Toronto Crime Rate by Neighbourhood

Stay­ing informed about Toron­to crime rates by neigh­bour­hood is essen­tial for any­one who wants to make smarter deci­sions about safe­ty — whether you’re a home­own­er, renter, or busi­ness own­er.

While city­wide crime trends pro­vide a big-pic­ture view, neigh­bour­hood-lev­el crime data gives you the clear­est under­stand­ing of risks in your com­mu­ni­ty. At Pro­tec­tion Plus, we reviewed the lat­est reports to high­light where crime is ris­ing, where it’s falling, and what it means for res­i­dents and busi­ness­es.

Toronto Crime Rate by Neighbourhood — Key Statistics

Toron­to crime sta­tis­tics reveal the 10 neigh­bour­hoods with the most major crime indi­ca­tors (MCIs) report­ed in 2024, as well as the 10 neigh­bour­hoods with the fewest. All of the fol­low­ing data is from the Toron­to Police Ser­vice (TPS).

1. West Humber-Clairville experienced the most crime in 2024, with 1,355 MCI reports

As of Sep­tem­ber 2025, this neigh­bour­hood had 839 MCI reports, a 16% drop from 948 at the same point the pre­vi­ous year. How­ev­er, West Hum­ber-Clairville con­tin­ues to lead the city in crime.

2. Lambton Baby Point had the lowest Toronto crime rate by neighbourhood in 2024, with 72 MCI reports

Lambton Baby Point had a total of 25 MCI reports as of Sep­tem­ber 2025 — a 52.8% drop com­pared to 53 by the same point in 2024. As of Sep­tem­ber 2025, this neigh­bour­hood con­tin­ues to have the low­est num­ber of MCIs in Toron­to.

3. Mimico-Queensway saw a 51% increase in MCIs to 1,054 from 2023 to 2024 — the most significant increase in the city

This Toron­to neigh­bour­hood con­tin­ues to see a steep rise in crime in 2025, with 788 MCIs report­ed as of Sep­tem­ber. This is a 22.4% year-to-date increase over the 644 MCI reports in Mim­ico-Queensway by Sep­tem­ber the pre­vi­ous year.

These five neigh­bour­hoods saw the steep­est increas­es in MCI reports from 2023 to 2024:

1. Mim­ico-Queensway increased 51.4% to 1,054.
2. Wood­bine-Lums­den increased 40% to 91.
3. Yonge-Egling­ton increased 36.2% to 297.
4. Elms-Old Rex­dale increased 32.6% to 183.
5. Hum­ber Heights-West­mount increased 30% to 130 reports.

4. MCI reports in Forest Hill North dropped 41% to 110 from 2023 to 2024

The Toron­to neigh­bour­hood has con­tin­ued to see a decrease in MCIs in 2025, with 61 reports as of Sep­tem­ber — a 24.7% drop from 81 at the same point in 2024.

These neigh­bour­hoods expe­ri­enced the most sig­nif­i­cant decreas­es in MCI reports from 2023 to 2024.

1. For­est Hill North decreased 41.5% to 110.
2. Kingsway South decreased 40.6% to 136 reports.
3. Princess-Rosethorn decreased 39.5% to 141.
4. For­est Hill South decreased 38.8% to 137.
5. Lea­side-Ben­ning­ton decreased 35.7% to 146.

5. In 2024, 5 homicides were reported in Weston — more than any other Toronto neighbourhood

This rep­re­sents near­ly 6% of the total 85 homi­cides report­ed in Toron­to that year. How­ev­er, the pre­vi­ous year, one homi­cide was report­ed in that neigh­bour­hood, and as of Sep­tem­ber 2025, no homi­cides had been report­ed.

The fol­low­ing crimes were report­ed in West­on in 2024, includ­ing the homi­cide rate by neigh­bour­hood per 100,000 res­i­dents based on its pop­u­la­tion of 21,585:

• Homi­cide: 5 (rate: 23.16)
• Assault: 257 (rate: 1190.64)
• Shoot­ing: 8 (rate: 37.06)
• Rob­bery: 56 (rate: 259.44)
• Auto theft: 90 (rate: 416.96)
• Theft from motor vehi­cle: 70 (rate: 324.3)
• Bicy­cle theft: 12 (rate: 55.59)
• Break and enter: 53 (rate: 245.54)
• Theft over $1,000: 8 (rate: 37.06)

Year-to-date in Sep­tem­ber 2025, the Toron­to neigh­bour­hood with the most report­ed homi­cides is Ben­dale-Glen Andrew, with two reports, while city­wide homi­cides have dropped 50.8% year-over-year to a total of 30 homi­cides.

Toronto Crime Rate by Neighbourhood — Top 10 and Bottom 10

Top 10 Toronto neighbourhoods with the most crime

Toronto’s high­est-crime neigh­bour­hoods in 2024 were West Hum­ber-Clairville, Mim­ico-Queensway, and Down­town Yonge East. While West Hum­ber-Clairville, Moss Park, and oth­er areas have seen year-over-year declines, oth­ers such as Mim­ico-Queensway and St. Lawrence-East Bayfront have expe­ri­enced sig­nif­i­cant recent increas­es.

Neigh­bour­hood	2024 MCI Reports	% Change vs. 2023	2025 YTD (to Sept)	% Change YTD 2025 vs. 2024
West Hum­ber- Clairville	1,355	↓ 14.1%	839	↓ 11.5%
Mim­ico- Queensway	1,054	↑ 51.4%	788	↑ 22.4%
Down­town Yonge East	978	↓ 2.7%	555	↓ 20.6%
York Uni­ver­si­ty Heights	969	↓ 12.8%	651	↓ 0.9%
Moss Park	933	↓ 3.0%	623	↓ 6.7%
Yonge-Bay Cor­ri­dor	879	↑ 3.4%	609	↑ 3.0%
Kens­ing­ton- Chi­na­town	843	↑ 4.2%	518	↓ 12.9%
St. Lawrence- East Bayfront- The Islands	794	↑ 14.1%	525	↓ 5.4%
Welling­ton Place	774	↑ 3.5%	505	↓ 7.8%
NSA	764	↑ 13.7%	502	↓ 2.9%

Top 10 Toronto neighbourhoods with the least crime

The fol­low­ing 10 neigh­bour­hoods had the low­est num­ber of MCI reports in 2024. We’ve includ­ed the per­cent­age of change over the pre­vi­ous year and the year-to-date reports as of Sep­tem­ber 2025.

Neigh­bour­hood	2024 MCI Reports	% Change vs. 2023	2025 YTD (to Sept)	% Change 2025 YTD vs. 2024
Lambton Baby Point	72	↓ 7.7%	25	↓ 52.8%
Guild­wood	89	↓ 11.9%	48	↓ 18.6%
Wood­bine- Lums­den	91	↑ 40.0%	61	↑ 7.0%
Blake-Jones	105	↓ 27.6%	61	↓ 11.4%
For­est Hill North	110	↓ 41.5%	61	↓ 24.7%
Cale­do­nia- Fair­bank	111	↓ 10.5%	88	↑ 14.3%
Avon­dale	113	↑ 1.8%	87	↑ 40.3%
Cen­ten­ni­al Scar­bor­ough	117	↓ 1.7%	84	0%
Maple Leaf	117	↓ 9.3%	72	↓ 24.2%
Pleas­ant View	120	↓ 14.9%	82	↑ 3.8%

These areas record­ed the low­est neigh­bour­hood crime rates in Toron­to in 2024, with Lambton Baby Point and Guild­wood stand­ing out as the safest com­mu­ni­ties. While areas like For­est Hill North and Blake-Jones saw notable decreas­es, Wood­bine-Lums­den and Avon­dale record­ed sharp increas­es com­pared to the pre­vi­ous year.

Toronto Crime Rate by Neighbourhood — Homicide Map

The map below from the Toron­to Police Pub­lic Safe­ty Data Por­tal reveals the loca­tion of every homi­cide report­ed in the city of Toron­to from 2004 to Sep­tem­ber 2025. Blue mark­ers indi­cate homi­cides report­ed from approx­i­mate­ly the past 5 years, from 2021 to Sep­tem­ber 2025, and gray mark­ers indi­cate homi­cides report­ed from 2004 to 2020:

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As we’ve men­tioned, Toron­to record­ed 85 homi­cides in 2024, and five of those were in the West­on neigh­bour­hood.

Addi­tion­al­ly:

• There were three report­ed homi­cides in Black Creek, Rock­cliffe-Smythe, and Scar­bor­ough Vil­lage.
• There were two report­ed homi­cides in Agin­court North, Alder­wood, Ban­bury-Don Mills, Beech­bor­ough-Green­brook, Ben­dale-Glen Andrew, Blake-Jones, Bri­ar Hill-Bel­gravia, Down­town Yonge East, Duf­ferin Grove, Engle­mount-Lawrence, Har­bourfront-City­Place, Mim­ico-Queensway, Mount Olive-Sil­ver­stone-Jamestown, Oakridge, Oak­wood Vil­lage, Pel­mo Park-Hum­ber­lea, Regent Park, Ron­ces­valles, and West Hill.
• There was one report­ed homi­cide each in Broad­view North, Brookhaven-Ames­bury, Clan­ton Park, Cor­so Italia-Dav­en­port, Dorset Park, East L’Amoreaux, Eto­bi­coke West Mall, For­est Hill North, Hill­crest Vil­lage, Ion­view, The Junc­tion, Lans­ing-West­gate, Lawrence Park South, Long Branch, Morn­ing­side, Moss Park, New Toron­to, North St. James Town, Oak­dale-Bev­er­ley Heights, Pleas­ant View, Princess Rosethorn, Rex­dale-Kipling, Run­nymede-Bloor West Vil­lage, Rus­tic, South Park­dale, The Beach­es, Welling­ton Place, West Hum­ber-Clairville, West­on-Pel­ham Park, Wexford/Maryvale, Yonge-Bay Cor­ri­dor, York Uni­ver­si­ty Heights, and York­dale-Glen Park.

Two homi­cides were not assigned to spe­cif­ic neigh­bour­hoods in the dataset.

Toronto Crime Rate by Neighbourhood

The fol­low­ing maps show the rate of spe­cif­ic crimes report­ed across Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods. These include homi­cide, assault, shoot­ing, rob­bery, auto theft, theft from a motor vehi­cle, bicy­cle theft, break and enter, and theft over $1,000.

1. Homicide Rate by Neighbourhood

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In 2024, homi­cides were con­cen­trat­ed in south­west­ern neigh­bour­hoods, includ­ing Alder­wood, Long Branch, New Toron­to, and Mim­ico-Queensway. How­ev­er, they were also spread across oth­er neigh­bour­hoods in the west­ern half of the city, such as Black Creek and Princess-Rosethorn, as well as some down­town and east­ern neigh­bour­hoods. Homi­cides were less like­ly to occur in cen­tral or down­town areas.

2. Assault Rate by Neighbourhood

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Assaults tend­ed to clus­ter in down­town neigh­bour­hoods like Yonge-Bay Cor­ri­dor, Church-Welles­ley, and Moss Park, as well as some north­ern, south­west­ern, and east­ern neigh­bour­hoods, like West Hill. They were less com­mon in cen­tral, north­ern, and north­east­ern neigh­bour­hoods.

3. Shooting Rate by Neighbourhood

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Shoot­ings occurred at a high­er rate in north­west­ern and north­east­ern Toron­to, in neigh­bour­hoods like York Uni­ver­si­ty Heights, Hum­ber Sum­mit, and Morn­ing­side Heights. There were sig­nif­i­cant­ly few­er reports of shoot­ings in the cen­tre of the city, except Kens­ing­ton-Chi­na­town and Regent Park.

4. Robbery Rate by Neighbourhood

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Rob­beries occurred at an ele­vat­ed rate through­out down­town Toron­to, with many neigh­bour­hoods in the area see­ing a rob­bery rate of 145 to 443. Also, neigh­bour­hoods in the north­ern areas of the city had some of the high­est rates, from West Hum­ber-Clairville to Mil­liken.

5. Auto Theft Rate by Neighbourhood

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Auto thefts in Toron­to were wide­spread but more like­ly to occur out­side of the city cen­tre, from West Hum­ber-Clairville to Morn­ing­side Heights, down to Clif­fcrest, and across to Eto­bi­coke City Cen­tre.

6. Theft from Motor Vehicle Rate by Neighbourhood

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Theft from motor vehi­cles was con­cen­trat­ed in down­town Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods as well as in south­ern, west­ern, and east­ern areas. For exam­ple, South Riverdale, Eto­bi­coke City Cen­tre, West Hill, Oak­dale-Bev­er­ley Heights, Wexford/Maryvale, and many oth­er neigh­bour­hoods saw this prop­er­ty crime rate in the high­est range of 308 to 1,314.

7. Bicycle Theft Rate by Neighbourhood

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Bicy­cle theft was preva­lent near the city cen­tre in neigh­bour­hoods like Palmer­ston-Lit­tle Italy, Trin­i­ty Bell­woods, and Lit­tle Por­tu­gal. South­ern areas like St. Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands and South Riverdale also saw high bicy­cle theft rates. Most neigh­bour­hoods away from the city cen­tre saw rel­a­tive­ly few or no bicy­cle thefts.

8. Break-and-Enter Rate by Neighbourhood

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Break-and-enter was more preva­lent in cen­tral and west­ern Toron­to, par­tic­u­lar­ly in neigh­bour­hoods such as Kens­ing­ton-Chi­na­town, Bri­dle Path-Sun­ny­brook-York Mills, and Isling­ton. Break-and-enter was sig­nif­i­cant­ly less com­mon in east­ern Toron­to, with rates rang­ing from 38 to 117 in most neigh­bour­hoods.

9. Theft Over $1,000 Rate by Neighbourhood

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Theft over $1,000 occurred at a high­er rate in many neigh­bour­hoods near the city cen­tre or south cen­tral Toron­to, such as North St. James Town, Fort York-Lib­er­ty Vil­lage, and Duf­ferin Grove. Neigh­bour­hoods scat­tered around the state, such as New­town­brook West, Mil­liken, and Ben­dale-Glen Andrew, also saw theft rates at the high­est range of $1,000 or more, with 75 to 289 inci­dents.

What Toronto Crime Rates by Neighbourhood Reveal

Toron­to crime rates by neigh­bour­hood high­light key dif­fer­ences across the city. While data sources reveal year-over-year declines in some areas, oth­ers face sharp increas­es in MCIs. Here are some key take­aways:

• High-crime areas like West Hum­ber-Clairville, Mim­ico-Queensway, and Down­town Yonge East con­tin­ue to report the most MCI cas­es.
• Low-crime neigh­bour­hoods such as Lambton Baby Point and Guild­wood con­sis­tent­ly rank among the safest, with the fewest police-report­ed inci­dents.
• Shift­ing trends are evi­dent: Mim­ico-Queensway has seen a sharp rise in crime, while For­est Hill North and Kingsway South report sig­nif­i­cant decreas­es.
• Vio­lent crime (homi­cides, shoot­ings, assaults) is more con­cen­trat­ed in cer­tain west­ern, north­ern, and down­town neigh­bour­hoods.
• Prop­er­ty crimes such as auto theft, bicy­cle theft, and break-and-enter remain more wide­spread, often affect­ing both high- and low-crime com­mu­ni­ties.

These trends reveal that crime in Toron­to is high­ly local­ized, mak­ing neigh­bour­hood-spe­cif­ic data essen­tial for safe­ty plan­ning.

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Toronto Crime Rate by Neighbourhood — FAQs

The fol­low­ing are fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about the Toron­to crime rate by neigh­bour­hood.

What is the safest area in Toronto?

Toron­to Police crime report­ing shows that Lambton, Baby Point and Guild­wood ranked among the safest neigh­bour­hoods in 2024. Both report­ed very low major crime indi­ca­tors with no homi­cides.

Are there areas to avoid in Toronto?

Some Toron­to neigh­bour­hoods, like St. James Town and Moss Park, record high­er rates of crime due to dense pop­u­la­tions and socioe­co­nom­ic chal­lenges. Aware­ness and cau­tion are advised in these areas.

Is crime low in Toronto?

Yes. Com­pared to many U.S. cities, Toron­to — Canada’s largest city — has low­er vio­lent crime rates. Most inci­dents in Ontario’s cap­i­tal are prop­er­ty-relat­ed and con­cen­trat­ed in spe­cif­ic neigh­bour­hoods.

Is it safe to walk in Toronto at night?

Gen­er­al­ly, yes, espe­cial­ly in busy areas like the down­town core. Avoid walk­ing alone in iso­lat­ed parks or poor­ly lit streets after dark.

Is the Toronto subway safe at night?

The TTC is wide­ly used, but some rid­ers may feel less safe on the sub­way at night com­pared to bus­es or street­cars. Trav­el with oth­ers when pos­si­ble.