In 2026 year to date through July, Vancouver recorded 10 reported homicide incidents out of 20,238 total city incidents across all categories. Homicide represents 0% of total reported city incidents during this period. Per incident counts for homicide are typically small and volatile year to year. Homicide ranks ninth among nine categories, making it less common than theft, assault, mischief, and break and enter.
Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering Vancouver.
This data report provides an overview of open-data records for Homicide in Vancouver, BC, covering the 2026 year-to-date period through July. During this timeframe, the city recorded 10 Homicide offences out of 20,238 total reported offences across all categories. This figure positions Homicide as accounting for 0 percent of Vancouver's total reported incident volume during the current reporting window.
When analyzing Homicide data in urban centres, per-incident counts are typically small and volatile year-to-year, meaning minor numeric shifts can represent large percentage changes. The 10 recorded incidents in 2026 through July follow 32 incidents logged in 2025 and 27 incidents recorded in 2024. This narrative summarizes multi-year trends from 2021 through 2026, comparing Homicide counts alongside other published crime categories and examining distribution across individual Vancouver neighbourhoods.
Among the 9 categories tracked in Vancouver's open-data portal, Homicide ranks 9th in total incident volume for 2026 through July. With 10 recorded incidents, Homicide represents the lowest count among all evaluated categories. By comparison, higher-volume property and violent categories recorded substantially larger numbers during the same period: Theft recorded 7,348 incidents, Assault logged 3,778 incidents, Theft from vehicle reached 3,282 incidents, Mischief stood at 3,206 incidents, and Break and enter recorded 1,161 incidents. Homicide counts remain far below these major offence types across the city.
Homicide represents the smallest category by volume in Vancouver, ranking 9th out of 9 total categories with 10 incidents recorded in 2026 YTD through July. Across complete reporting years, annual figures moved from 18 in 2021 up to 25 in 2022, 31 in 2023, 27 in 2024, and 32 in 2025, reflecting an 18.5 percent year-over-year change between 2024 and 2025. At the neighbourhood level, Strathcona recorded 5 incidents and Central Business District recorded 3 incidents in the 2026 data feed.
In 2026 YTD through July, Vancouver recorded 10 Homicide incidents in its published open-data feed. This represents 0 percent of the 20,238 total incidents recorded across all 9 tracked categories in the city during the same period. Per-incident counts for homicide are typically small and volatile from year to year.
Between 2021 and 2025, Vancouver recorded annual Homicide counts of 18 in 2021, 25 in 2022, 31 in 2023, 27 in 2024, and 32 in 2025. Between the complete years of 2024 and 2025, reported incidents increased by 18.5 percent from 27 to 32 offences. In 2026 YTD through July, 10 incidents have been recorded.
In 2026 YTD through July, Strathcona recorded 5 Homicide incidents, the highest count among listed areas. Central Business District recorded 3 incidents, Kensington-Cedar Cottage recorded 2 incidents, and West End logged 1 incident. These 4 neighbourhoods represent the locations with reported counts in the 2026 open-data dataset.
Homicide ranks 9th among 9 tracked categories in Vancouver for 2026 YTD through July, making it the least frequent reported category. Its count of 10 incidents is substantially lower than property and violent offences such as Theft with 7,348 incidents, Assault with 3,778 incidents, Theft from vehicle with 3,282 incidents, Mischief with 3,206 incidents, and Break and enter with 1,161 incidents.
Crime figures are compiled from public open-data records published for Vancouver, BC.