In 2021, Nanaimo recorded 1,173 reported incidents in its municipal open-data archive, representing an 11.4% decrease from 1,324 incidents in 2020. Mischief was the leading category with 533 incidents, followed by theft with 294 incidents and theft from vehicle with 204. Break and enter accounted for 97 records. Year-over-year changes in annual counts reflect police reporting and administrative tracking rather than per-capita risk.
During 2021, Nanaimo, British Columbia recorded 1,173 total incidents in the city's open-data record, representing an 11.4% decrease from the 1,324 incidents recorded in 2020. These yearly figures capture total open-data reporting volume rather than per-capita risk.
This summary outlines the distribution of reported incidents across Nanaimo for the 2021 calendar year. The data covers specific categories such as mischief (533 incidents), theft (294 incidents), and theft from vehicle (204 incidents). Across the complete on-disk city archive of 2,497 total incidents between 2020 and 2021, the 2021 calendar year accounted for 47% of all recorded incidents in the archive.
Nanaimo's total incident count in 2021 reached 1,173 incidents, down from 1,324 incidents logged during 2020. This shift represents an 11.4% decrease year-over-year between the two recorded years in the archive. The 2021 count ranked second out of two total years tracked in the city's dataset, behind 2020. Together, the two years form a city archive total of 2,497 incidents from 2020 to 2021. In 2021, mischief recorded the highest volume among individual categories with 533 incidents, followed by theft with 294 incidents and theft from vehicle with 204 incidents.
In 2021, Nanaimo's open data was led by mischief with 533 incidents and theft with 294 incidents, while theft from vehicle added 204 incidents. Smaller property categories included break and enter with 97 incidents, auto theft with 30, and bike theft with 15. Generating 1,173 incidents, 2021 ranked second out of the two archived years (2020 to 2021), marking a 11.4% decline from the 1,324 incidents recorded in 2020 and representing 47% of the overall city total.
In 2021, Nanaimo recorded a total of 1,173 incidents in the open-data dataset. This total accounts for 47% of Nanaimo's cumulative full-archive city total of 2,497 incidents logged across all available years in the dataset, which covers 2020 through 2021.
Reported incidents in Nanaimo decreased in 2021 compared to the previous year. The 2021 figure of 1,173 incidents was an 11.4% drop from the 1,324 incidents logged in 2020. Year-over-year changes reflect reporting volume rather than per-capita risk.
Mischief was the leading incident category in Nanaimo during 2021, accounting for 533 recorded incidents. Theft followed with 294 incidents, theft from vehicle had 204 incidents, break and enter recorded 97 incidents, and auto theft recorded 30 incidents.
The 2021 data for Nanaimo comes from official open-data releases in British Columbia. The dataset tracks incident records for Nanaimo across the years 2020 to 2021, totaling 2,497 recorded incidents across the entire archive, with 1,173 occurring in 2021.
Data for Nanaimo is sourced from municipal open-data releases in BC.