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Assault in St. Thomas

⚠ St. Thomas's open-data feed stopped updating on 2019-02-19 (7 years ago). The numbers below are a frozen snapshot, not current. More recent data may be available from the local police service.

In 2019 St. Thomas reported 11 assault incidents, representing 1.3 % of the city’s total of 817 crimes. This category ranks fifth among six crime types, with assault numbers falling from 21 in 2018, a 47.6 % decrease. The city’s map window for the most recent 60‑day period recorded 997 incidents overall, but the assault count for the full calendar year remains modest.

Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering St. Thomas.

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Assault incidents
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Share of St. Thomas incidents
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Category rank
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Assault in St. Thomas

This page presents the open‑data record of assault incidents reported in St. Thomas, Ontario, covering the full calendar year 2019 as defined in the city’s crime archive. The dataset includes all incidents with a known occurrence date, excluding any that lack a date, and provides context alongside the city’s overall incident count of 817.

For the selected period, eleven assaults were recorded, accounting for 1.3 % of the city’s total of 817 incidents. This places assault as the fifth most common offence out of six categories, behind theft (71 incidents) and other offences (695 incidents) but ahead of break‑and‑enter (13) and mischief (26). Compared with 2018, assault reports fell by 47.6 %, dropping from 21 incidents to 11 in 2019. These figures represent the complete 2019 count and are not derived from the 60‑day map window.

How Assault compares

Assault ranks fifth among St. Thomas’s six crime categories for 2019. With eleven incidents it accounts for just 1.3 % of the city’s 817 reported crimes, far fewer than the dominant “Other” category’s 695 incidents and the theft category’s 71 incidents. The next most common categories—mischief (26) and break‑and‑enter (13)—also surpass assault, while auto theft recorded only a single incident. This distribution shows that assault represents a relatively small share of overall reported offences in the city. Overall, violent offences are less prevalent than property‑related crimes in the 2019 dataset.

Key stats

What these numbers mean

Assault makes up a modest 1.3 % of St. Thomas’s reported crimes in 2019, placing it near the bottom of the city’s offence hierarchy. The category saw a sharp 47.6 % decline from the previous year, dropping to just eleven incidents. Compared with the dominant “Other” category (695 incidents) and theft (71), assault is considerably less common, indicating that violent offences were relatively rare in the city during that year.

About this dataset

Frequently asked questions about Assault in St. Thomas

How many assault incidents were reported in St. Thomas in 2019?

In 2019, St. Thomas recorded eleven reported assault incidents. These eleven cases constitute 1.3 % of the city’s overall 817 reported crimes for that year. The figure reflects the complete calendar‑year count and does not include any incidents lacking a specific occurrence date.

How does the assault count in 2019 compare to 2018?

The assault count fell sharply from 2018 to 2019. In 2018 the city logged twenty‑one assaults, which dropped to eleven in 2019 – a reduction of 47.6 %. This decrease accounts for nearly half of the previous year’s reported assaults, suggesting a notable decline in reported violent incidents for that period.

What proportion of total crimes does assault represent in 2019?

Assault offences accounted for 1.3 % of all reported crimes in St. Thomas during 2019. With 11 assault incidents against a city‑wide total of 817 incidents, the category contributed a small share of the overall crime landscape for that year recorded.

How does assault rank among other crime categories in St. Thomas?

Assault is the fifth most common crime category out of six in St. Thomas for 2019. It sits behind the ‘Other’ category (695 incidents) and theft (71 incidents), and is ahead of break‑and‑enter (13), mischief (26) and auto theft (1).

Other crime categories in St. Thomas

Sources

Data sourced from the Ontario open‑data portal (province code ON).

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