District safety · Toronto · data through September 2026

How safe is North York, Toronto?

North York, Toronto covers 37 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 65/100 — above the citywide median of 54, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Toronto. Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills scores highest at 92/100; Oakdale-Beverley Heights lowest at 37/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 8 of 37 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 21 moderate, 8 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in North York, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills	92/100	Low risk	15
2 Bayview Woods-Steeles	82/100	Low risk	44
3 Hillcrest Village	80/100	Low risk	53
4 Lansing-Westgate	80/100	Low risk	50
5 St.Andrew-Windfields	80/100	Low risk	49
6 Downsview	77/100	Low risk	61
7 Humber Summit	75/100	Low risk	75
8 Willowdale West	75/100	Low risk	60
9 Newtonbrook West	73/100	Moderate	65
10 Victoria Village	72/100	Moderate	82
11 Bayview Village	70/100	Moderate	77
12 Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills	70/100	Moderate	82
13 Bathurst Manor	68/100	Moderate	87
14 Pleasant View	67/100	Moderate	94
15 Banbury-Don Mills	66/100	Moderate	106
16 East Willowdale	66/100	Moderate	97
17 Bedford Park-Nortown	65/100	Moderate	116
18 Maple Leaf	65/100	Moderate	108
19 Newtonbrook East	65/100	Moderate	109
20 Pelmo Park-Humberlea	65/100	Moderate	102
21 Clanton Park	62/100	Moderate	112
22 Fenside-Parkwoods	62/100	Moderate	121
23 Don Valley Village	60/100	Moderate	119
24 Rustic	58/100	Moderate	132
25 Westminster-Branson	58/100	Moderate	133
26 Brookhaven-Amesbury	56/100	Moderate	143
27 Humbermede	53/100	Moderate	176
28 York University Heights	50/100	Moderate	191
29 Yorkdale-Glen Park	50/100	Moderate	186
30 Avondale	47/100	Elevated	205
31 Englemount-Lawrence	46/100	Elevated	206
32 Flemingdon Park	44/100	Elevated	218
33 Henry Farm	44/100	Elevated	236
34 Glenfield-Jane Heights	40/100	Elevated	251
35 Black Creek	38/100	Elevated	289
36 Yonge-Doris	38/100	Elevated	275
37 Oakdale-Beverley Heights	37/100	Elevated	312

How North York compares across Toronto

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Etobicoke	68/100	22
North York (this page)	65/100	37
East York	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 North York, Toronto?

Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills has the highest SafeRoute safety index in North York, Toronto, at 92/100 (low risk), from 15 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Bayview Woods-Steeles (82/100) and Hillcrest Village (80/100) follow.

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

Oakdale-Beverley Heights has the lowest index in North York, Toronto, at 37/100, with 312 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 North York, Toronto safe?

Across its 37 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 65/100, against 54 across Toronto. 8 rate low risk, 21 moderate, 8 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 North York, Toronto is the median of its 37 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.