District safety · Toronto · data through June 2026

How safe is Scarborough, Toronto?

Scarborough, Toronto covers 30 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 61/100 — above the citywide median of 53, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Toronto. West Rouge scores highest at 81/100; Oakridge lowest at 37/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 4 of 30 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 20 moderate, 6 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Scarborough, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 West Rouge	81/100	Low risk	39
2 Guildwood	80/100	Low risk	45
3 Centennial Scarborough	79/100	Low risk	46
4 Morningside	78/100	Low risk	46
5 Milliken	74/100	Moderate	70
6 Agincourt South-Malvern West	71/100	Moderate	75
7 Morningside Heights	69/100	Moderate	79
8 Steeles	69/100	Moderate	79
9 Highland Creek	68/100	Moderate	81
10 Bendale-Glen Andrew	64/100	Moderate	94
11 Wexford/Maryvale	63/100	Moderate	101
12 Birchcliffe-Cliffside	62/100	Moderate	101
13 Dorset Park	62/100	Moderate	115
14 Agincourt North	61/100	Moderate	117
15 Cliffcrest	61/100	Moderate	107
16 Clairlea-Birchmount	57/100	Moderate	120
17 East L'Amoreaux	57/100	Moderate	139
18 Malvern West	56/100	Moderate	135
19 Malvern East	55/100	Moderate	128
20 Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan	54/100	Moderate	145
21 Bendale South	53/100	Moderate	157
22 L'Amoreaux West	52/100	Moderate	161
23 Ionview	50/100	Moderate	156
24 Scarborough Village	50/100	Moderate	174
25 Woburn North	48/100	Elevated	180
26 Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn	47/100	Elevated	175
27 West Hill	45/100	Elevated	181
28 Eglinton East	43/100	Elevated	218
29 Kennedy Park	41/100	Elevated	233
30 Oakridge	37/100	Elevated	280

How Scarborough compares across Toronto

Districts (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Etobicoke	67/100	22
North York	65/100	37
Scarborough (this page)	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 Scarborough, Toronto?

West Rouge has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Scarborough, Toronto, at 81/100 (low risk), from 39 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Guildwood (80/100) and Centennial Scarborough (79/100) follow.

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

Oakridge has the lowest index in Scarborough, Toronto, at 37/100, with 280 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 61/100, against 53 across Toronto. 4 rate low risk, 20 moderate, 6 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.