How many robberies are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 1,955 robberies in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 70 per 100,000 residents.
Theft involving force or the threat of force. Toronto residents also search for this category as muggings, armed robberies and holdups — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 10,869 robberies 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 robberies by year, 2021–2026
Toronto robberies peaked in 2024 with 2,465. 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 robberies happen in Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto robberies cluster in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 37% of them. The busiest individual hour is 8pm.
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 robberies happen in Toronto?
Friday is the most common day for robberies in Toronto, at 16% of the total — 10% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do robberies peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. August is the busiest month for robberies in Toronto with 982 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 817.
Where do robberies happen in Toronto?
Downtown Yonge East records the most robberies of any area in Toronto, with 311 — 3% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto robberies: common questions
How many robberies are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 1,955 robberies in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 70 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 10,869 robberies recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are robberies going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto robberies peaked in 2024 with 2,465. The most recent figure is 1,372 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 robberies happen in Toronto?
Most Toronto robberies happen in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 37% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 8pm. 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 robberies happen in Toronto?
Downtown Yonge East records the most robberies of any area in Toronto, with 311 (3% of the city total), followed by Moss Park (294) and Yonge-Bay Corridor (247).
What day of the week do most robberies happen in Toronto?
Friday is the most common day for robberies in Toronto, accounting for 16% of them — 10% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do robberies peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, August is the busiest month for robberies in Toronto (982 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (817).
How common are robberies compared to other crime in Toronto?
Robbery makes up 4.5% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 10,869 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the robbery rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 70 robberies 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 robbery data cover?
These figures cover 10,869 robberies 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.