How many shootings are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 263 shootings in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 9.4 per 100,000 residents.
Discharge of a firearm offences where mapped. Toronto residents also search for this category as gun violence, firearm discharges and gun crime — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 1,730 shootings 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 shootings by year, 2021–2026
Toronto shootings peaked in 2024 with 462. 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 shootings happen in Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto shootings cluster in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 42% of them. The busiest individual hour is 12am.
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What day of the week do shootings happen in Toronto?
Sunday is the most common day for shootings in Toronto, at 17% of the total — 16% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do shootings peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. May is the busiest month for shootings in Toronto with 173 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 118.
Where do shootings happen in Toronto?
Glenfield-Jane Heights records the most shootings of any area in Toronto, with 58 — 3% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto shootings: common questions
How many shootings are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 263 shootings in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 9.4 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 1,730 shootings recorded in Toronto between September 2021 and September 2026 — every incident Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal has published in that window.
Are shootings going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto shootings peaked in 2024 with 462. The most recent figure is 175 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 shootings happen in Toronto?
Most Toronto shootings happen in the overnight (12am–6am) window, which accounts for 42% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 12am.
Where do most shootings happen in Toronto?
Glenfield-Jane Heights records the most shootings of any area in Toronto, with 58 (3% of the city total), followed by Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown (56) and Black Creek (49).
What day of the week do most shootings happen in Toronto?
Sunday is the most common day for shootings in Toronto, accounting for 17% of them — 16% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do shootings peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, May is the busiest month for shootings in Toronto (173 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (118).
How common are shootings compared to other crime in Toronto?
Shooting makes up 0.7% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 1,730 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the shooting rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 9.4 shootings 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 shooting data cover?
These figures cover 1,730 shootings 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.