Night-time safety · Toronto · data through September 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 20% to 74% 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 incidents after dark

Neighbourhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 Downtown Yonge East	967	49%	8/100
2 Yonge-Bay Corridor	877	47%	8/100
3 Church-Wellesley	805	52%	9/100
4 Moss Park	712	52%	11/100
5 Wellington Place	702	61%	12/100
6 St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands	661	49%	11/100
7 Bay-Cloverhill	626	51%	12/100
8 Kensington-Chinatown	619	53%	12/100
9 North St.James Town	596	53%	12/100
10 Harbourfront-CityPlace	521	66%	17/100
11 Regent Park	455	54%	16/100
12 Cabbagetown-South St.James Town	360	53%	19/100
13 West Queen West	338	61%	23/100
14 University	329	50%	20/100
15 Annex	283	51%	24/100
16 Taylor-Massey	269	56%	26/100
17 Trinity-Bellwoods	256	54%	26/100
18 Little Portugal	253	54%	25/100
19 North Toronto	241	63%	31/100
20 South Eglinton-Davisville	226	59%	31/100
21 South Parkdale	209	54%	30/100
22 Roncesvalles	208	58%	31/100
23 Palmerston-Little Italy	201	55%	31/100
24 Oakridge	191	60%	35/100
25 Yonge-Eglinton	188	59%	36/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Toronto median of 55%. 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	74%	37	82/100
Lawrence Park North	69%	103	66/100
Kingsway South	67%	88	70/100
Lambton Baby Point	66%	102	63/100
Victoria Village	66%	82	72/100
Alderwood	66%	60	76/100
Fort York-Liberty Village	66%	224	41/100
Harbourfront-CityPlace	66%	792	17/100
Humber Summit	66%	75	75/100
Rustic	65%	132	58/100
Willowdale West	65%	60	75/100
Humber Bay Shores	64%	214	46/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighbourhood	Night share	Incidents
Mimico-Queensway	20%	776
Danforth	42%	238
Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills	42%	82
Newtonbrook East	43%	109
Agincourt North	43%	117
Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview	44%	112
Hillcrest Village	44%	53
Danforth East York	44%	217

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 20% to 74% 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 967 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 49% 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: 74% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Toronto median of 55%. 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.

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.