Property Crime Downtown: What the Five-Year Numbers Actually Show
Perception and data don't always agree. We pulled five years of reported property-crime figures for the two downtown cores.
Ask residents about the north and south cores and you'll hear strong opinions about property crime. We wanted to see what the reported numbers say over a five-year window.
The short version: break-and-enter reports are down modestly from their pandemic-era peak, while theft from vehicles remains stubbornly common and highly seasonal, spiking in summer. Mischief and vandalism reports track closely with foot traffic rather than time of day.
The caveats
Reported crime is not the same as crime. Changes in how often people bother to file a report - especially for low-value thefts - can move the numbers as much as any change in actual offending. Read these figures as a trend line, not a verdict.
We've requested the underlying open-data tables and will publish a fuller breakdown, including a neighbourhood map, in a follow-up analysis.
