District safety · Toronto · data through September 2026

How safe is Old Toronto?

Old Toronto covers 50 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 36/100 — below the citywide median of 54, so more is reported around a typical neighbourhood here than across Toronto. Forest Hill South scores highest at 71/100; Yonge-Bay Corridor lowest at 8/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 50 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 7 moderate, 28 elevated and 15 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Old Toronto, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Forest Hill South	71/100	Moderate	76
2 Rosedale-Moore Park	68/100	Moderate	98
3 Lawrence Park North	66/100	Moderate	103
4 Lawrence Park South	63/100	Moderate	116
5 High Park-Swansea	62/100	Moderate	107
6 Forest Hill North	55/100	Moderate	143
7 Yonge-St.Clair	53/100	Moderate	171
8 The Beaches	48/100	Elevated	186
9 Corso Italia-Davenport	47/100	Elevated	205
10 Junction Area	47/100	Elevated	202
11 Casa Loma	45/100	Elevated	219
12 Greenwood-Coxwell	45/100	Elevated	203
13 Woodbine Corridor	45/100	Elevated	209
14 Wychwood	43/100	Elevated	241
15 Danforth	42/100	Elevated	238
16 High Park North	42/100	Elevated	229
17 Playter Estates-Danforth	42/100	Elevated	244
18 Weston-Pelham Park	42/100	Elevated	228
19 Fort York-Liberty Village	41/100	Elevated	224
20 Mount Pleasant East	41/100	Elevated	268
21 North Riverdale	40/100	Elevated	261
22 Blake-Jones	38/100	Elevated	287
23 South Riverdale	38/100	Elevated	281
24 East End-Danforth	36/100	Elevated	302
25 Yonge-Eglinton	36/100	Elevated	318
26 Dovercourt Village	35/100	Elevated	303
27 Junction-Wallace Emerson	34/100	Elevated	332
28 Dufferin Grove	32/100	Elevated	353
29 North Toronto	31/100	Elevated	382
30 Palmerston-Little Italy	31/100	Elevated	367
31 Roncesvalles	31/100	Elevated	361
32 South Eglinton-Davisville	31/100	Elevated	383
33 South Parkdale	30/100	Elevated	387
34 Trinity-Bellwoods	26/100	Elevated	472
35 Little Portugal	25/100	Elevated	468
36 Annex	24/100	High risk	551
37 West Queen West	23/100	High risk	554
38 University	20/100	High risk	659
39 Cabbagetown-South St.James Town	19/100	High risk	677
40 Harbourfront-CityPlace	17/100	High risk	792
41 Regent Park	16/100	High risk	850
42 Bay-Cloverhill	12/100	High risk	1,222
43 Kensington-Chinatown	12/100	High risk	1,163
44 North St.James Town	12/100	High risk	1,135
45 Wellington Place	12/100	High risk	1,157
46 Moss Park	11/100	High risk	1,374
47 St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands	11/100	High risk	1,357
48 Church-Wellesley	9/100	High risk	1,551
49 Downtown Yonge East	8/100	High risk	1,976
50 Yonge-Bay Corridor	8/100	High risk	1,870

How Old Toronto compares across Toronto

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

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Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Old Toronto?

Forest Hill South has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Old Toronto, at 71/100 (moderate), from 76 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Rosedale-Moore Park (68/100) and Lawrence Park North (66/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Old Toronto has the most reported crime?

Yonge-Bay Corridor has the lowest index in Old Toronto, at 8/100, with 1,870 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 Old Toronto safe?

Across its 50 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 36/100, against 54 across Toronto. 0 rate low risk, 7 moderate, 28 elevated and 15 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 Old Toronto is the median of its 50 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.