In 2025, Vancouver recorded 33,234 open-data crime incidents, representing 18.5% of the 179,819 total incidents in the city's multi-year archive. This total represents a 4.1% decrease compared to 34,667 reported incidents in 2024. Theft was the leading category with 11,495 incidents, followed by 6,497 assault incidents, 5,458 theft from vehicle incidents, 5,073 mischief incidents, and 2,173 break and enter incidents. The 1,189 incidents categorised as Other consisted entirely of Traffic & MVC.
In 2025, Vancouver, BC recorded 33,234 open-data incidents, representing a 4.1% decrease from the 34,667 incidents documented in 2024. These figures summarize full calendar-year incidents published in municipal open-data releases. It is important to note that annual totals reflect police reporting volume and administrative recording practices rather than direct per-capita risk.
This summary page details the category breakdown across Vancouver throughout 2025. It highlights leading categories including Theft with 11,495 incidents, Assault with 6,497 incidents, and Theft from vehicle with 5,458 incidents. The 2025 total of 33,234 incidents accounts for 18.5% of the 179,819 total incidents stored in the city's full-archive dataset across all 6 recorded years from 2021 to 2026.
Vancouver's 2025 total of 33,234 recorded incidents represents a decrease of 4.1% compared to the 34,667 incidents logged in 2024. This follows an earlier peak in 2023 when the city recorded 37,779 incidents, as well as 36,078 incidents documented in 2022 and 17,693 incidents in 2021. The 2025 volume marks the second consecutive annual drop in recorded open-data incidents following 2024's decline from 2023. Across the 6 recorded dataset years between 2021 and 2026, 2025 ranks 4th in total annual recorded incidents.
In 2025, Vancouver ranked 4th out of 6 dataset years in overall incident volume. Property-related offences remained prominent, with Theft leading all categories at 11,495 incidents and Theft from vehicle adding 5,458 incidents. Assault recorded 6,497 incidents, while Mischief stood at 5,073 and Break and enter at 2,173. The Other category consisted entirely of Traffic & MVC incidents, which totaled 1,189 records.
Vancouver recorded 33,234 open-data incidents in 2025. This volume represents 18.5% of the 179,819 cumulative incidents documented in Vancouver's full open-data archive across all 6 tracked years from 2021 through 2026. The 2025 annual total places it as the 4th highest year for recorded incident volume in the city's dataset.
Recorded incidents in Vancouver decreased by 4.1% in 2025, falling from 34,667 incidents in 2024 to 33,234 incidents in 2025. This continues a downward shift from the dataset peak of 37,779 incidents recorded in 2023, while remaining higher than the 17,693 incidents documented in 2021.
Theft was the leading category in Vancouver in 2025 with 11,495 recorded incidents. Assault followed with 6,497 incidents, Theft from vehicle with 5,458 incidents, Mischief with 5,073 incidents, and Break and enter with 2,173 incidents. Additionally, the Other category recorded 1,189 incidents, all classified as Traffic & MVC.
The data for Vancouver, BC comes from official municipal open-data releases published by local police authorities. The 2025 calendar-year record includes 33,234 documented incidents, contributing to the city's 6-year historical database spanning from 2021 to 2026.
Incident records are compiled directly from official municipal open-data releases in BC.