Shootings & Weapons Offences in the GTA
555 shootings & weapons offences incidents were reported across Toronto, York Region and Durham Region in each police service's trailing 12 months of open data (Toronto: October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026 · York Region: October 29, 2025 – October 28, 2026 · Durham Region: October 27, 2025 – October 26, 2026). Every one is plotted on the live map. Locations are approximate (police offset each report to a nearby intersection, never an exact address).
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| Area | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Vaughan (York Regional Police) | 148 | 26.7% |
| Richmond Hill (York Regional Police) | 94 | 16.9% |
| Markham (York Regional Police) | 82 | 14.8% |
| Newmarket (York Regional Police) | 55 | 9.9% |
| Georgina (York Regional Police) | 47 | 8.5% |
| Toronto (Toronto Police Service) | 30 | 5.4% |
| Aurora (York Regional Police) | 23 | 4.1% |
| Oshawa (Durham Regional Police Service) | 19 | 3.4% |
| Whitchurch-Stouffville (York Regional Police) | 14 | 2.5% |
| East Gwillimbury (York Regional Police) | 13 | 2.3% |
| Pickering (Durham Regional Police Service) | 10 | 1.8% |
| King (York Regional Police) | 5 | 0.9% |
| Ajax (Durham Regional Police Service) | 5 | 0.9% |
| Whitby (Durham Regional Police Service) | 4 | 0.7% |
| Clarington (Durham Regional Police Service) | 3 | 0.5% |
| Scugog (Durham Regional Police Service) | 2 | 0.4% |
| Uxbridge (Durham Regional Police Service) | 1 | 0.2% |
Peel Region and Halton Region publish no incident-level open data feed, so they are not in this table — the map covers them through police news releases, local news and community reports instead.
What counts as shootings & weapons offences
The three services publish this differently, and this page does not hide that. Toronto's figure counts only its dedicated Shooting & Firearm Discharges layer (Toronto's main dataset has no general weapons category). York's figure combines “Weapons Violations” and “Firearms Violations”. Durham's counts “Shooting & Firearm Discharge” reports. Read each region's figure as what that service publishes, not as a like-for-like ranking.
How the map shows it
On the live map, shootings & weapons offences reports carry the purple Weapons marker and its own filter chip — the button above opens the map with every other type switched off, so you see only this type. Zoom into a city or drop a pin with “Near me” and the panel counts only what is inside your ring and your date range.