One other stretch of heat climate introduced one other busy month for break-ins in Montreal.
The town logged roughly 465 of them in June, a slight dip from May’s 487 however nonetheless the second-highest month-to-month whole to date this 12 months. That brings the operating tally to 2,685 as of June 30, in accordance with knowledge from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), tracked by means of the town’s Vue sur la sécurité publique mapping tool.
That works out to about 15.5 break-ins a day, placing June roughly in line with Might. It additionally matches a sample that is held in previous years, the place the hotter months are likely to drive incident counts up throughout the island.
The place the incidents are concentrated
The map seems quite a bit prefer it has all 12 months, with the centre and east of the island taking the brunt of the break-ins by a large margin.
A map of break-ins on the island in 2026. Vue sur la sécurité publique
Downtown continues to be the one greatest cluster, and Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is correct up there as one of many busiest zones within the east finish.
From there, the exercise spreads by means of the identical neighbourhoods which have proven up for months. Villeray, Rosemont, Montreal North and François-Perrault all see loads, and Verdun stays busy down on the southern fringe of the island.
Areas like Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Pointe-Claire, Île-Bizard and Beaconsfield are fairly quiet subsequent to the central and japanese clusters.
How 2026 is trending
With the 12 months now half over, Montreal sits at 2,685 break-ins, which places it on monitor to complete someplace round 5,400. That might nonetheless are available under latest years, although it is creeping up from the roughly 5,300 tempo projected a month in the past.
Here is how the annual totals have seemed going again a decade:
- 2015: 9,947
- 2016: 9,483
- 2017: 8,816
- 2018: 7,052
- 2019: 6,715
- 2020: 5,733
- 2021: 4,809
- 2022: 5,554
- 2023: 6,048
- 2024: 5,844
- 2025: 6,139
The second half of the 12 months usually accounts for a bigger surge of break-ins. In 2025, October alone accounted for 579 incidents, the busiest single month of that 12 months, so how the late summer time and fall shake out will go a good distance towards figuring out the place 2026 lastly lands.
If you wish to verify exercise by yourself road or neighbourhood, the SPVM’s interactive map is on the market by means of the City of Montreal’s website, the place you’ll be able to filter by crime kind and date vary.