Break-ins in Canada and the US, from countries down to neighbourhoods
Police data on break-ins, free to explore. Start with your country to see every province, territory or state, then open a city to see its neighbourhoods.
Data last updated October 2026All figures 2025, compared with 2024Sources and method
Whole countries
Every province, territory and state, measured as incidents per 100,000 people so places of different sizes can be compared.
Canada
13 provinces and territories, plus 40 metro areasbreak and enters per 100,000 people in 2025, 10.6% lower than in 2024.
Homes and businesses combinedUnited States
48 states with reliable estimatesburglaries per 100,000 residents in 2025, 14.9% lower than in 2024.
Homes and businesses combinedDifferent definitions. Canada's figure is police-reported break and enters from Statistics Canada; the US figure is a burglary estimate from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, built from FBI data. Both cover 2025, but the two countries define and count these crimes differently, so compare places inside one country, not across the border.
The safest cities in Canada and the US, 2025
1,399 placesEvery city and police service covering 25,000+ people, ranked on the MkaeSense Safety Index for violent and property crime per resident.
Flagship rankingEvery Canadian police service, ranked
280 servicesBreak-ins, car thefts and thefts from cars per person, ten-year trends, and how many each police service solves.
NewBurglary and car theft in large US cities
Monthly to August 2026Ten-year trends, solve rates, the riskiest months, and which cities are rising or falling in 2026.
NewToronto car crime atlas
158 neighbourhoodsCar thefts, thefts from cars and hit-and-run collisions, mapped by neighbourhood, hour and place.
NewHow safe is your Toronto address?
Any addressType an address to see its neighbourhood's break-in rate, rank out of 158 and change from last year.
NewCrime in 3D
6 cities, Canada and the USNeighbourhoods, wards and cities rise with their break-ins or car thefts. Press play to watch the years change, and tap any place for its numbers.
NewEvery figure belongs to a dated release. See the data releases and changelog.
City neighbourhoods
Eleven cities and regions that publish detailed police data. Each page ranks every neighbourhood, district or precinct. Each place counts something slightly different, shown on the tag.
Toronto
158 neighbourhoodsResidential break-ins reported in 2025, 6.1% fewer than in 2024.
Homes only, split by house and apartmentMontreal
34 boroughs and citiesBreak-ins (homes and businesses) reported in 2025, 5.1% more than in 2024.
Homes and businesses combinedOttawa
110 neighbourhoodsBreak-ins (homes and businesses) reported in 2025, 9.8% fewer than in 2024.
Homes and businesses combinedYork Region
9 municipalitiesResidential break-ins reported in 2025, 0.9% fewer than in 2024.
Homes onlyEdmonton
333 neighbourhoodsResidential break-ins reported in 2025, 13.6% fewer than in 2024.
Homes onlyVancouver
24 neighbourhoodsBreak and enters (homes and businesses) reported in 2025, 3.4% fewer than in 2024.
Homes and businesses combinedChicago
77 community areasResidential burglaries reported in 2025, 8.6% fewer than in 2024.
Homes only, split by house and apartmentNew York
77 precinctsResidential burglaries reported in 2025, 2.7% more than in 2024.
Homes only, split by house and apartmentDallas
14 council districtsResidential burglaries reported in 2025, 1.0% more than in 2024.
Homes onlyAustin
10 council districtsResidential burglaries reported in 2025, 9.0% fewer than in 2024.
Homes onlyMontgomery County
28 communitiesResidential burglaries reported in 2025, 16.0% fewer than in 2024.
Homes onlyWhat the totals don't show
We dug further into the data. Only 1 in 6 Canadian break-ins leads to a charge, about half of home burglaries need no force, and Friday is the peak day in Toronto, Chicago and New York.
How to read this
Compare areas inside one place, not one place with another. Every police service counts, classifies and publishes crime a little differently, so a Chicago number and a Toronto number are not measuring quite the same thing.
Counts also depend on size. A big neighbourhood will have more incidents than a small one without being riskier per household, which is why the country pages use rates.
What to do with it
Use it to decide how much to worry, and where to start. See who is at the door, cover the back and sides, and make the home look lived in.
Sources and method
Every figure comes from a public police or government dataset. We compiled these in October 2026. Rankings, medians, shares and year-over-year changes are our own calculations from the published numbers.
| Place | Dataset and publisher | Years | What is counted | Measure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0177-01, incident-based crime statistics by detailed violation | 2024, 2025 | All police-reported break and enters, homes and businesses | Rate per 100,000 people |
| United States | Bureau of Justice Statistics, Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2025 (FBI NIBRS estimates, Table 3) | 2025, with the 2024 national rate | Burglaries, homes and businesses; weighted to account for agencies that did not report | Rate per 100,000 residents |
| Toronto | Toronto Police Service, Major Crime Indicators open data | 2024, 2025 | Break and enters at houses and apartments only; locations offset to the nearest intersection | Number reported |
| Chicago | City of Chicago Data Portal, Crimes 2001 to Present (Chicago Police Department) | 2024, 2025 | Burglaries at residential locations | Number reported |
| New York | NYC Open Data, NYPD Complaint Data Historic | 2024, 2025 | Burglary complaints at residences, by precinct | Number reported |
| Vancouver | Vancouver Police Department, year-end neighbourhood crime reports | 2024, 2025 | All break and enters, homes and businesses | Number reported |
| Montreal | Ville de Montréal open data, Actes criminels (SPVM) | 2024, 2025 | All break-ins, homes and businesses | Number reported |
| Ottawa | Ottawa Police Service, Criminal Offences open data | 2024, 2025 | All break and enters, homes and businesses | Number reported |
| York Region | York Regional Police, public crime data | 2024, 2025 | Residential break and enters, by municipality | Number reported |
| Edmonton | Edmonton Police Service, Community Safety Data Portal, placed in City of Edmonton neighbourhood boundaries by MkaeSense | 2024, 2025 (date reported) | Residential break and enters | Number reported |
| Dallas | City of Dallas Open Data, Police Incidents | 2024, 2025 | Burglary of habitation (homes), by council district | Number reported |
| Austin | City of Austin Open Data, Crime Reports | 2024, 2025 | Burglary of residence, by council district | Number reported |
| Montgomery County, MD | dataMontgomery, Crime (Montgomery County Police Department) | 2024, 2025 | Burglaries at residences, by postal community | Number reported |
Breaking into a place with intent to commit an offence, as counted by Canadian police. Statistics Canada does not split homes from businesses in the provincial table.
Unlawful entry of a structure to commit a crime, as defined in FBI reporting. Close to, but not the same as, the Canadian offence.
Rates are incidents per 100,000 people, so places of different sizes can be compared. City pages use counts because the cities do not publish neighbourhood populations with the data.
All figures cover crimes reported to police, not every crime that happens; in the US, about 41% of burglaries were reported to police in 2024 according to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Police services revise and reclassify records, so figures can change after publication. MkaeSense is not affiliated with any of these publishers, and this is general information, not a prediction for any home or street.
Not listed yet
If your city does not publish neighbourhood-level break-in data, the country pages still cover your province, territory or state. We add cities as their police data allows.