District safety · Toronto · data through September 2026

How safe is East York, Toronto?

East York, Toronto covers 8 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 60/100 — above the citywide median of 54, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Toronto. O'Connor-Parkview scores highest at 72/100; Taylor-Massey lowest at 26/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 8 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 5 moderate, 3 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in East York, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 O'Connor-Parkview	72/100	Moderate	68
2 Old East York	66/100	Moderate	92
3 Leaside-Bennington	64/100	Moderate	113
4 Broadview North	60/100	Moderate	130
5 Thorncliffe Park	50/100	Moderate	185
6 Woodbine-Lumsden	45/100	Elevated	204
7 Danforth East York	44/100	Elevated	217
8 Taylor-Massey	26/100	Elevated	484

How East York compares across Toronto

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Etobicoke	68/100	22
North York	65/100	37
East York (this page)	60/100	8
Scarborough	59/100	30
York	55/100	11
Old Toronto	36/100	50

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Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in East York, Toronto?

O'Connor-Parkview has the highest SafeRoute safety index in East York, Toronto, at 72/100 (moderate), from 68 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Old East York (66/100) and Leaside-Bennington (64/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in East York, Toronto has the most reported crime?

Taylor-Massey has the lowest index in East York, Toronto, at 26/100, with 484 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. A low score means more is reported around that centre, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is East York, Toronto safe?

Across its 8 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 60/100, against 54 across Toronto. 0 rate low risk, 5 moderate, 3 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the district — check the individual neighbourhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each incident reported to the Toronto Police Service by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighbourhood centre, and normalizes against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for East York, Toronto is the median of its 8 neighbourhoods — the district is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident reported to the Toronto Police Service (Major Crime Indicators — assault, robbery, break & enter, auto theft and theft over, via the TPS Public Safety Data Portal) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighbourhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the City of Toronto's 158 official neighbourhoods, grouped under the six former municipalities (Old Toronto, North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, East York and York) that people still use as districts. Time-of-day charts use TPS occurrence timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighbourhoods within Toronto. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Toronto's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.