During the 2026 year-to-date period through July, Mississauga recorded 6,554 total open-data police incidents, while Toronto recorded 21,838 incidents over the same date range. The category exhibiting the largest raw-count difference between the two cities was assault, with Mississauga reporting 1,584 incidents compared to 11,492 in Toronto. Meanwhile, theft-related incidents totaled 1,470 in Mississauga and 5,626 in Toronto for this comparable period.
During the 2026 year-to-date period spanning January 1, 2026, through July 31, 2026, public open-data records show a total of 6,554 incidents in Mississauga, Ontario, compared to 21,838 total incidents in Toronto, Ontario. Both municipalities share an identical reporting window for this selected period, enabling a direct same-period comparison of reported incident counts across both jurisdictions.
Category breakdowns highlight notable variations between the two cities. Toronto registered higher totals in several primary classifications, including assault, theft-related incidents, and break and enter. In contrast, Mississauga documented higher counts in categories such as mischief, fraud, and homicide. The sections below analyze these category figures and detail the specific open-data incident totals recorded across both Ontario cities.
Between January 1, 2026, and July 31, 2026, Mississauga recorded 6,554 total incidents, while Toronto logged 21,838 total incidents. The largest absolute differences between the two municipalities occurred in assault, theft-related incidents, and break and enter. Toronto recorded 11,492 assault incidents compared to 1,584 in Mississauga. In theft-related incidents, Toronto logged 5,626 incidents, whereas Mississauga reported 1,470. Furthermore, Toronto registered 3,217 break and enter incidents compared to 603 in Mississauga, and 1,057 robbery incidents compared to 146 in Mississauga. Conversely, Mississauga recorded 1,329 mischief incidents and 1,149 fraud incidents during this same timeframe, whereas Toronto reported zero open-data incidents in both classifications.
Mississauga's 2026 year-to-date total of 6,554 incidents remains lower than Toronto's 21,838 incidents for the identical January to July window. Toronto's higher volume is driven predominantly by assault, theft-related incidents, and break and enter. Conversely, Mississauga recorded higher figures in mischief (1,329) and fraud (1,149), two categories where Toronto's open-data portal logged zero incidents, highlighting notable variations in how specific incident types are categorized in published municipal feeds.
For the period from January 1, 2026, to July 31, 2026, Mississauga recorded 6,554 total incidents while Toronto recorded 21,838 total incidents. Both cities share this same selected comparison window in the open-data feeds, enabling a direct side-by-side assessment of their reported incident totals across the first seven months of the year.
The largest raw differences occur in assault, theft-related incidents, and break and enter. Between January and July 2026, Toronto logged 11,492 assault incidents compared to 1,584 in Mississauga. Toronto also registered 5,626 theft-related incidents versus 1,470 in Mississauga, and 3,217 break and enter incidents compared to 603 in Mississauga.
Open-data feeds reflect police reporting structures. For instance, between January 1, 2026, and July 31, 2026, Mississauga reported 1,329 mischief incidents and 1,149 fraud incidents, whereas Toronto logged zero incidents in both categories. These zeros occur because individual municipal portals classify or publish specific offence types differently within their public data extracts.
Municipal police services publish open-data extracts on independent schedules and with varying historic coverage. While Mississauga and Toronto share an identical 2026 year-to-date window (6,554 incidents for Mississauga and 21,838 for Toronto), other municipal comparison pairs on CrimeMaps.ca may feature different date ranges depending on when each jurisdiction updates its public records.
Data compiled from official open-data portals published by police services in Ontario.