For the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul), London reported 6,815 total incidents while Toronto reported 21,838 total incidents. Both cities share a comparable open-data reporting period for this timeframe. Assault represents the category with the largest difference in raw counts between the two cities, with London recording 614 assault incidents compared to 11,492 assault incidents recorded in Toronto. Theft-related incidents totaled 4,450 in London and 5,626 in Toronto.
This report compares open-data police incident figures for London, Ontario, and Toronto, Ontario, using the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul). For the period spanning January 1, 2026, to July 31, 2026, London recorded 6,815 total open-data incidents in its municipal portal. Over that identical date window, Toronto documented 21,838 total open-data incidents, providing a direct same-period comparative baseline between both Ontario cities.
Category breakdowns reveal notable variations in incident distribution across both locations. London registered theft-related incidents as its top category with 4,450 recorded events, along with 898 mischief incidents and 614 assault records. In contrast, Toronto recorded assault as its leading category with 11,492 incidents, followed by 5,626 theft-related incidents and 3,217 break and enter events during the same seven-month period.
Direct comparison across the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul) shows distinct incident counts between London and Toronto. The largest raw difference between the two cities occurred in assault, where Toronto registered 11,492 incidents compared to 614 in London. Break and enter recorded the second largest gap, with Toronto logging 3,217 incidents while London documented 286 events. Theft-related incidents also differed between the municipalities, as Toronto recorded 5,626 incidents and London logged 4,450 incidents. Furthermore, Toronto recorded 1,057 robbery incidents compared to 52 in London. In contrast, London recorded 898 mischief incidents and 332 fraud incidents, whereas Toronto published 0 records for both mischief and fraud in this open-data extract.
In the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul), incident distributions differ markedly between London and Toronto. Toronto's total of 21,838 open-data incidents is heavily concentrated in assault, which accounts for 11,492 records. In contrast, London's 6,815 total incidents are primarily driven by theft-related incidents, totaling 4,450 records. Furthermore, category tracking variations are apparent: London publishes distinct counts for mischief (898) and fraud (332), whereas Toronto's dataset reflects 0 records for both categories.
During the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul), London recorded 6,815 total open-data incidents between January 1, 2026, and July 31, 2026. Over the exact same seven-month period, Toronto registered 21,838 total open-data incidents in its open-data portal. These figures reflect reported incidents published in each municipality's official open dataset for that period.
In London, theft-related incidents represented the highest count at 4,450 records, followed by mischief at 898 incidents. In Toronto, assault was the highest recorded category with 11,492 incidents, followed by theft-related incidents at 5,626 records and break and enter at 3,217 records during the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul).
Municipal police services update open-data repositories on independent schedules. In overall published windows, London's dataset spans April 1, 2026, to August 10, 2026, with 6,815 incidents, while Toronto's published dataset covers January 1, 2000, to August 13, 2026, with 21,838 total records. Comparing cities requires filtering both datasets to identical date ranges, such as 2026 YTD through July.
For break and enter, Toronto logged 3,217 incidents while London recorded 286 incidents during the same selected year (2026, YTD through Jul), representing a difference of 2,931 incidents. For robbery, Toronto recorded 1,057 incidents while London logged 52 incidents over the same timeframe, representing a category difference of 1,005 incidents.
Data for both London and Toronto is retrieved from municipal police open-data portals in Ontario.