District safety · Toronto · data through September 2026

How safe is Scarborough, Toronto?

Scarborough, Toronto covers 30 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 59/100 — above the citywide median of 54, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Toronto. Centennial Scarborough scores highest at 81/100; Oakridge lowest at 35/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 5 of 30 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 17 moderate, 8 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Scarborough, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Centennial Scarborough	81/100	Low risk	45
2 Guildwood	81/100	Low risk	43
3 Morningside	79/100	Low risk	51
4 West Rouge	79/100	Low risk	50
5 Milliken	76/100	Low risk	72
6 Agincourt South-Malvern West	72/100	Moderate	83
7 Steeles	72/100	Moderate	78
8 Highland Creek	70/100	Moderate	82
9 Morningside Heights	69/100	Moderate	92
10 Bendale-Glen Andrew	64/100	Moderate	105
11 Agincourt North	63/100	Moderate	117
12 Wexford/Maryvale	63/100	Moderate	112
13 Birchcliffe-Cliffside	60/100	Moderate	117
14 Cliffcrest	60/100	Moderate	124
15 Clairlea-Birchmount	59/100	Moderate	129
16 Dorset Park	59/100	Moderate	140
17 East L'Amoreaux	59/100	Moderate	148
18 Malvern West	59/100	Moderate	140
19 Bendale South	54/100	Moderate	166
20 L'Amoreaux West	54/100	Moderate	164
21 Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan	54/100	Moderate	156
22 Malvern East	53/100	Moderate	163
23 Woburn North	49/100	Elevated	196
24 Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn	48/100	Elevated	195
25 Ionview	48/100	Elevated	175
26 Scarborough Village	48/100	Elevated	204
27 Eglinton East	42/100	Elevated	248
28 West Hill	42/100	Elevated	213
29 Kennedy Park	40/100	Elevated	251
30 Oakridge	35/100	Elevated	318

How Scarborough compares across Toronto

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

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Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Scarborough, Toronto?

Centennial Scarborough has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Scarborough, Toronto, at 81/100 (low risk), from 45 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Guildwood (81/100) and Morningside (79/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Scarborough, Toronto has the most reported crime?

Oakridge has the lowest index in Scarborough, Toronto, at 35/100, with 318 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 Scarborough, Toronto safe?

Across its 30 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 59/100, against 54 across Toronto. 5 rate low risk, 17 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 Scarborough, Toronto is the median of its 30 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.