Richmond recorded 1,520 total incidents in 2025, representing a 6.2% decrease compared to 1,620 incidents in 2024. Year-over-year totals reflect open-data police reporting rather than per-capita risk. Theft from vehicle was the leading category with 774 incidents, followed by break and enter at 423 recorded incidents. Auto theft and bike theft totaled 136 and 134 incidents, respectively. The 2025 total represents 7.6% of Richmond's 20,079 overall city archive incidents.
In 2025, Richmond, British Columbia recorded 1,520 total incidents in the municipal open-data archive. This figure reflects a 6.2% decrease from the 1,620 incidents reported in 2024. The 2025 total accounts for 7.6% of the 20,079 incidents documented across Richmond's complete 15-year historical dataset covering the period from 2012 to 2026.
This page examines the 2025 incident breakdown for Richmond, detailing specific categories including theft from vehicle, break and enter, auto theft, bike theft, and general theft. It outlines year-over-year shifts alongside multi-year dataset trends, offering a clear view of annual open-data figures logged across the city.
Richmond's 2025 incident total of 1,520 represents a 6.2% decline compared to the 1,620 incidents logged in 2024. Despite this year-over-year decrease, 2025 stands as the 5th highest year for recorded volume out of 15 total years tracked between 2012 and 2026, remaining well below the peak of 2,368 incidents logged in 2023. Readers should note that these annual totals reflect open-data reporting patterns rather than per-capita risk, as variations in public reporting practices and administrative data entry influence year-to-year figures across the municipal archive.
Property-related offences dominated Richmond's 2025 open-data record, driven primarily by 774 theft from vehicle incidents and 423 break and enter incidents. Auto theft (136) and bike theft (134) recorded nearly identical counts. With 1,520 incidents, 2025 ranks as the 5th highest annual total in Richmond's 15-year dataset spanning 2012 to 2026. While lower than the peak of 2,368 incidents in 2023 and the 1,620 logged in 2024, 2025 maintains an elevated volume relative to earlier years such as 2012, which recorded 1,064 incidents.
Richmond recorded a total of 1,520 incidents in 2025 according to published open-data records. This figure represents 7.6% of the 20,079 total incidents logged across Richmond's full 15-year archive from 2012 to 2026, placing 2025 as the 5th highest year for recorded incident volume.
Reported incidents in Richmond decreased in 2025, falling 6.2% from 1,620 incidents in 2024 down to 1,520 incidents in 2025. This downward movement follows a higher record of 2,368 incidents logged in 2023. Year totals reflect open-data reporting patterns rather than per-capita risk.
Theft from vehicle was the highest-volume category in Richmond during 2025, with 774 incidents recorded. Break and enter was the second most frequent category with 423 incidents, followed by auto theft with 136 incidents and bike theft with 134 incidents.
The 2025 dataset for Richmond is compiled from official municipal open-data releases for British Columbia (BC). The open-data repository includes 20,079 total records spanning 15 years from 2012 to 2026, offering standardized records of incidents across the city.
Data is sourced from official open data records published for Richmond, BC.