How many thefts from vehicles are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 6,699 thefts from vehicles in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 239.7 per 100,000 residents.
Theft of property from inside a vehicle. Toronto residents also search for this category as car break-ins, vehicle break-ins and items stolen from cars — all of those refer to the same police-reported offences counted on this page.
These figures cover 39,912 thefts from vehicles 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 from vehicles by year, 2021–2026
Toronto thefts from vehicles peaked in 2022 with 9,281. 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 from vehicles happen in Toronto?
Across the whole period, Toronto thefts from vehicles cluster in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 33% 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 thefts from vehicles happen in Toronto?
Thefts from vehicles in Toronto are spread fairly evenly across the week. Friday is marginally the busiest at 16%, but an even split would be 14.3% — the gap isn't big enough to call a pattern.
What time of year do thefts from vehicles peak in Toronto?
Every year stacked together, so this is seasonality rather than a trend. November is the busiest month for thefts from vehicles in Toronto with 3,633 across the whole period, and February is the quietest with 2,777.
Where do thefts from vehicles happen in Toronto?
West Humber-Clairville records the most thefts from vehicles of any area in Toronto, with 1,541 — 4% of the city total across the whole period.
Toronto thefts from vehicles: common questions
How many thefts from vehicles are there in Toronto?
Toronto, ON recorded 6,699 thefts from vehicles in 2025, the most recent complete year — a rate of 239.7 per 100,000 residents. These figures cover 39,912 thefts from vehicles 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 from vehicles going up or down in Toronto?
Toronto thefts from vehicles peaked in 2022 with 9,281. The most recent figure is 5,194 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 from vehicles happen in Toronto?
Most Toronto thefts from vehicles happen in the evening (6pm–12am) window, which accounts for 33% of all of them. The busiest individual hour is 6pm. 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 from vehicles happen in Toronto?
West Humber-Clairville records the most thefts from vehicles of any area in Toronto, with 1,541 (4% of the city total), followed by Kensington-Chinatown (884) and York University Heights (800).
What day of the week do most thefts from vehicles happen in Toronto?
Thefts from vehicles in Toronto are spread fairly evenly across the week. Friday is marginally the busiest at 16% of the total, but an even split would be 14.3%, so the difference is not meaningful.
What time of year do thefts from vehicles peak in Toronto?
Adding every year together, November is the busiest month for thefts from vehicles in Toronto (3,633 across the whole period) and February is the quietest (2,777).
How common are thefts from vehicles compared to other crime in Toronto?
Theft from vehicle makes up 16.7% of all crime recorded in Toronto over this period — 39,912 of 239,282 incidents.
What is the theft from a vehicle rate in Toronto?
Toronto recorded 239.7 thefts from vehicles 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 from a vehicle data cover?
These figures cover 39,912 thefts from vehicles 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.