Vancouver recorded 34,667 open-data incidents in 2024, representing an 8.2% decrease from 37,779 incidents in 2023. Theft was the leading category with 11,126 incidents, followed by 7,461 assault incidents and 5,779 theft from vehicle incidents. Mischief accounted for 5,319 incidents, while break and enter recorded 2,300. The 1,156 incidents logged under Other were entirely Traffic & MVC. Note that annual totals reflect police reporting changes rather than per-capita risk.
In 2024, Vancouver recorded 34,667 open-data police incidents, representing an 8.2% decrease from the 37,779 incidents documented in 2023. These annual counts reflect total reported police records in the city rather than per-capita risk or total actual crime.
This page provides a detailed breakdown of Vancouver's 2024 crime-data archive across major incident categories. The dataset captures key incident classifications including Theft (11,126 records), Assault (7,461 records), Theft from vehicle (5,779 records), Mischief (5,319 records), Break and enter (2,300 records), and Other offences (1,156 records). The entire 2024 total accounts for 19.3% of the 179,819 records logged in the city's multi-year open-data archive spanning 2021 through 2026.
Vancouver's 2024 incident total of 34,667 represents a decline of 8.2% compared to the 37,779 incidents recorded in 2023. This decrease followed two consecutive years of higher volume, placing 2024 as the third highest year for reported incidents out of the 6 years in the city's open-data collection (2021 to 2026). While 2024 totals dropped below 2023 (37,779) and 2022 (36,078), they remained above the 17,693 incidents logged in 2021. Year-over-year shifts reflect changes in police reporting and open-data publishing rather than per-capita risk.
Theft led Vancouver's 2024 open-data mix with 11,126 incidents, followed by Assault at 7,461 and Theft from vehicle at 5,779. The 2024 total of 34,667 ranks third overall among the 6 recorded years in Vancouver's dataset, sitting below 2023 (37,779) and 2022 (36,078). Notably, the 1,156 incidents categorized as Other consisted entirely of Traffic & MVC offences, accounting for 100% of that parent classification in 2024.
Vancouver recorded 34,667 open-data police incidents in 2024. This single-year total accounts for 19.3% of the 179,819 incidents logged in the city's full open-data archive across all recorded years from 2021 through 2026. The 2024 count ranks third highest among the 6 total years present in the dataset.
Reported incidents in Vancouver decreased by 8.2% in 2024 compared to 2023. The total count dropped from 37,779 incidents in 2023 to 34,667 incidents in 2024. This annual change reflects open-data police records published for each calendar year rather than a direct per-capita risk measurement.
Theft was the most common incident category in Vancouver during 2024, with 11,126 reported incidents. Assault was the second most frequent category with 7,461 incidents, followed by Theft from vehicle with 5,779 incidents and Mischief with 5,319 incidents. Break and enter registered 2,300 incidents during the year.
The 2024 data comes from official municipal police open-data publications released in British Columbia (BC). The dataset includes 34,667 logged incidents for 2024 and forms part of a 179,819-incident multi-year archive spanning 2021 to 2026, generated from official police open-data exports.
Data is sourced from official municipal police open-data portals in British Columbia (BC).