Monday, August 17, 2026

Hamilton in numbers

The figures below are computed from the City of Hamilton's own published records and refreshed as the city updates them. Every section links the exact dataset it is derived from. Raw counts, not estimates; where the record is silent, the page says so.

Deaths on Hamilton roads

267killed, 2008–2025
94of them were pedestrians
15were cyclists

Cyclist deaths run one or two a year: 1 in 2022, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2025. The city publishes this dataset annually, so 2026 figures do not exist here yet; until they do, the police releases on the wire are the only same-year signal.

By year: deaths held flat while injuries halved

YearKilledInjured
2008141,677
2009141,667
2010201,811
2011171,835
2012201,795
2013141,740
2014161,830
2015141,931
2016111,936
2017161,682
2018111,561
2019141,469
2020131,141
2021161,162
2022161,150
202314977
202414962
202513922

What police recorded the driver doing, fatal collisions only

The second most common entry is driving properly: in 52 fatal collisions the record shows no driver error at all.

Lost control58
Driving properly52
Failed to yield right-of-way34
Other25
Exceeding speed limit21
Disobeyed traffic control20
Improper turn11
Speed too fast for condition11

Locations with more than one fatal collision on record

Source: City of Hamilton, Traffic Collisions dataset · deaths and injuries are collision counts by classification; property-damage-only collisions are excluded because the city's reporting method for them changed in 2023.

Crime by ward, May 2026

From the police service's own monthly ward reports, read directly from the published PDFs. Raw counts, not per-person rates, so bigger and denser communities naturally show higher totals.

AncasterWARD 12Violent crime, YTD95Property crime, YTD397
DundasWARD 13Violent crime, YTD76Property crime, YTD210
Stoney CreekWARDS 9 & 10Violent crime, YTD207Property crime, YTD620
Flamborough & WaterdownWARD 15Violent crime, YTD55Property crime, YTD190
GlanbrookWARD 11Violent crime, YTD65Property crime, YTD199
The nine urban wards, individually
WardViolent YTDProperty YTDViolent this monthProperty this month
Ward 113748226105
Ward 2660794142177
Ward 3582789132163
Ward 434763687131
Ward 526769044128
Ward 61863784595
Ward 72875146596
Ward 816648935119
Ward 141382643651

Source: Hamilton Police Service ward reports · a dash means the report's layout defeated exact extraction for that figure, and nothing was guessed.

Building and development

Development applications filed with the city: rezonings, subdivisions, site plans and consultations. Each is a proposal entering the pipeline this page's council coverage reports the votes on.

2019563
2020490
2021541
2022591
2023408
2024291
2025312
2026107

Source: City of Hamilton, Development Applications dataset · the current year is a running count, not a total.

What is not here yet

Overdose deaths. Hamilton-specific opioid mortality exists in the provincial coroner's quarterly release and Public Health Ontario's mortality reporting, but neither publishes a machine-readable feed this pipeline can re-derive on demand, and the city's own Hamilton Opioid Information System is newly launching. Until one of those yields a checkable series, these figures stay off the page rather than approximate. Fire incidents and licensed food establishments are next in the ingest queue.

Figures last re-derived 2026-08-17 · this page rebuilds automatically when the city's data changes.