Shootings

A shooting refers to a criminal incident where the victim(s) or property was reported to have been shot or shot at with a firearm and refers to an incident where the investigation supported that credible physical evidence or witness testimony existed that one or more projectiles were discharged from a firearm. This dataset contains shooting occurrences 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: June 20, 2023 Date updated: February 11, 2025
  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. ID  2. Reported Date 3. Reported Hour 4. Reported Year 5. Occurrence Date 6. Occurrence Hour 7. Occurrence Year 8. Time of Day 9. Weekday 10. Day of Week 11. Neighourhood 12. Sector 13. Division 14. Ward Name 15. Councillor 16. Census Tract 17. Level of Injury  

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

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Last Updated March 24, 2026, 20:40 (UTC)
Created March 24, 2026, 20:40 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title
Title for the Dataset.
Shootings
Description
A description of the dataset.

A shooting refers to a criminal incident where the victim(s) or property was reported to have been shot or shot at with a firearm and refers to an incident where the investigation supported that credible physical evidence or witness testimony existed that one or more projectiles were discharged from a firearm. This dataset contains shooting occurrences 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: June 20, 2023 Date updated: February 11, 2025
  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. ID  2. Reported Date 3. Reported Hour 4. Reported Year 5. Occurrence Date 6. Occurrence Hour 7. Occurrence Year 8. Time of Day 9. Weekday 10. Day of Week 11. Neighourhood 12. Sector 13. Division 14. Ward Name 15. Councillor 16. Census Tract 17. Level of Injury  

Author: Ottawa Police Service
Author email: [email protected]
Tags / Keywords
Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
0.1
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.
https://data.ottawapolice.ca/pages/open-data-licence
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::shootings
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.
dc6496aae0e045d4a88d1cd648865e23
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::shootings
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
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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.
456
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
34
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
15504
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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