How many thefts are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 1,283 thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 45.9 per 100,000 residents.
General theft (over/under thresholds vary by service). Toronto residents also search for this category as stealing, shoplifting and larcenies — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 5,583 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 thefts by year, 2021–2026
Toronto thefts peaked in 2025 with 1,283. 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 thefts happen in Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto thefts cluster in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 40% of them. The busiest individual hour is 3pm.
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 thefts happen in Toronto?
Friday is the most common day for thefts in Toronto, at 16% of the total — 15% above what an even split across the week would give.
What time of year do thefts peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. July is the busiest month for thefts in Toronto with 597 across the whole period, and January is the quietest with 386.
Where do thefts happen in Toronto?
West Humber-Clairville records the most thefts of any area in Toronto, with 236 — 4% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto thefts: common questions
How many thefts are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 1,283 thefts in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 45.9 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 5,583 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 thefts going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto thefts peaked in 2025 with 1,283. The most recent figure is 806 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 thefts happen in Toronto?
Most Toronto thefts happen in the afternoon (12pm–6pm) window, which accounts for 40% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 3pm. 12am and 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 thefts happen in Toronto?
West Humber-Clairville records the most thefts of any area in Toronto, with 236 (4% of the city total), followed by Yonge-Bay Corridor (206) and Annex (198).
What day of the week do most thefts happen in Toronto?
Friday is the most common day for thefts in Toronto, accounting for 16% of them — 15% above an even split across the week.
What time of year do thefts peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, July is the busiest month for thefts in Toronto (597 across the whole period) and January is the quietest (386).
How common are thefts compared to other crime in Toronto?
Theft makes up 2.3% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 5,583 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the theft rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 45.9 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 theft data cover?
These figures cover 5,583 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.