2016–2025 · 2 published indicators
Vancouver
crime trends.
Vancouver Police founded incidents for theft of a vehicle and break and enter.
Sources & methodologyBy category · 2025
Trends across 2 indicators
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Citywide · 24 local areas
Auto Theft count, 2025 · by local area
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 local area 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 | 1,478 | 7,150 |
| 2017 | 1,496 | 6,142 |
| 2018 | 1,144 | 5,554 |
| 2019 | 1,377 | 6,137 |
| 2020 | 854 | 5,726 |
| 2021 | 837 | 4,404 |
| 2023 | 737 | 3,760 |
| 2024 | 613 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 528 | 2,703 |
How the series is built
Rows come from the Vancouver Police Department all-years extract of founded incidents. Theft of a vehicle is auto theft. Commercial and residential break and enter are summed. 2026 is year-to-date and stays out of the comparison until that year is complete.
2022 is absent from the downloaded file, so that year is blank rather than zero. Assault, robbery, and other theft are not separated in this extract and are not plotted.
Population
Citywide rates use Statistics Canada population estimates for Vancouver. Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0155-01, Population estimates, July 1, by census subdivision, 2021 boundaries, July 1, 2016 to 2025 (released 2026-01-14). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Local-area rates are not shown because this package has no population for those boundaries.
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 Vancouver-wide
| Year | Auto Theft | Break and Enter |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 22.2 | 85.3 |
| 2017 | 22.3 | 69.3 |
| 2018 | 16.8 | 64.9 |
| 2019 | 19.8 | 68.5 |
| 2020 | 12.2 | 69.5 |
| 2021 | 12.0 | 51.3 |
| 2023 | 10.1 | 41.3 |
| 2024 | 8.2 | 30.8 |
| 2025 | 7.1 | 29.4 |
About this data
How to read these figures
- What does “crime” mean for Vancouver?
- Crime by local area means the indicators Vancouver Police Department publishes for Vancouver (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 Vancouver Police Department. Area boundaries come from City of Vancouver · local-area boundaries. Rates, when a denominator exists, use Statistics Canada · population estimates 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 local areas. There is no single cross-city crime index. Counting rules and source links are on the Vancouver about page.