Ontario, California reported 264 non-residential burglaries in 2025 — 74.2% of all burglaries in the city — after 337 in 2024, 76.4% of that year’s total. In this San Bernardino County city, roughly three of every four burglaries strike premises that are not homes, and that has been true in every one of the past five years. 18.0% of 2025’s burglaries were reported cleared. Every figure on this page comes from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes & Clearances collection, as reported by the Ontario Police Department, and every one can be reproduced from the public file.
By Jacob Ross, Security Specialist · Guardian Integrated Security · CA PPO #121089 · Last updated August 29, 2026
Nothing here is estimated, modeled or borrowed from another city’s data. Counts come from one primary source — the CA DOJ’s statewide Crimes & Clearances file, filtered to the Ontario Police Department. Where a percentage is calculated rather than stated by the source, its inputs are shown so you can check the arithmetic.
Ontario Commercial Burglary: The Key Numbers
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- Ontario PD reported 264 non-residential burglaries in 2025, against 92 residential burglaries — 356 burglary offenses in total.
- Non-residential burglaries were 74.2% of all Ontario burglary in 2025 (264 of 356) — nearly three non-residential break-ins for every residential one.
- The non-residential share was 76.4% in 2024 (337 of 441) and has stayed near three in four in every one of the past five years, peaking at 78.5% in 2023.
- Non-residential burglary has fallen two straight years — down 48.8% from its five-year peak of 516 offenses in 2023 to 264 in 2025.
- 18.0% of Ontario burglaries were reported cleared in 2025 — 64 of 356, the highest rate of the past five years.
- 79.5% of all Ontario burglaries in 2025 involved forcible entry — 283 of 356.
- Night-coded non-residential burglaries outnumbered day-coded ones in every year from 2021 through 2025 — 123 versus 87 in 2025.
- Ontario’s 264 non-residential burglaries were 0.4% of the 68,153 reported by California law-enforcement agencies statewide in 2025 (CA DOJ Crimes & Clearances).
264 Non-Residential Burglaries in 2025 — 74.2% of the City’s Total
The state’s data splits burglary by premise into residential and non-residential. Non-residential is the category that covers businesses — stores, offices, warehouses, distribution and industrial buildings — along with some non-commercial structures such as schools and places of worship. It is the closest thing in California’s published data to an Ontario commercial burglary count, and the premise coding is the Ontario Police Department’s own.
- Total burglary offenses reported in 2025: 356.
- Non-residential: 264 — 74.2% of the total.
- Residential: 92 — 25.8% of the total.
The two premise categories sum exactly to the total, with no undesignated remainder — a reconciliation this page re-checked against the source file rather than assumed. Ontario’s burglary problem lands overwhelmingly on premises that are not homes: nearly three non-residential break-ins were reported for every residential one in 2025, and the balance was tilted even further in earlier years.
Non-Residential Burglary Is Down 48.8% From Its 2023 Peak
Across the five most recent complete years in the state’s file, Ontario’s reported non-residential burglary count peaked at 516 in 2023 and has fallen two straight years since — 337 in 2024 and 264 in 2025, a 48.8% decline from the peak. Measured from 2021, the decline is 29.6%. All burglary combined fell 45.8% from 2023 to 2025.
| Year | All burglary | Residential | Non-residential | Non-residential share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 502 | 127 | 375 | 74.7% |
| 2022 | 653 | 157 | 496 | 76.0% |
| 2023 | 657 | 141 | 516 | 78.5% |
| 2024 | 441 | 104 | 337 | 76.4% |
| 2025 | 356 | 92 | 264 | 74.2% |
Source: CA DOJ Crimes & Clearances, Ontario Police Department rows. The decline is real and worth stating plainly. So is what it does not change: in every one of those five years, roughly three of every four Ontario burglaries were non-residential — the share ran from 74.2% (2025, the five-year low) to 78.5% (2023) and never came close to an even split.
Night-Coded Non-Residential Burglaries Outnumber Day-Coded Ones Every Year
The state’s file records whether each non-residential burglary was coded as a night-time or daytime offense — the coding, again, is the reporting department’s own. For Ontario, a portion of offenses in every year carries no time designation at all — in 2025, 54 of the 264 non-residential burglaries, more than one in five — so this page does not print a night-share percentage: any share computed from the coded offenses alone would not describe the full count. The coded counts themselves are still worth stating.
- 2025: 123 coded night, 87 coded day, 54 with no time designation.
- 2024: 138 coded night, 84 coded day, 115 with no time designation.
- In every year from 2021 through 2025, night-coded non-residential burglaries outnumbered day-coded ones — 155 vs 65 (2021), 205 vs 126 (2022), 234 vs 112 (2023), 138 vs 84 (2024), 123 vs 87 (2025).
18.0% of Ontario Burglaries Were Reported Cleared in 2025
Clearances in this dataset are reported for burglary as a whole, not split by premise. Ontario’s 2025 rate is the highest of the past five years — and it still leaves more than four in five offenses without a reported clearance.
- 2025: 64 clearances against 356 offenses — 18.0%. The remaining 292 offenses (82.0%) had no clearance reported.
- 2024: 72 clearances against 441 offenses — 16.3%.
- 2023: 75 against 657 — 11.4%.
- 2022: 72 against 653 — 11.0%.
- 2021: 67 against 502 — 13.3%.
Two caveats belong next to these numbers. Clearance figures are point-in-time: cases still open when the department reported can be cleared later, so a year’s final picture can improve after the fact. And a year’s clearances are the clearances the department reported that year, which is not necessarily an arrest for that same year’s offenses.
Nearly Four in Five Ontario Burglaries Involve Forcible Entry
The dataset also splits burglary by method of entry, across all premises. Ontario’s split has been stable, and high, for five years.
- 2025: 283 forcible-entry burglaries (79.5%) versus 73 unlawful entries without force (20.5%).
- The forcible-entry share held between 77.0% and 79.8% in every year from 2021 through 2025.
Nearly four out of five Ontario burglars defeat a physical barrier — a door, a window, a lock — rather than walking through one left open. Hardware alone is being beaten at that rate; what the data cannot show is how often an intruder was seen while it was happening.
What This Means for an Ontario Business
Three findings on this page sit together. Ontario’s burglary problem is roughly three-quarters non-residential — 74.2% of offenses in 2025, a share that has stayed near three in four for five straight years, one of the defining facts of a city whose commercial base runs to warehouses, distribution yards and industrial parks. Among offenses that carry a time code, night consistently outnumbers day. And 82.0% of the year’s offenses had no reported clearance, which means prevention and interruption are worth more than after-the-fact evidence.
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APA — Ross, J. (2026). Ontario, CA commercial burglary statistics: DOJ data. Guardian Integrated Security. https://www.guardianintegratedsecurity.com/ontario-commercial-burglary-statistics/
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These statistics may be used with attribution and a link to this page. Journalists and researchers who need a cut of this data we have not published — another year, another split, or the underlying rows — can contact us and we will run the query.
Sources
- California Department of Justice, Crimes & Clearances (with Arson), 1985–2025, OpenJustice open-data collection, July 2026 release (complete calendar years through 2025); Ontario Police Department rows. OpenJustice data portal. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- City of Ontario (California), Police Department Crime Mapping page — cited only for the fact that the city’s public crime-data channel is the LexisNexis Community Crime Map, an incident map limited to 500 records per query; no figure on this page is drawn from it, because a rolling incident map cannot be re-run by a reader as an annual series. ontarioca.gov. Accessed August 29, 2026.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer, Ontario Police Department (ORI CA0360700), burglary offense counts 2024–2025 — used only as a cross-check, never mixed into the tables above. cde.ucr.cjis.gov. Accessed August 29, 2026.
Methodology
All crime counts on this page come from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes & Clearances (with Arson) collection, published on the DOJ’s OpenJustice open-data portal. The file spans 1985 through 2025 in complete calendar years; this page presents the five most recent (2021–2025). Figures were taken by filtering the statewide file to County = “San Bernardino County” and agency (NCIC code) = “Ontario” — the Ontario Police Department, in Ontario, California — and reading the burglary columns directly: total burglary, residential and non-residential premise counts, the night/day/undesignated time coding of each premise category, method-of-entry counts, and reported clearances. The file was retrieved and all figures re-computed on August 29, 2026. Internal reconciliations were checked rather than assumed: for every year shown, residential plus non-residential equals total burglary, night plus day plus any undesignated-time count equals each premise total, and forcible plus non-forcible entry equals total burglary. Percentages are calculated from the counts shown, to one decimal place. The one statewide figure (68,153 non-residential burglaries in 2025) is the sum of the same column across all reporting agencies in the same file.
Dataset landing page: OpenJustice — California Department of Justice open data.
The DOJ refreshes and revises this collection as agencies amend their submissions, so every figure here is point-in-time as of the August 29, 2026 retrieval and may differ slightly from a copy downloaded later; figures are re-checked at each monthly re-audit.
Three notes on how the numbers are made. First, the premise coding (residential versus non-residential), the night/day coding and the method-of-entry coding are the Ontario Police Department’s own, made when each offense is recorded and reported to the DOJ — this page applies no reclassification of its own, and “non-residential” includes some non-commercial structures. Second, no night-share percentage is printed anywhere on this page: in every year from 2021 through 2025 a block of Ontario’s non-residential burglaries carries no time designation in the file (54 offenses in 2025, 115 in 2024, and between 155 and 170 in each of 2021–2023), so a share computed from the coded offenses alone would misdescribe the full count — the page reports the coded counts instead. Third, clearances are point-in-time and reported for burglary as a whole: open cases may be cleared after the reporting year closes, and a year’s clearance count is not restricted to that year’s offenses. Separately, the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer reports 441 burglary offenses for this agency in 2024 and 356 in 2025 — identical to the DOJ figures, with clearance counts (72 and 64) matching as well; the cross-check is noted here and the two programs’ numbers are still never mixed in the tables above.
