In 2025 Cornwall recorded 72 reported mischief incidents, accounting for 1.5 % of the city’s total of 4,758 crimes. Mischief ranked fifth among nine crime categories, behind Other (3,980 incidents) and Theft (466), and ahead of Assault (82) and Fraud (75). The data reflect a complete calendar year from the city’s open‑data archive and do not include unreported offences. officially recorded statistics.
Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering Cornwall.
The Cornwall, Ontario open‑data portal provides a detailed view of reported criminal activity for the calendar year 2025. This page focuses on the Mischief category, which captures incidents involving vandalism, property damage, or willful damage to public or private assets. During 2025, 72 Mischief incidents were recorded, representing 1.5 % of the city’s overall 4,758 reported incidents across all categories. These figures come from the complete 2025 archive and reflect the full calendar year, not the 60‑day rolling map window shown elsewhere. All counts correspond to incidents formally reported to police; unreported events are not reflected in the dataset. The data were generated on 9 August 2026. The dataset includes only incidents with a recorded occurrence date and presents raw counts without population‑based adjustments.
Within Cornwall’s crime profile, Mischief accounts for a modest share of overall incidents. Ranked fifth out of nine categories, it follows the dominant ‘Other’ category with 3,980 incidents and the Theft category with 466 incidents. Both Assault (82 incidents) and Fraud (75 incidents) exceed Mischief’s 72 incidents, while Break and Enter records the fewest at 46. This placement highlights that Mischief, at 1.5 % of total crime, is less prevalent than most of the city’s higher‑frequency offences. Consequently, law‑enforcement resources for Mischief are proportionally smaller compared to the larger categories.
The Mischief count of 72 incidents in 2025 represents a small fraction of Cornwall’s crime landscape, accounting for just 1.5 % of the 4,758 total reported offences. Positioned at rank 5 among nine categories, Mischief trails behind both the high‑volume ‘Other’ and Theft categories, and also sits below Assault and Fraud. With only a single year of data, no clear upward or downward trend can be identified, underscoring a relatively stable level of reported mischief activity for the year.
In 2025 Cornwall recorded 72 reported Mischief incidents. These 72 cases make up 1.5 % of the city’s total of 4,758 recorded offences across all crime types. The figure reflects only incidents that were formally reported to police and is drawn from the complete 2025 archive, not the 60‑day map window.
Mischief offences account for 1.5 % of Cornwall’s overall crime count for 2025. With 72 Mischief incidents out of 4,758 total recorded crimes, the category occupies a small portion of the city’s criminal activity profile. This proportion is calculated directly from the open��data counts without any population adjustments.
The ‘Other’ category dominates with 3,980 incidents, far exceeding Mischief’s 72 incidents. Theft follows with 466 reports, also much higher than Mischief. Even Assault (82) and Fraud (75) record slightly more incidents than Mischief. Break and Enter is the lowest at 46 incidents. Thus, Mischief sits near the lower end of the city’s crime distribution.
Data for the other crime categories in Cornwall can be accessed via the city’s open‑data portal. Separate pages exist for categories such as Theft, Assault, Fraud, and Break and Enter, each showing its own incident counts and rankings. You can also view a city overview or navigate to the 2025 year page for a broader snapshot of all crimes.
Source: Ontario Open Data portal (province code ON).