Waterloo Region, Ontario, recorded 7,147 total police open-data incidents during 2026, which represents the single calendar year available in this dataset. Property and financial offences made up the largest share of records, led by theft with 3,545 incidents and fraud with 1,229 incidents. Other top categories included assault with 900 incidents, auto theft with 744 incidents, break and enter with 600 incidents, and robbery with 129 incidents.
In 2026, Waterloo Region, Ontario documented a total of 7,147 police-reported incidents in the open-data repository. This total represents 100 percent of the overall city archive currently available for the region. This overview provides a comprehensive summary of those offences, outlining how different categories of reported incidents were distributed throughout the community during the calendar year.
Property-related offences formed the majority of recorded entries in 2026, led by Theft with 3,545 incidents and Fraud with 1,229 incidents. Violent offences such as Assault accounted for 900 recorded incidents, while Auto theft reached 744 incidents. Examining these figures offers factual documentation of police-reported activity across Waterloo Region without relying on estimates or projections.
The 2026 archive for Waterloo Region contains 7,147 total recorded incidents across six main categories listed in the dataset. Theft represented the highest single category count with 3,545 incidents, followed by Fraud at 1,229 incidents and Assault at 900 incidents. Other recorded incident categories included Auto theft with 744 incidents, Break and enter with 600 incidents, and Robbery with 129 incidents. Because 2026 is currently the sole calendar year present in this dataset, direct year-over-year comparisons with prior reporting periods cannot be established. The numbers reflect published open-data records for this single operational period.
In Waterloo Region's 2026 dataset, Theft stands out as the primary volume driver with 3,545 incidents, accounting for nearly half of the 7,147 total recorded offences. Fraud ranks second at 1,229 incidents, showing a heavy prominence of non-violent financial and property offences over violent categories like Assault, which recorded 900 incidents. Auto theft (744) and Break and enter (600) also feature prominently, whereas Robbery logged the fewest incidents at 129. As the only year in the current dataset, 2026 serves as the baseline record.
Waterloo Region documented a total of 7,147 police-reported incidents in 2026. This figure accounts for 100 percent of all recorded incidents within the city's available open-data dataset for that calendar year, spanning six primary categories published by local police services.
Year-over-year trend figures are not available for Waterloo Region because 2026 is currently the only calendar year included in this open-data release, with a recorded total of 7,147 incidents. Comparative multi-year trend analysis requires additional historical reporting periods.
Theft was the most frequently reported incident category in Waterloo Region during 2026, with 3,545 recorded incidents. Fraud was the second highest category with 1,229 incidents, while Assault ranked third with 900 incidents, followed by Auto theft with 744 incidents.
These statistics are derived directly from official municipal open-data portals in Ontario (ON), which published 7,147 total incidents logged for Waterloo Region in 2026. The published numbers represent raw, police-reported figures made available through public data portals for transparent community access.
Data is sourced from public open-data records published by local police services in Ontario (ON).