In 2026 year-to-date through July, Ottawa recorded 13,564 theft incidents, ranking first among eight tracked offence categories. Theft accounts for 62.5% of the city's 21,711 total reported open-data incidents. Across Ottawa neighbourhoods, Sandy Hill registered the largest count with 1,564 incidents, followed by Centretown with 1,280 incidents. For complete calendar years, reported theft totals were 15,391 in 2024 and 15,170 in 2025.
Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering Ottawa.
This page details open-data figures for reported Theft incidents in Ottawa, Ontario. For the 2026 year-to-date period through July, municipal police records show 13,564 reported Theft incidents across the city. These figures form part of Ottawa's official open dataset, which contains incident records spanning from October 14, 2001, through August 13, 2026.
Out of 21,711 total incidents recorded across all eight tracked categories in Ottawa during the 2026 year-to-date window, Theft accounts for 62.5% of the city total. Historical counts for this category include 15,391 incidents in 2024 and 15,170 incidents in 2025, compared to 12,669 in 2018, 14,078 in 2019, 8,752 in 2020, and 9,876 in 2021.
Theft ranks 1 out of 8 categories in Ottawa by volume for the 2026 year-to-date period through July. With 13,564 recorded incidents, Theft is more common than all other tracked category siblings in the city. By comparison, Assault recorded 3,980 incidents, followed by Mischief with 2,127 incidents, Break and enter with 1,078 incidents, Auto theft with 593 incidents, and Robbery with 300 incidents. Each sibling category shows lower volume than Theft, which remains the single largest category by incident volume in Ottawa's 2026 dataset.
Theft stands out as Ottawa's primary crime category by volume, holding rank 1 among 8 categories and representing 62.5% of all 21,711 reported incidents in 2026 year-to-date through July. Annual counts peaked at 15,391 incidents in 2024 before decreasing slightly by 1.4% to 15,170 in 2025. Sandy Hill leads individual neighbourhood counts with 1,564 incidents, followed by Centretown at 1,280 incidents. Theft volume substantially exceeds secondary categories such as Assault at 3,980 incidents and Mischief at 2,127 incidents.
For the 2026 year-to-date period through July, police recorded 13,564 Theft incidents in Ottawa. This category represents 62.5% of the 21,711 total incidents logged across all eight categories in the city during the same timeframe. Theft remains the highest-volume category recorded in Ottawa's open dataset for 2026.
For the most recent complete reporting years, Ottawa recorded 15,170 Theft incidents in 2025 compared to 15,391 incidents in 2024. This represents a 1.4% decrease in full-year reported Theft incidents between 2024 and 2025. Data for 2026 currently covers only year-to-date through July, with 13,564 incidents recorded.
Sandy Hill logged the highest count among Ottawa neighbourhoods with 1,564 Theft incidents in the 2026 year-to-date data. Centretown recorded the second highest volume at 1,280 incidents, followed by Overbrook - McArthur with 644 incidents, Westboro with 575 incidents, and Lowertown with 558 incidents.
Theft is ranked 1 out of 8 crime categories in Ottawa, making it the most frequent incident type in the city. Its 2026 year-to-date count of 13,564 incidents is significantly higher than Assault at 3,980 incidents, Mischief at 2,127 incidents, Break and enter at 1,078 incidents, Auto theft at 593 incidents, and Robbery at 300 incidents.
Data is sourced directly from official municipal open-data incident reports published for Ottawa, ON.