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.
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.
| Year | Killed | Injured | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 14 | 1,677 | ||
| 2009 | 14 | 1,667 | ||
| 2010 | 20 | 1,811 | ||
| 2011 | 17 | 1,835 | ||
| 2012 | 20 | 1,795 | ||
| 2013 | 14 | 1,740 | ||
| 2014 | 16 | 1,830 | ||
| 2015 | 14 | 1,931 | ||
| 2016 | 11 | 1,936 | ||
| 2017 | 16 | 1,682 | ||
| 2018 | 11 | 1,561 | ||
| 2019 | 14 | 1,469 | ||
| 2020 | 13 | 1,141 | ||
| 2021 | 16 | 1,162 | ||
| 2022 | 16 | 1,150 | ||
| 2023 | 14 | 977 | ||
| 2024 | 14 | 962 | ||
| 2025 | 13 | 922 |
The second most common entry is driving properly: in 52 fatal collisions the record shows no driver error at all.
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.
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.
| Ward | Violent YTD | Property YTD | Violent this month | Property this month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 1 | 137 | 482 | 26 | 105 |
| Ward 2 | 660 | 794 | 142 | 177 |
| Ward 3 | 582 | 789 | 132 | 163 |
| Ward 4 | 347 | 636 | 87 | 131 |
| Ward 5 | 267 | 690 | 44 | 128 |
| Ward 6 | 186 | 378 | 45 | 95 |
| Ward 7 | 287 | 514 | 65 | 96 |
| Ward 8 | 166 | 489 | 35 | 119 |
| Ward 14 | 138 | 264 | 36 | 51 |
Source: Hamilton Police Service ward reports · a dash means the report's layout defeated exact extraction for that figure, and nothing was guessed.
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.
Source: City of Hamilton, Development Applications dataset · the current year is a running count, not a total.
Paramedics answered 190 opioid-related calls in August 2026. In 2017 the monthly average was 36.
Source: City of Hamilton Public Health, Hamilton Opioid Information System · suspect drug-related deaths are coroner-reported and preliminary, and recent months rise as records arrive.
The city counts the people it knows to be homeless once a month. It is a point-in-time count of people known to the system, not an estimate of everyone unhoused, and it is a level rather than a running total: the months are not added together, because it is largely the same people counted again each month.
Of the 2,037 counted in August 2026, 910 had been homeless longer than six months and 1,127 for less than six.
That window covers 35 calendar months. The city published no count for 11 of them, so those months are absent from the chart below rather than drawn as zero, and the bars are not evenly spaced in time.
Source: City of Hamilton, Scale of Homelessness dataset · months the city published without a count are left out rather than shown as zero.
Beds filled as a share of the beds that sector has. Over 100% means the sector ran past its own capacity.
| Sector | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Men | 95% |
| Women | 94% |
| Families | 87% |
| Youth | 50% |
| Emergency | 57% |
| Mixed | 84% |
| Asylum claimants | 58% |
Source: City of Hamilton, Shelter Occupancy dataset
The city also publishes two annual figures that it stopped updating after 2019, so they are history rather than current record. In 2019, 2,902 distinct people used a shelter (dataset). In 2019, 1,622 people were recorded in chronic homelessness (dataset).
The unemployment rate for the Hamilton area, from Statistics Canada's monthly Labour Force Survey — a three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted. This is the one figure on this page that updates every month.
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area (table 14-10-0459)
Average household income (2020 incomes, from the census), the share of households spending 30% or more of income on housing (2021), and two health measures from the city's 2016 custom tabulations — older, but the only ward-level health record the city publishes. The average household in Ward 14 has 2.7× the income of one in Ward 2.
| Ward | Avg household income (2020) | Spending 30%+ on housing (2021) | ED visits per 1,000 (2016) | Average age at death (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $89,500 | 31% | 499 | 77 |
| 2 | $67,900 | 35% | 675 | 71 |
| 3 | $73,500 | 30% | 700 | 70.7 |
| 4 | $82,900 | 24% | 596 | 72.4 |
| 5 | $81,800 | 26% | 561 | 75.5 |
| 6 | $101,600 | 19% | 527 | 75.5 |
| 7 | $92,300 | 21% | 489 | 76.7 |
| 8 | $103,200 | 21% | 381 | 76.8 |
| 9 | $127,900 | 22% | 347 | 77.2 |
| 10 | $122,200 | 19% | 427 | 75.9 |
| 11 | $126,600 | 17% | 187 | 75.3 |
| 12 | $162,600 | 18% | 237 | 79.5 |
| 13 | $131,000 | 19% | 309 | 80.4 |
| 14 | $184,800 | 16% | 405 | 79.6 |
| 15 | $155,800 | 18% | 146 | 76.9 |
Sources: Census income by ward · housing tenure and shelter-cost ratio · health care use · health status, all City of Hamilton open data.
Hamilton charges different rates in each of its six former municipalities, because transit and fire service are billed only where they are provided. The figures are the city's own, for 2026, on its average assessed home of $387,100. "By ward" does not exist in the public record; this community split is the finest official cut there is.
| Community | Service tier | Total residential rate | Taxes on a $387,100 home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancaster | Urban with Full Time Fire | 1.428% | $5,526 |
| Ancaster | Urban with Composite Fire | 1.346% | $5,212 |
| Ancaster | Rural with Full Time Fire | 1.367% | $5,290 |
| Ancaster | Rural with Composite Fire | 1.285% | $4,975 |
| Ancaster | Rural with Volunteer Fire | 1.252% | $4,848 |
| Dundas | Urban with Composite Fire | 1.424% | $5,513 |
| Dundas | Rural with Composite Fire | 1.367% | $5,293 |
| Dundas | Rural with Volunteer Fire | 1.286% | $4,979 |
| Flamborough | Urban with Composite Fire | 1.319% | $5,106 |
| Flamborough | Rural with Composite Fire | 1.280% | $4,956 |
| Flamborough | Rural with Volunteer Fire | 1.247% | $4,828 |
| Glanbrook | Urban with Full Time Fire | 1.446% | $5,598 |
| Glanbrook | Urban with Composite Fire | 1.365% | $5,284 |
| Glanbrook | Urban with Volunteer Fire | 1.332% | $5,156 |
| Glanbrook | Rural with Full Time Fire | 1.361% | $5,270 |
| Glanbrook | Rural with Composite Fire | 1.280% | $4,956 |
| Glanbrook | Rural with Volunteer Fire | 1.247% | $4,828 |
| Hamilton | Urban with Full Time Fire | 1.557% | $6,028 |
| Hamilton | Urban with Composite Fire | 1.476% | $5,714 |
| Stoney Creek | Urban with Full Time Fire | 1.420% | $5,497 |
| Stoney Creek | Urban with Composite Fire | 1.339% | $5,183 |
| Stoney Creek | Urban with Volunteer Fire | 1.306% | $5,055 |
| Stoney Creek | Rural with Composite Fire | 1.283% | $4,965 |
| Stoney Creek | Rural with Volunteer Fire | 1.250% | $4,837 |
Source: City of Hamilton, How Property Tax Rates are Calculated · rates include the education portion the province sets.
Businesses and industry carry 12% of the city's assessment base in 2026, down from 13% in 2016 — the rest sits on homes (dataset). Tax arrears were 3.3% of the levy in 2022, the newest year the city has published (dataset).
What Hamilton tenants actually pay, from CMHC's October survey of occupied purpose-built rentals. Long-standing tenancies at long-standing prices are in the average, so it sits well below today's asking rents — this is the cost of staying, not the cost of moving.
| Year | Bachelor | One bedroom | Two bedroom | Three bedroom+ | All sizes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $655 | $812 | $966 | $1,096 | $901 |
| 2017 | $632 | $845 | $1,030 | $1,129 | $944 |
| 2018 | $746 | $916 | $1,085 | $1,257 | $1,009 |
| 2019 | $814 | $963 | $1,130 | $1,283 | $1,055 |
| 2020 | $867 | $1,033 | $1,184 | $1,350 | $1,118 |
| 2021 | $915 | $1,095 | $1,271 | $1,479 | $1,190 |
| 2022 | $920 | $1,142 | $1,335 | $1,450 | $1,242 |
| 2023 | $1,017 | $1,326 | $1,545 | $1,645 | $1,431 |
| 2024 | $1,021 | $1,361 | $1,520 | $1,693 | $1,438 |
| 2025 | $1,053 | $1,343 | $1,528 | $1,677 | $1,439 |
Source: City of Hamilton open data, Average Market Rent (CMHC) · surveyed each October; occupied units, not asking rents.
The backdrop to the plateau: the apartment vacancy rate was 3.6% in 2025, up from 1.8% at the 2022 trough — empty units compete, and rents stopped climbing (CMHC via Statistics Canada).
Fire incidents and licensed food establishments are next in the ingest queue, and suspect-death figures by neighbourhood exist on the city's dashboard once there is a clean way to date them.
Figures last re-derived 2026-09-07 · this page rebuilds automatically when the city's data changes.