In 2025, Burlington recorded 3,830 total police-reported incidents according to Halton Regional Police Service data. The largest category was Other with 2,211 incidents, driven primarily by 2,133 Traffic & MVC offences along with 44 weapons offences and 34 drugs offences. Property offences also featured prominently in the city's open-data record, including 352 theft incidents, 318 theft from vehicle incidents, 304 auto theft incidents, and 288 break and enter incidents.
During the 2025 calendar year, Burlington, Ontario recorded a total of 3,830 police-reported incidents as published by the Halton Regional Police Service. This annual count accounts for 56.6 percent of the 6,762 total incidents documented in the city archive from 2025 to 2026.
This page provides a detailed breakdown of reported incident activity across Burlington throughout 2025. It examines specific incident classifications documented by law enforcement during the year, including the top recorded categories of Other, Theft, Theft from vehicle, Auto theft, Break and enter, and Mischief. Within the broad Other category, subcategories such as Traffic & MVC accounted for the majority of logged records.
Burlington's 2025 dataset ranks first in total volume among the two years in the city archive, which spans from 2025 to 2026. The 3,830 incidents recorded in 2025 compare to 2,932 incidents recorded in 2026. The 2025 category mix was led by 2,211 incidents in the Other classification. The calendar-year Other breakdown was dominated by Traffic & MVC, which totaled 2,133 incidents, representing 96.5 percent of Other incidents and 55.7 percent of all reported incidents in 2025. Property-related categories followed, including 352 Theft incidents, 318 Theft from vehicle incidents, 304 Auto theft incidents, 288 Break and enter incidents, and 240 Mischief incidents.
Burlington's 2025 incident profile was heavily concentrated in the Other category, which comprised 2,211 records, driven primarily by Traffic & MVC at 2,133 incidents. Vehicle and property offences also represented a significant share of activity, led by Theft at 352 incidents, Theft from vehicle at 318 incidents, and Auto theft at 304 incidents. Ranking first out of two recorded years, 2025 generated 3,830 of the 6,762 total incidents logged in the city archive, establishing the baseline volume for the tracked multi-year series.
In 2025, Burlington recorded a total of 3,830 police-reported incidents. This annual total accounts for 56.6 percent of the 6,762 total incidents documented across Burlington's entire multi-year dataset, which spans from 2025 through 2026. The 2025 total includes 2,211 incidents listed under the Other category and 352 Theft incidents.
The 2025 calendar year ranks first in total incident volume among the two years logged in Burlington's dataset. The 3,830 incidents recorded in 2025 compare to 2,932 incidents recorded in 2026. Because year-over-year percentage calculations require prior baseline data, 2025 serves as the initial benchmark year for the city's available records.
The largest category in Burlington during 2025 was Other with 2,211 incidents, where Traffic & MVC accounted for 2,133 of those records. Property offences comprised several other top categories, including Theft with 352 incidents, Theft from vehicle with 318 incidents, Auto theft with 304 incidents, and Break and enter with 288 incidents.
This dataset originates from official municipal open-data releases published by the Halton Regional Police Service for Burlington, Ontario. The records document 3,830 incidents across the municipality for the 2025 calendar year, contributing to the city's cumulative archive total of 6,762 incidents logged through 2026.
Data for Burlington is sourced from public incident records published by the Halton Regional Police Service in ON.