Night-time safety · Toronto · data through June 2026

Is Toronto safe at night?

53% of Toronto's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 22% of them fall between midnight and 6am. That share swings from 19% to 79% depending on which neighbourhood you are in — which is the whole point: the question worth asking is not whether Toronto is safe after dark, but where and by which route.

These figures describe when reported incidents happen, not how dangerous a street is. Somewhere with a night-time crowd reports more after dark because more people are there — that is a fact about footfall as much as about risk, and it is why the tables below show the count and the share side by side.

Most reported reported incidents after dark

Neighbourhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 Downtown Yonge East	830	48%	8/100
2 Yonge-Bay Corridor	778	47%	8/100
3 Church-Wellesley	752	52%	9/100
4 Wellington Place	627	61%	13/100
5 Moss Park	608	50%	11/100
6 Bay-Cloverhill	594	53%	12/100
7 St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands	559	48%	11/100
8 North St.James Town	547	52%	12/100
9 Kensington-Chinatown	531	53%	13/100
10 Harbourfront-CityPlace	479	65%	17/100
11 Regent Park	398	53%	17/100
12 Cabbagetown-South St.James Town	319	52%	19/100
13 West Queen West	293	61%	24/100
14 University	292	50%	20/100
15 Annex	260	51%	23/100
16 Taylor-Massey	238	56%	27/100
17 Little Portugal	233	55%	26/100
18 Trinity-Bellwoods	229	55%	27/100
19 North Toronto	200	60%	32/100
20 South Eglinton-Davisville	188	56%	31/100
21 Palmerston-Little Italy	182	54%	31/100
22 South Parkdale	173	51%	30/100
23 Oakridge	171	61%	37/100
24 Yonge-Eglinton	165	59%	36/100
25 Roncesvalles	165	54%	33/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Toronto median of 54%. A high share is not a high total — a quiet neighbourhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night sits near the top — so the count is shown beside it.

Neighbourhood	Night share	Incidents	Index
Edenbridge-Humber Valley	79%	32	85/100
Lawrence Park North	71%	101	63/100
Morningside Heights	70%	79	69/100
Kingsway South	68%	79	70/100
Victoria Village	67%	69	73/100
Birchcliffe-Cliffside	65%	101	62/100
Lawrence Park South	65%	108	61/100
East Willowdale	65%	86	67/100
Harbourfront-CityPlace	65%	742	17/100
Lambton Baby Point	64%	89	64/100
New Toronto	63%	144	53/100
Bedford Park-Nortown	63%	99	68/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighbourhood	Night share	Incidents
Mimico-Queensway	19%	721
Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills	35%	70
Hillcrest Village	36%	51
Guildwood	36%	45
Agincourt North	38%	117
Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview	41%	87
Newtonbrook East	43%	100
Clanton Park	44%	97

Common questions

Is Toronto safe to walk at night?

53% of Toronto's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 22% fall in the small hours between midnight and 6am. That is a description of when incidents are reported, not a verdict on the city: the figure varies far more between neighbourhoods than it does between cities, from 19% to 79% here. The useful question is which neighbourhood and which route, not whether a whole city is safe.

Which neighbourhood in Toronto has the most reported crime at night?

Downtown Yonge East, with roughly 830 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 48% of its total. Somewhere busy usually tops this list because more people are out, so read it alongside the daytime picture on its own page rather than on its own.

Which neighbourhood changes most after dark?

Edenbridge-Humber Valley is the most night-concentrated in Toronto: 79% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Toronto median of 54%. A high share does not mean a high total — a quiet neighbourhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night will rank high here — which is why the table shows the count beside it.

How does SafeRoute use this at night?

The app scores each walking route against the same Toronto Police data, and can weight it toward the time you are actually walking rather than a flat all-day average. It also shows how much of each route runs on lit streets, and lets you share a walk and check in on arrival.

Methodology

Every incident reported to the Toronto Police Service carries an occurrence time, which is bucketed into daytime (6am–6pm), evening (6pm–midnight) and the small hours (midnight–6am), split weekday against weekend, and weighted by severity so violence counts for more than shoplifting. A neighbourhood's night share is the weighted proportion falling between 6pm and 6am; its night count is that share applied to its total. The city-wide chart weights each neighbourhood by its own volume, so a busy centre is not averaged against a quiet suburb as though they were the same size.

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.