
How common are murders compared to other crime in Toronto?
Homicide makes up 0.1% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 163 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the murder rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 0.9 murders 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 murder data cover?
These figures cover 163 murders 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.