2016–2025 · 3 published indicators
Montreal
crime trends.
SPVM public incident rows for auto theft, break and enter, and robbery on the Island of Montreal.
Sources & methodologyBy category · 2025
Trends across 3 indicators
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Citywide · 34 neighbourhood stations
Auto Theft count, 2025 · by station
Local boundaries shaded by one category at a time, in the active unit, for the selected year. Hover for a quick read; click to open the full station view.
Count by year
counts · 2016–2025 · baseline = all categoriesView chart data
Full years only; incomplete YTD totals are excluded. Not available means a value is missing, not zero.
| Year | Auto Theft | All categories (baseline) |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4,352 | 16,123 |
| 2017 | 4,732 | 15,780 |
| 2018 | 4,237 | 13,258 |
| 2019 | 4,170 | 12,942 |
| 2020 | 4,706 | 12,162 |
| 2021 | 6,440 | 13,007 |
| 2022 | 9,377 | 17,368 |
| 2023 | 11,528 | 20,061 |
| 2024 | 8,661 | 16,887 |
| 2025 | 6,579 | 15,301 |
How the series is built
Each row is one selected incident from the SPVM Actes criminels extract. Auto theft is vol de véhicule à moteur, break and enter is introduction, and robbery is vols qualifiés. 2026 is year-to-date and stays out of the ten-year comparison.
Theft from a vehicle, mischief, and offences causing death stay out. Assault is not published in this file. The city says the extract is not its official statistical series.
Population
Citywide rates use Statistics Canada table 17-10-0152-01 for the census division of Montréal. Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0152-01, Population estimates, July 1, by census division, 2021 boundaries, July 1, 2016 to 2025 (released 2026-01-14). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. That geography is the Island of Montreal, not the City of Montreal alone. Station rates are not shown because this package has no population for those boundaries. Six stations have counts and no polygon in the published boundary file, so they appear in the list and not on the map.
0.0% of these indicator reports could not be placed in a local area and stay in the city totals only.
Reading the data
Three numbers that need context
Data summary for Montreal-wide
| Year | Auto Theft | Break and Enter | Robbery |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 22.2 | 50.0 | 10.1 |
| 2017 | 23.9 | 46.4 | 9.3 |
| 2018 | 20.9 | 36.7 | 7.9 |
| 2019 | 20.3 | 33.9 | 8.7 |
| 2020 | 22.8 | 29.4 | 6.8 |
| 2021 | 31.9 | 25.4 | 7.2 |
| 2022 | 46.1 | 30.9 | 8.3 |
| 2023 | 55.0 | 31.2 | 9.5 |
| 2024 | 40.0 | 29.2 | 8.7 |
| 2025 | 30.3 | 30.6 | 9.5 |
About this data
How to read these figures
- What does “crime” mean for Montreal?
- Crime by neighbourhood station means the indicators Service de police de la Ville de Montréal publishes for Montreal (2016–2025). They are reported incident or offence counts, not arrests, charges, or a safety score. The same heading in another city is not the same offence.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Police figures come from Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. Area boundaries come from Ville de Montréal · neighbourhood police stations. Rates, when a denominator exists, use Statistics Canada · census division population and are shown per 10,000 residents. A missing year, indicator, or boundary stays missing.
- How often is this updated?
- The site is updated periodically, with no fixed public schedule and no live feed. Comparable charts use full years. A year-to-date control, when the page has one, labels the partial year separately.
- What does this not show?
- Drug offences and overdose deaths are separate series, not part of these neighbourhood stations. There is no single cross-city crime index. Counting rules and source links are on the Montreal about page.