During the 2026 year-to-date reporting period from January 1, 2026 through July 31, 2026, open-data records show 6,079 total incidents in Brampton and 21,838 total incidents in Toronto. Both municipalities share a comparable selected period. Assault represents the category with the largest raw-count difference between the two cities, accounting for 1,692 incidents in Brampton compared to 11,492 incidents in Toronto during this timeframe.
During the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul) spanning January 1, 2026, to July 31, 2026, open-data records show 6,079 total reported incidents in Brampton and 21,838 total reported incidents in Toronto. Both Ontario municipalities provide open-data feeds covering this shared 2026 timeframe, enabling a direct side-by-side evaluation of municipal incident figures across identical calendar months.
The published open-data feeds highlight distinct distribution patterns across individual incident categories for each city from January through July 2026. While Toronto recorded higher overall volumes led by assault and theft-related incidents, Brampton logged notable figures in categories such as mischief, fraud, and assault. Analyzing these reported incident counts provides a detailed overview of how open-data categories compare across these two neighbouring Ontario communities.
Between January 1, 2026, and July 31, 2026, Toronto's selected-period total of 21,838 reported incidents compares to Brampton's total of 6,079 reported incidents. The largest raw category difference occurred in assault, where Toronto recorded 11,492 incidents compared to 1,692 in Brampton. Theft-related incidents presented another major count gap, with Toronto recording 5,626 incidents while Brampton registered 1,159. For break and enter, Toronto logged 3,217 incidents compared to 400 in Brampton. Meanwhile, Brampton recorded 1,365 mischief incidents and 912 fraud incidents during this timeframe, whereas Toronto's open-data comparison feed listed 0 incidents in both classifications due to differences in reporting structures between the two municipal police services.
During the January 1 to July 31, 2026 period, Toronto recorded a substantially higher total count than Brampton (21,838 versus 6,079), with assault (11,492 vs 1,692), theft-related incidents (5,626 vs 1,159), and break and enter (3,217 vs 400) accounting for the vast majority of the overall gap. Conversely, Brampton recorded higher open-data counts in mischief (1,365) and fraud (912), categories where Toronto's open-data feed reported 0 incidents due to differing open-data publishing schemes between the police services.
For the period from January 1, 2026, to July 31, 2026, Brampton logged 6,079 open-data police incidents while Toronto logged 21,838 incidents. These totals represent the reported incident counts published by Peel Regional Police and Toronto Police Service respectively for this shared year-to-date date window.
Municipalities and police services publish open-data feeds on varying update schedules and historical timelines. While this Brampton and Toronto comparison matches on identical dates from January 1, 2026, to July 31, 2026 (citing 6,079 and 21,838 incidents), other city pairs on CrimeMaps.ca may display non-overlapping date ranges. In such cases, figures represent side-by-side snapshots rather than direct same-period comparisons.
Assault represents the largest count difference between the two cities during the January–July 2026 period, with Toronto logging 11,492 incidents compared to Brampton's 1,692 incidents. Theft-related incidents also showed a notable gap, with Toronto recording 5,626 incidents against Brampton's 1,159. Additionally, break and enter accounted for 3,217 incidents in Toronto compared to 400 in Brampton.
Open-data feeds reflect the specific reporting categories chosen by each local police service. Between January and July 2026, Brampton reported 1,365 mischief incidents and 912 fraud incidents. Toronto's open-data comparison feed lists 0 for these categories because Toronto Police Service publishes mischief and fraud under different public datasets or omits them from their primary open map feed.
This comparison synthesizes police incident data retrieved from the official municipal open-data portals of Brampton and Toronto in Ontario.