District safety · Toronto · data through June 2026

How safe is York, Toronto?

York, Toronto covers 11 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 53/100 — close to the citywide median of 53. Lambton Baby Point scores highest at 64/100; Weston lowest at 42/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 11 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 8 moderate, 3 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in York, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Lambton Baby Point	64/100	Moderate	89
2 Mount Dennis	57/100	Moderate	113
3 Rockcliffe-Smythe	57/100	Moderate	128
4 Humewood-Cedarvale	55/100	Moderate	137
5 Runnymede-Bloor West Village	54/100	Moderate	148
6 Beechborough-Greenbrook	53/100	Moderate	145
7 Keelesdale-Eglinton West	52/100	Moderate	154
8 Oakwood Village	52/100	Moderate	155
9 Briar Hill-Belgravia	45/100	Elevated	201
10 Caledonia-Fairbank	44/100	Elevated	202
11 Weston	42/100	Elevated	220

How York 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 (this page)	53/100	11
Old Toronto	36/100	50

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in York, Toronto?

Lambton Baby Point has the highest SafeRoute safety index in York, Toronto, at 64/100 (moderate), from 89 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Mount Dennis (57/100) and Rockcliffe-Smythe (57/100) follow.

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

Weston has the lowest index in York, Toronto, at 42/100, with 220 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 York, Toronto safe?

Across its 11 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 53/100, against 53 across Toronto. 0 rate low risk, 8 moderate, 3 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 York, Toronto is the median of its 11 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.