District safety · Toronto · data through June 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 53, so more is reported around a typical neighbourhood here than across Toronto. Forest Hill South scores highest at 69/100; 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, 8 moderate, 27 elevated and 15 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Old Toronto, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Forest Hill South	69/100	Moderate	76
2 Rosedale-Moore Park	67/100	Moderate	91
3 Lawrence Park North	63/100	Moderate	101
4 High Park-Swansea	62/100	Moderate	98
5 Lawrence Park South	61/100	Moderate	108
6 Forest Hill North	54/100	Moderate	134
7 The Beaches	52/100	Moderate	151
8 Yonge-St.Clair	51/100	Moderate	160
9 Junction Area	47/100	Elevated	183
10 Casa Loma	45/100	Elevated	196
11 Corso Italia-Davenport	45/100	Elevated	197
12 Greenwood-Coxwell	45/100	Elevated	186
13 Woodbine Corridor	45/100	Elevated	190
14 Fort York-Liberty Village	44/100	Elevated	185
15 Weston-Pelham Park	43/100	Elevated	200
16 High Park North	42/100	Elevated	214
17 Mount Pleasant East	42/100	Elevated	229
18 Wychwood	42/100	Elevated	226
19 Playter Estates-Danforth	40/100	Elevated	230
20 Danforth	39/100	Elevated	238
21 North Riverdale	39/100	Elevated	240
22 South Riverdale	39/100	Elevated	231
23 East End-Danforth	38/100	Elevated	265
24 Blake-Jones	36/100	Elevated	275
25 Yonge-Eglinton	36/100	Elevated	280
26 Dovercourt Village	35/100	Elevated	281
27 Junction-Wallace Emerson	34/100	Elevated	290
28 Roncesvalles	33/100	Elevated	305
29 North Toronto	32/100	Elevated	330
30 Dufferin Grove	31/100	Elevated	326
31 Palmerston-Little Italy	31/100	Elevated	340
32 South Eglinton-Davisville	31/100	Elevated	335
33 South Parkdale	30/100	Elevated	338
34 Trinity-Bellwoods	27/100	Elevated	418
35 Little Portugal	26/100	Elevated	422
36 West Queen West	24/100	High risk	482
37 Annex	23/100	High risk	510
38 University	20/100	High risk	589
39 Cabbagetown-South St.James Town	19/100	High risk	615
40 Harbourfront-CityPlace	17/100	High risk	742
41 Regent Park	17/100	High risk	751
42 Kensington-Chinatown	13/100	High risk	998
43 Wellington Place	13/100	High risk	1,035
44 Bay-Cloverhill	12/100	High risk	1,130
45 North St.James Town	12/100	High risk	1,051
46 Moss Park	11/100	High risk	1,212
47 St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands	11/100	High risk	1,159
48 Church-Wellesley	9/100	High risk	1,459
49 Downtown Yonge East	8/100	High risk	1,723
50 Yonge-Bay Corridor	8/100	High risk	1,644

How Old Toronto compares across Toronto

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

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Old Toronto?

Forest Hill South has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Old Toronto, at 69/100 (moderate), from 76 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Rosedale-Moore Park (67/100) and Lawrence Park North (63/100) 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 1,644 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 53 across Toronto. 0 rate low risk, 8 moderate, 27 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.