In Yellowknife's open-data feed, theft appears as the top category for 2026 year-to-date through July, with 137 reported incidents. That count represents 37.1% of the city's 369 total reported incidents across the five published categories. No neighbourhood-level breakdown is included for theft in the current available archive. These totals cover the selected year-to-date window, not the 60-day map view.
Data current through . Source: official police open-data portal covering Yellowknife.
This page covers Theft in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It uses the city's open-data crime archive for the selected period: the 2026 calendar year, year-to-date through July. In that window, the published incident count for theft is 137. That total equals 37.1% of Yellowknife's citywide figure of 369 reported incidents across all five categories in the same period.
The theft counts shown here are drawn from the full archive for the selected year-to-date window, not from the 60-day rolling map view. Theft is the largest of the five categories tracked in this dataset. The rest of this page places the 137 theft incidents alongside related offence types such as mischief, break and enter, auto theft, and theft from vehicle, and describes how theft ranks within the city's overall open-data mix.
Theft ranks first among Yellowknife's five tracked categories in the 2026 YTD through July window. Its count of 137 incidents exceeds mischief's 127, break and enter's 58, auto theft's 27, and theft from vehicle's 20. Mischief is the nearest category, while auto theft and theft from vehicle are the lowest counts in this set. Comparisons use the same year-to-date period, so the ordering reflects the same data window rather than full-year totals. The category count of 137 and the citywide total of 369 are both YTD figures, with theft's share stated as 37.1%.
Theft stands as Yellowknife's largest category in the 2026 YTD open-data window, with 137 incidents and a 37.1% share of the 369 citywide incidents. It leads the next category, mischief, which recorded 127 incidents, while break and enter, auto theft, and theft from vehicle are lower. The theft series contains only the 2026 value, so no year-over-year trend is visible from this page. The defining feature is the category's top rank and the size of its share within the city's five-category mix.
The open-data archive records 137 theft incidents for 2026 year-to-date through July. This number is the category count for Theft in Yellowknife and represents 37.1% of the citywide total of 369 incidents. The 60-day map tier is a separate, rolling view and is not the basis for this page's headline count.
Theft accounts for 37.1% of the 369 total incidents reported in Yellowknife across all categories in the 2026 YTD through July window. No percentage has been recalculated here; this is the figure provided in the underlying dataset. Theft is the top-ranked category among Yellowknife's five tracked categories.
Theft ranks first among five categories with 137 incidents. Mischief is the next highest at 127, followed by break and enter at 58, auto theft at 27, and theft from vehicle at 20. All of these counts come from the same 2026 YTD through July period, so the comparisons use a consistent timeframe.
The data provided for this page includes only one year for theft: 2026, with 137 incidents year-to-date through July. There is no earlier-year value in the series and no year-over-year figure, so an increase or decrease cannot be determined. The selected window is partial-year, not a complete calendar year, so no full-year trend should be inferred.
Yellowknife's figures come from the Northwest Territories (NT) open-data crime feed.