In 2016 Amherstburg recorded 564 crime incidents across the full calendar year. The dominant category was “Other”, accounting for 454 incidents, or 80.5 % of the total. Within Other, traffic‑related collisions made up the largest subcategory with 217 reports, followed by 156 calls for service. Theft was the next most common specific category with 78 incidents. Violent offences numbered just six for the year.
Year × type breakdown · Population 27,509 (2025)
The Amherstburg, Ontario, 2016 crime dataset captures all incidents recorded in the municipality’s official open‑data portal for the calendar year 2016. The total of 564 incidents reflects the complete archive for that year, not the 60‑day rolling map window.
These figures let residents, planners and researchers see the overall volume and composition of criminal activity reported by local police, while the interactive map on the site shows a recent snapshot of 389 incidents from the last 60 days for short‑term context.
Year‑over‑year change is not available for 2016 because the year‑series includes only this single year, so no comparable prior year count exists to calculate a change.
In 2016, the most common category was Other, accounting for 454 incidents (80.5% of the total). The next two categories were Theft with 78 incidents (13.8%) and Mischief with 19 incidents (3.4%). Within the dominant Other category, the leading subcategory was Traffic & MVC, comprising 217 incidents, which is 47.8% of Other and 38.5% of all incidents.
Amherstburg’s 2016 data is heavily weighted toward the "Other" group, driven mainly by traffic‑related incidents that alone represent over a third of all reported crimes. Violent offences are unusually low at just six incidents, and property‑theft types together make up less than 20% of the total. This composition suggests that most police activity that year centered on non‑violent, traffic‑related matters rather than traditional criminal offences.
The open‑data feed records 564 incidents for Amherstburg during the 2016 calendar year. These incidents span from 22 January 2016 through 20 April 2016, covering the complete year as defined in the archive. All 564 incidents are dated, with no undated records for that year.
The leading category in 2016 was “Other,” accounting for 454 incidents (about 80 % of all reports). This umbrella groups several specific types: Traffic & MVC (217 incidents, 38 % of total), Calls for service (156 incidents, 28 % of total), Bylaw & Provincial (41 incidents, 7 % of total), Other crime (24 incidents), Harassment (12 incidents), Drugs (3 incidents) and Weapons offences (1 incident).
A year‑over‑year change cannot be calculated for the 2016 data because the archive does not contain a comparable prior‑year total for Amherstburg. Consequently, the dataset reports the year‑over‑year change as not available for this period.
The Amherstburg dataset does not include neighbourhood identifiers, so a breakdown by specific neighbourhoods cannot be generated. Because the source data lacks that granularity, the page cannot display neighbourhood‑level incident counts for 2016.
The figures come from the official municipal open‑data portal for Ontario, which publishes the police‑recorded incidents for Amherstburg. This open‑data feed aggregates the counts used for the 2016 calendar‑year summary.
The open‑data totals cover the full 2016 calendar year, with the latest recorded incident dated 20��April 2016. While the interactive map displays a recent 60‑day window with 389 incidents, the headline figure of 564 reflects the complete year as defined in the archive.
Data is sourced from the official municipal open‑data portal for Ontario.
Drill into categories, years, and areas on the interactive map. Counts below use the same open-data archive as the city overview.