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Motor Vehicle Theft in Canada by Province
Statistics Canada’s count of police-reported motor vehicle theft, 1998 to 2025. It covers every kind of motor vehicle, from cars and motorcycles to farm tractors. It is not a count of truck or trailer theft.
- Canada’s 2025 rate of 200.8 incidents per 100,000 people is the lowest in a table that starts in 1998, and 30.1% below 2023.
- Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta had the highest provincial rates. Ontario had the most incidents, 30,354, at a rate below the national one.
- Quebec and Ontario made up 79.0% of the national drop since 2023, while Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick remain well above 2019.
- This covers all motor vehicles. It is not a count of truck or trailer theft, and it says nothing about whether any tracker prevents theft or recovers a vehicle.
Statistics Canada Table 35-10-0177-01, released July 22, 2026, covering 1998 to 2025. Retrieved November 1, 2026. Download the data as CSV.
What this means if you run trucks
The national picture has moved fast. Police recorded 115,155 motor vehicle thefts in 2023 and 83,652 in 2025, a drop of 27.4%. A headline from 2023 no longer describes the country.
The biggest counts are not where the highest rates are. Ontario recorded 30,354 incidents, 36.3% of the national total, yet its rate of 186.7 per 100,000 people sits below Canada’s 200.8. Saskatchewan’s rate is 2.1 times the national one. Prince Edward Island’s is 0.4 times.
Police clear few of these cases. For every nine incidents recorded in 2025, police reported about one cleared, and a cleared case is not the same as a vehicle returned.
What this table cannot give you is the odds for one truck. It lumps together cars, pickups, motorcycles, farm tractors and snowmobiles, and it divides by residents, not vehicles. Treat a province’s figure as a rough guide to where vehicle theft is common, not a risk score for your yard or your lanes.
Provinces and territories in 2025
| Province or territory | Rate 2025 | Incidents 2025 | Share of Canada | Rate 2019 | Rate 2023 | Rate change 2023 to 2025 | Cleared share 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saskatchewan | 423.6 | 5,367 | 6.4% | 455.5 | 465.1 | −8.9% | 15.3% |
| Northwest Territories | 411.3 | 189 | 0.2% | 400.5 | 605.2 | −32.0% | 17.5% |
| Manitoba | 352.2 | 5,317 | 6.4% | 404.8 | 425.2 | −17.2% | 13.9% |
| Nunavut | 320.3 | 134 | 0.2% | 278.1 | 312.8 | +2.4% | 35.1% |
| Alberta | 316.6 | 15,921 | 19.0% | 540.9 | 413.4 | −23.4% | 9.4% |
| Yukon | 277.6 | 134 | 0.2% | 342.3 | 361.1 | −23.1% | 34.3% |
| New Brunswick | 253.0 | 2,200 | 2.6% | 189.5 | 276.7 | −8.6% | 9.5% |
| Ontario | 186.7 | 30,354 | 36.3% | 164.3 | 285.1 | −34.5% | 10.2% |
| Quebec | 153.3 | 13,886 | 16.6% | 140.5 | 278.4 | −44.9% | 13.6% |
| British Columbia | 137.7 | 7,844 | 9.4% | 261.3 | 177.3 | −22.3% | 8.3% |
| Nova Scotia | 134.0 | 1,465 | 1.8% | 95.4 | 126.3 | +6.1% | 12.9% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 119.5 | 657 | 0.8% | 82.8 | 120.5 | −0.8% | 14.9% |
| Prince Edward Island | 86.0 | 157 | 0.2% | 93.1 | 116.3 | −26.1% | 21.7% |
| Canada | 200.8 | 83,652 | 100.0% | 231.4 | 287.5 | −30.1% | 11.2% |
Sorted by 2025 rate. Rate means incidents per 100,000 residents. Cleared share is incidents cleared in 2025 divided by incidents recorded in 2025; see the cautions below. The Canada row includes 27 incidents handled by Canadian Forces Military Police, which are not assigned to a province, so the rows do not add up to Canada exactly.
The national trend since 1998
The rate peaked at 550.6 in 2003, then fell 62.5% to 206.7 by 2013. It stayed between 205.6 and 232.9 through 2021. Then it jumped to 287.5 in 2023, the highest since 2009, and fell 30.1% in two years. At 200.8, the 2025 rate is the lowest in the table and 63.5% below the 2003 peak. The table records the swing but does not explain it.
Where the drop happened, and where it did not
Incidents fell by 31,503 across Canada between 2023 and 2025. Quebec (10,674 fewer) and Ontario (14,216 fewer) made up 79.0% of that. Quebec’s rate fell 44.9% and Ontario’s 34.5%. Even so, both are still above 2019, by 9.1% and 13.6%.
Alberta and British Columbia reached their lowest rates in the table in 2025, at 316.6 and 137.7. They are down 41.5% and 47.3% from 2019. Alberta’s rate is still 1.6 times the national one.
Atlantic Canada is the exception. Nova Scotia is the only province where the rate rose between 2023 and 2025, up 6.1%. Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are the three provinces furthest above their 2019 rates, by 44.3%, 40.4% and 33.5%. Their counts are far smaller than Ontario’s, and of the three only New Brunswick has a rate above the national one, but a carrier based there should not assume the national decline has reached it.
Saskatchewan went the wrong way in 2025. Its rate rose 10.3%, the largest provincial increase that year, and it passed Manitoba to have the highest rate of any province. Manitoba and Alberta follow at 352.2 and 316.6.
Read the territories with care. Yukon recorded 134 incidents, Nunavut 134 and the Northwest Territories 189, so a few dozen incidents move their rates a long way. The Northwest Territories went from 605.2 in 2023 to 411.3 in 2025.
How often police clear these cases
Police reported 9,346 incidents cleared in 2025, 6,201 by charge and 3,145 otherwise. Set against the year’s 83,652 incidents, that is 11.2%. An incident is cleared when police identify at least one suspect and either lay or recommend a charge or close the file another way, for example because they cannot proceed for reasons beyond their control or choose not to charge.
That share reached 14.4% in 2012, fell to 9.3% in 2023 as incidents climbed, and has partly recovered. Among provinces in 2025 it ran from 8.3% in British Columbia to 21.7% in Prince Edward Island. How cases close differs too: 34.0% of cleared incidents ended in a charge in Manitoba, against 83.7% in Quebec.
Three cautions apply. Statistics Canada warns that a year’s cleared count can include incidents reported in earlier years, so this share is not a true solve rate. It also advises care when comparing clearance with years before 2019, after a change in police reporting standards. And cleared means a suspect was identified. It does not mean the vehicle came back. This table says nothing about recovery.
What the table counts
- Police-recorded incidents. Statistics Canada’s Juristat article on the subject describes motor vehicle theft as taking, or trying to take, a land-based motorized vehicle without the owner’s authorization, so attempts count.
- Every kind of motor vehicle. The survey’s reporting manual covers cars, trucks and buses, vans, motor homes, motorcycles, snowmobiles, farm tractors, forklifts, cranes, bulldozers and all-terrain vehicles. A vehicle does not need to be registered to count. Statistics Canada’s comparison with the United States confirms farm and construction equipment are included.
- One incident per stolen vehicle, in most cases. Three vehicles taken from a parking lot are three incidents. A car dealership is the exception: several vehicles taken together can be one incident.
- Highway tractors, but not as their own line. The manual lists a “tractor trailer or heavy-duty truck” type, “with or without its attached trailer”, but this table publishes only the total. Its notes say more detail is available on request.
What the table leaves out
- A trailer on its own, as we read it. The manual defines a motor vehicle as one “propelled or driven other than by muscular power”. A trailer does not propel itself, and the manual names “unattached truck trailers” as an example of a commercial place, not a vehicle. We found no Statistics Canada statement on how a stolen detached trailer is coded, and the manual is the February 2008 edition, the newest we could find, so this is our reading and not theirs.
- Cargo. The table counts incidents, not what was on board or what it was worth.
- Unreported thefts and unfounded reports. Police-reported data cannot include what nobody reported. It also excludes reports police classed as unfounded, meaning they concluded no violation took place or was attempted. There were 7,721 of those in 2025.
- Incidents with a more serious lead offence. Each incident is counted under its most serious violation, so a vehicle stolen during a more serious crime can be recorded under that crime instead.
- Violent vehicle theft since June 2024. A Criminal Code change created a separate violation for motor vehicle theft involving violence or threats, and Statistics Canada says it sits outside this total. The table does not publish it separately, so we cannot say how many incidents that leaves out of 2024 and 2025.
- Recovery, vehicle type and value. The table does not say whether a vehicle was recovered, what kind it was, what it was worth, or whether it was a commercial vehicle.
For a sense of scale on trucks specifically, you have to leave police data. Équité Association, a not-for-profit that supports Canadian property and casualty insurers, reported on June 26, 2024 that thefts of trucks, trailers and cargo loads from 2019 to 2023 totalled an estimated value of over $531 million, with over $239 million in stolen cargo and equipment unrecovered. That is an industry estimate of dollars, not a police count, so it cannot be set against the incident figures on this page.
Notes on the data
- Revisions. Statistics Canada accepts revisions for one year after release, then freezes the data, so the 2025 figures can still change once with next year’s release.
- Rates use residents. Population figures leave out people passing through, such as commuters and seasonal workers, which can lift the rate in places with many of them.
- 1998 territories. The 1998 Northwest Territories figure includes Nunavut, which has its own figures from 1999.
- Local practice. Statistics Canada notes that differences in police policies, procedures and enforcement can affect how crime trends compare.
- Our calculations. Incidents, rates and cleared counts are Statistics Canada’s. Shares, multiples and changes over more than one year are ours, worked out from the published figures, so a percentage here can differ slightly from one Statistics Canada publishes.
What this does not say about trackers
Nothing in this table measures whether a GPS tracker, a lock, a fenced yard or anything else prevents theft or helps get a vehicle back. TruckerPro GPS is a private hardware evaluation. It does not offer theft prevention or theft recovery and makes no claim about either. Our asset tracking guide covers what a tracker can and cannot do.
Sources and download
Download the CSV: every year from 1998 to 2025 for Canada, the 10 provinces, the 3 territories and Canadian Forces Military Police, 420 rows. Retrieved November 1, 2026 from Statistics Canada’s Web Data Service. The two percentage columns just before the source notice are our calculations.
- Statistics Canada. Table 35-10-0177-01: Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Canadian Forces Military Police. Released July 22, 2026. DOI: 10.25318/3510017701-eng.
- Statistics Canada. Web Data Service, the API used to fetch this table.
- Statistics Canada. The Daily: Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2025. July 22, 2026.
- Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. Uniform Crime Reporting Incident-Based Survey Reporting Manual. February 2008.
- Dauvergne, M. Motor vehicle theft in Canada, 2007. Juristat, Statistics Canada, December 2008.
- Statistics Canada. Trends in police-reported crime in Canada and the United States: A comparative analysis. 2025.
- Équité Association. Inaugural Cargo and Heavy Equipment Theft Trend Report release. June 26, 2024.
- Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0177-01, 1998 to 2025, released 2026-07-22. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Questions
Does this data show truck or trailer theft?
No. It covers all motor vehicles together. This table does not publish trucks separately, and as we read the survey’s definition, a trailer unhooked from its tractor is probably not counted at all, because a trailer is not itself a motor vehicle.
Which province had the highest motor vehicle theft rate in 2025?
Saskatchewan, at 423.6 incidents per 100,000 people, followed by Manitoba at 352.2 and Alberta at 316.6. The Canadian rate was 200.8. These rates cover all motor vehicles.
How many motor vehicle thefts did police report in Canada in 2025?
83,652 incidents, down from 99,110 in 2024, according to Statistics Canada. Attempts are included, and thefts that were never reported are not.
Does a GPS tracker stop vehicle theft?
This data cannot say. It does not measure any prevention or recovery method. TruckerPro GPS is a private hardware evaluation and makes no theft-prevention or theft-recovery claim.