Crime across Hamilton's wards, May 2026: 3,268 violent incidents so far this year
Police ward reports for May 2026 put the year's violent crime at 3,268 incidents across the city and property crime at 6,652, led by the downtown wards.
Hamilton Police Service’s ward reports for May 2026 put the year’s violent crime at 3,268 incidents across the city so far, with property crime at 6,652.
The heaviest violent-crime counts are in Ward 2 (660), Ward 3 (582), Ward 4 (347). These are raw counts, not rates: bigger and denser wards naturally show higher totals.
Every ward’s year-to-date and monthly figures, with a locator map, are on the Hamilton numbers page, updated as each month’s reports post. The figures are read directly from the police service’s published ward reports.