In 2016 Belleville recorded 175 theft incidents, accounting for 8.7% of the city’s overall 2,008 reported crimes. Theft was the second‑most common offence after the “Other” category, which comprised 1,637 incidents. The data cover the full calendar year and include both dated and undated records, with the earliest incident logged on January 28 and the latest on April 27. No neighbourhood‑level breakdown is provided for this category.
Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering Belleville.
This page presents open-data incident counts for the Theft offence in Belleville, Ontario, for the calendar year 2016. The dataset includes 175 reported theft incidents, representing 8.7 % of all recorded crimes in the city that year. These numbers are the result of police reports entered into the municipal open-data system and capture every theft incident recorded during that period. Belleville recorded a total of 2,008 incidents across all crime categories in 2016.
The figures are drawn from the city’s complete archive and reflect the full 2016 calendar year, not the 60‑day map window that appears on the interactive map. Because the data cover the entire year, they provide a stable view of theft activity for Belleville and can be compared with other offence categories in the same period.
In 2016 theft was the second‑most reported offence in Belleville, trailing only the broad “Other” category, which accounted for 1,637 incidents. By contrast, assault recorded 77 incidents, mischief 68, break and enter 40, and robbery just 7. The theft count of 175 represents 8.7 % of the city’s total crime count of 2,008, underscoring its significance relative to the less‑frequent offences. Belleville tracks seven offence categories in its open‑data feed, and theft ranks second out of these seven. This placement highlights theft as a prominent but not dominant crime type for the year.
Theft emerges as Belleville’s second‑most common offence in 2016, contributing 8.7 % of the city’s overall crime count. Its 175 incidents sit well above assault, mischief and break‑and‑enter, yet far below the broad ‘Other’ category which dominates the dataset. Because the open‑data series for theft contains only the 2016 figure, no year‑over‑year trend can be identified, but the position of theft among seven tracked categories underscores its relevance for municipal safety monitoring.
In the 2016 calendar year Belleville recorded 175 theft incidents. These reports come from the municipal police open‑data feed and make up the full count for the theft category for that year. This figure represents roughly one‑tenth of all crime reports for the city, which totaled 2,008 incidents in 2016.
Theft accounts for 8.7 % of all recorded crimes in Belleville for 2016. With 175 theft incidents out of a city‑wide total of 2,008 offences, the proportion underscores theft’s role as a notable but not dominant category among the seven tracked crime types.
The most frequently recorded offence in Belleville for 2016 is the broad “Other” category, which comprises 1,637 incidents. This single category accounts for the majority of the city’s crime total, dwarfing the theft count of 175 and highlighting its prominence in the dataset.
Among the less common offences in 2016, robbery was the least frequent with just 7 reported incidents. Break and enter followed with 40 incidents, while mischief and assault recorded 68 and 77 incidents respectively, all well below the theft total of 175.
Data sourced from the Ontario open-data portal (ON).