Criminal Offences

A Criminal Offence is a violation against the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal statute, provincial act, or municipal by-law. This dataset contains criminal offences from 2018 - 2024.

For privacy reasons, the locations of the occurrences have been geomasked to the closest intersection. The crime statistics published are accurate on the day that they were produced. Due to ongoing police investigations and internal data quality control efforts, this information is subject to change, including addition, deletion and reclassification of any and all data. 

Date created: February 11th, 2025 Date updated: April 10th, 2024 Update frequency: Annually    Accuracy: The Ottawa Police provides this information in good faith but provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability arising from any incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or its improper use.    Attributes:  1. Year  2. Reported Date 3. Reported Hour 4. Occurrence Date 5. Occurrence Hour 6. Weekday
  7. Offence Summary 8. Offence Category 9. Neighourhood 10. Sector 11. Division 12. Census Tract 13. Time of Day 14. Ward 15. Councillor 16. Intersection  

Author: Ottawa Police Service
Author email: [email protected]

Maintainer Organization: Planning, Performance and Analytics

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• 2018-2024
• Open Ottawa
• assault
• auto theft
• break and enter
• crime
• crimes against person
• crimes against property
• fraud
• mischief
• offences
• open data
• police
• theft

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (54%)
• Maturity Level 2 (69%)
• Maturity Level 3 (44%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (38%)

Field	Value
Last Updated	March 24, 2026, 20:41 (UTC)
Created	March 24, 2026, 20:41 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Criminal Offences
Description A description of the dataset.	A Criminal Offence is a violation against the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal statute, provincial act, or municipal by-law. This dataset contains criminal offences from 2018 - 2024. For privacy reasons, the locations of the occurrences have been geomasked to the closest intersection. The crime statistics published are accurate on the day that they were produced. Due to ongoing police investigations and internal data quality control efforts, this information is subject to change, including addition, deletion and reclassification of any and all data.  Date created: February 11th, 2025 Date updated: April 10th, 2024 Update frequency: Annually    Accuracy: The Ottawa Police provides this information in good faith but provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability arising from any incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or its improper use.    Attributes:  1. Year  2. Reported Date 3. Reported Hour 4. Occurrence Date 5. Occurrence Hour 6. Weekday   7. Offence Summary 8. Offence Category 9. Neighourhood 10. Sector 11. Division 12. Census Tract 13. Time of Day 14. Ward 15. Councillor 16. Intersection   Author: Ottawa Police Service Author email: [email protected] Maintainer Organization: Planning, Performance and Analytics
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	2018-2024 Open Ottawa assault auto theft break and enter crime crimes against person crimes against property fraud mischief offences open data police theft
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	0.11
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2025-11-27
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	public
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::criminal-offences
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	[email protected]
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	City of Ottawa
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	City of Ottawa
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2025-11-27

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	ff52fb17b9e0482e936f529abdeaf0bd
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::criminal-offences
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	City of Ottawa
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.	292924
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.	33
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.	9666492
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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