District safety · Toronto · data through June 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 53, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Toronto. Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills scores highest at 91/100; Yonge-Doris lowest at 38/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 6 of 37 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 22 moderate, 9 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in North York, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills	91/100	Low risk	15
2 Bayview Woods-Steeles	80/100	Low risk	46
3 St.Andrew-Windfields	80/100	Low risk	41
4 Lansing-Westgate	79/100	Low risk	47
5 Hillcrest Village	78/100	Low risk	51
6 Willowdale West	76/100	Low risk	51
7 Bayview Village	74/100	Moderate	59
8 Downsview	74/100	Moderate	58
9 Newtonbrook West	74/100	Moderate	61
10 Humber Summit	73/100	Moderate	70
11 Victoria Village	73/100	Moderate	69
12 Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills	72/100	Moderate	70
13 Bathurst Manor	70/100	Moderate	76
14 Pleasant View	70/100	Moderate	73
15 Banbury-Don Mills	68/100	Moderate	88
16 Bedford Park-Nortown	68/100	Moderate	99
17 Pelmo Park-Humberlea	68/100	Moderate	90
18 East Willowdale	67/100	Moderate	86
19 Maple Leaf	65/100	Moderate	94
20 Newtonbrook East	63/100	Moderate	100
21 Clanton Park	62/100	Moderate	97
22 Fenside-Parkwoods	62/100	Moderate	105
23 Rustic	60/100	Moderate	113
24 Don Valley Village	59/100	Moderate	109
25 Westminster-Branson	58/100	Moderate	121
26 Brookhaven-Amesbury	56/100	Moderate	128
27 Humbermede	51/100	Moderate	182
28 York University Heights	50/100	Moderate	169
29 Yorkdale-Glen Park	49/100	Elevated	173
30 Englemount-Lawrence	48/100	Elevated	171
31 Henry Farm	45/100	Elevated	201
32 Flemingdon Park	44/100	Elevated	197
33 Avondale	43/100	Elevated	215
34 Black Creek	40/100	Elevated	244
35 Glenfield-Jane Heights	39/100	Elevated	230
36 Oakdale-Beverley Heights	39/100	Elevated	269
37 Yonge-Doris	38/100	Elevated	260

How North York compares across Toronto

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Etobicoke	67/100	22
North York (this page)	65/100	37
Scarborough	61/100	30
East York	59/100	8
York	53/100	11
Old Toronto	36/100	50

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 91/100 (low risk), from 15 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Bayview Woods-Steeles (80/100) and St.Andrew-Windfields (80/100) follow.

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

Yonge-Doris has the lowest index in North York, Toronto, at 38/100, with 260 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 53 across Toronto. 6 rate low risk, 22 moderate, 9 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.