Toronto Crime Statistics and Trends for Property Managers and Businesses

Statistics Canada's 2025 police-reported crime data, released July 22, 2026, shows lower crime in the Toronto census metropolitan area than in 2024 for most offences that affect property owners. Shoplifting, high-value theft and fraud are the exceptions.

Source: Statistics Canada, Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0177-01, Toronto CMA [35535], reference year 2025, released July 22, 2026; accessed October 9, 2026. Rates rounded to one decimal. Index values: 2006 = 100.

How Toronto compares: In 2025 the Crime Severity Index was 54.99 for the Toronto CMA, 83.51 for the Vancouver CMA and 75.01 for Canada as a whole. (Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0026-01)

The Toronto Police Service publishes five Major Crime Indicators for the City of Toronto. From 2023 to 2025, auto theft, break and enter and robbery fell, while theft over $5,000 rose each year.

Source: Toronto Police Service Public Safety Data Portal, Major Crime Indicators open data, counts by reported year, data refreshed October 8, 2026; accessed October 9, 2026. TPS data is preliminary and excludes unfounded occurrences.

Compared with the same nine months of 2025, reported auto theft and theft over $5,000 are both up about 6% in Toronto in 2026, robbery is down, and break and enter is flat.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Major Crime Indicators open data, by reported date, January 1 to September 30 of each year; data refreshed October 8, 2026; accessed October 9, 2026. Year-to-date figures are preliminary and may change as reports are updated.

Commercial premises account for about a third of reported break and enters, robberies and thefts over $5,000 in Toronto, so businesses carry a large share of property-crime risk.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Major Crime Indicators open data, field PREMISES_TYPE, reported in 2025; accessed October 9, 2026. A handful of records with no premises type are counted under "Other". "Outside" includes streets, parking lots and other open areas as classified by TPS.

For residential buildings, the data points to three priorities: entry control, parking areas and incident records that boards can act on.

• Break-ins at apartments are a large share of the total. 1,656 of Toronto's 2025 break and enters (27.2%) were recorded at apartment premises. Front-desk access control, controlled deliveries and documented door and lock checks reduce the openings intruders use. See concierge security and condo and strata security.
• Vehicle theft is rising again in 2026. Auto thefts are up 6.1% year to date, and most occur outside, in driveways, lots and streets. Parkade and lot patrols, gate checks and visible presence at night help. See parking security and mobile patrol.
• Assaults most often happen in apartment settings. 31.7% of Toronto's 2025 assaults were recorded at apartment premises. Trained guards who de-escalate, call emergency services early and write accurate reports protect residents and staff.
• Boards need proof, not anecdotes. Ask your provider for time-stamped patrol records and incident reports. Regal's clients get both, with live guard GPS locations, in their own portal through Kovrra, the security ERP Regal uses.

For businesses, the 2025 and 2026 figures point to rising theft, especially shoplifting and high-value theft, while break-ins hold steady at a level where commercial sites take about a third of them.

• Retail: shoplifting ($5,000 or under) in the Toronto CMA rose 17.7% in 2025 (Statistics Canada). Uniformed guards at entrances, loss-prevention coverage at peak hours and clear reporting deter theft. See security guard services and industries we serve.
• Offices and commercial buildings: 2,130 break and enters (34.9%) were at commercial premises in 2025 (TPS). After-hours patrols, alarm response and access control close the gaps. See mobile patrol and electronic security.
• Warehouses, yards and construction sites: theft over $5,000 is up 6.1% in 2026 so far and rose every year from 2023 to 2025 (TPS). High-value equipment needs perimeter checks, gate control and video. See security guard services.
• Fraud and internal theft: fraud in the Toronto CMA was flat in 2025 (+1.1% rate), and it was the most frequent single offence in the Statistics Canada table (29,268 incidents). Investigations and a confidential reporting line help organizations catch it early. See private and corporate investigations and the Integrity Hotline.

Two official sources are used on this page, and they measure different things, so their numbers should not be compared with each other.

• Statistics Canada reports annual police-reported crime for the Toronto census metropolitan area, a region larger than the City of Toronto, using national Uniform Crime Reporting rules. Its Crime Severity Index weights each offence by seriousness (2006 = 100). The 2025 data was released July 22, 2026, and 2026 data is expected in summer 2027.
• The Toronto Police Service publishes Major Crime Indicators for the City of Toronto through its Public Safety Data Portal, counted here by the date a crime was reported. The data is preliminary, excludes unfounded reports, and is offset to the nearest intersection for privacy. TPS advises that it should not be compared with other crime data sources.
• Police-reported crime is not all crime. Incidents that are never reported to police are not in either dataset.
• Update schedule: we refresh this page every quarter (January, April, July and October) and after each annual Statistics Canada release. The date at the top shows the last refresh.

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