District safety · Toronto · data through September 2026

How safe is York, Toronto?

York, Toronto covers 11 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Toronto index. Its median safety index is 55/100 — close to the citywide median of 54. Lambton Baby Point scores highest at 63/100; Weston lowest at 39/100.

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	63/100	Moderate	102
2 Rockcliffe-Smythe	57/100	Moderate	144
3 Runnymede-Bloor West Village	56/100	Moderate	146
4 Humewood-Cedarvale	55/100	Moderate	152
5 Mount Dennis	55/100	Moderate	134
6 Oakwood Village	55/100	Moderate	155
7 Beechborough-Greenbrook	52/100	Moderate	172
8 Keelesdale-Eglinton West	50/100	Moderate	185
9 Caledonia-Fairbank	45/100	Elevated	224
10 Briar Hill-Belgravia	44/100	Elevated	230
11 Weston	39/100	Elevated	264

How York 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 (this page)	55/100	11
Old Toronto	36/100	50

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Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in York, Toronto?

Lambton Baby Point has the highest SafeRoute safety index in York, Toronto, at 63/100 (moderate), from 102 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Rockcliffe-Smythe (57/100) and Runnymede-Bloor West Village (56/100) follow.

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

Weston has the lowest index in York, Toronto, at 39/100, with 264 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 55/100, against 54 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.