In 2021, Nanaimo recorded 204 reported incidents of Theft from vehicle out of 1,173 total incidents across all tracked categories, representing 17.4% of the city total. This category ranked third among six total categories, behind Mischief with 533 incidents and Theft with 294 incidents. Reported Theft from vehicle incidents dropped from 295 in 2020 to 204 in 2021, marking a decrease of 30.8% year over year.
Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering Nanaimo.
This page focuses on theft-from-vehicle incidents in Nanaimo, British Columbia, as recorded in the city's open-data crime archive. The archive shows 204 such incidents for the 2021 calendar year — a full-year total, not the 60-day map tier. Across all six categories in Nanaimo's open-data set, theft from vehicle made up 17.4% of the 1,173 citywide incidents.
Theft from vehicle ranked third among Nanaimo's six tracked categories in this period. The archive also includes dated theft-from-vehicle records for 2020, with 295 incidents that year versus 204 in 2021 — a year-over-year decline of 30.8%. Because the category is reported as a complete 2021 calendar year, these counts reflect the annual archive rather than a rolling 60-day window. The 2020 and 2021 figures make up the full annual series for this category.
Theft from vehicle sits third among Nanaimo's six crime categories in this open-data set, behind Mischief (533 incidents) and Theft (294). Its 204 incidents outnumber Break and enter (97), Auto theft (30), and Bike theft (15). That puts the category above the three smallest categories by a wide margin, while trailing the two largest. The 17.4% share of citywide incidents reflects that third-place position. These counts are the same full-year 2021 figures used for the citywide total on this page.
The standout feature in Nanaimo's 2021 archive is the year-over-year decline: theft-from-vehicle incidents fell from 295 in 2020 to 204 in 2021, down 30.8%. Even with that drop, the category held onto 17.4% of the city's 1,173 incidents and remained third among six categories, behind Mischief (533) and Theft (294) and ahead of Break and enter (97). With only two years in the published series, the decline is the clearest visible shift.
Nanaimo's open-data archive shows 204 theft-from-vehicle incidents for the complete 2021 calendar year. That figure is the full-year archive count, not the 60-day map window shown elsewhere on the site. Theft from vehicle represented 17.4% of all 1,173 incidents in the city's six-category open-data set for that period.
The category recorded 295 incidents in 2020 and 204 incidents in 2021, a year-over-year decrease of 30.8%. These two years are the only complete years in the published series for this category in Nanaimo, so the comparison is drawn directly from that pair of annual totals.
Theft from vehicle ranked third among Nanaimo's six crime categories in the 2021 open-data set. It trailed Mischief (533 incidents) and Theft (294), while outranking Break and enter (97), Auto theft (30), and Bike theft (15). Its 17.4% share of the citywide total reflects that mid-table position.
The 204 incidents cover the complete 2021 calendar year in Nanaimo's open-data archive. By contrast, the site's interactive map tier uses a rolling 60-day window, which shows 900 incidents. This page reports the fixed annual total for theft from vehicle, not the rolling map count.
Counts on this page are drawn from the City of Nanaimo's open-data crime archive in British Columbia (BC).