With a projected 2025 population of about 3.2 million (the figure Toronto Police Service uses for its crime rates), Toronto is one of the most largely populated cities in the continent of North America and the most populated in Canada itself. The city is a hub for business, arts and finance, so it is little wonder that so many people are drawn to it as a tourist destination.
Surrounded by the wider Golden Horseshoe urban area, Toronto brings in an astonishing amount of tourists every year. In 2019, the city attracted a whopping 28 million visitors and made a staggering $6.7 billion. Reported crime in the Toronto region was below the national level in 2025. Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, a score that combines how much crime police recorded with how serious it was, stood at 55.0 for the Toronto census metropolitan area, which is larger than the city, against 75.0 for Canada. Inside the city, the gaps between neighbourhoods are wide. In this article, we look at what the data shows, what it can’t tell you, and how to check a specific address.
Is Toronto Safe At Night?
The figures in this article aren’t split by hour, so they can’t say how safe a street is at night. They have other limits too. Toronto Police Service (TPS) moves locations to the nearest intersection, its data has no block-level rate, and it calls this data preliminary. Not every incident reaches police either. Statistics Canada’s 2019 survey found that about 29% of victimization incidents did nationally. That figure is national and dated, but it’s a good reason not to read a low rate as no risk.
Citywide counts are moving in different directions. From January to September, by occurrence date, assaults fell from 18,338 in 2025 to 17,883 in 2026 and break-ins from 4,515 to 4,400, while auto theft rose from 5,374 to 5,623. Recent months can still change. Shootings fell from 461 in 2024 to 262 in 2025, and homicides from 85 to 45.
If you’re choosing a home, go at the hour you’d actually come home and walk the route from your transit stop. No dataset here shows you that walk.
What About The Subway At Night?
One of the easiest ways of navigating any city is to take advantage of the subway and Toronto is no exception to this rule.
The figures used here combine outside and transit records, so they don’t single out the subway or night hours, and this article can’t rate a station as safe or unsafe. If you miss the final trains at around 2 am, there is the option to take a night bus. To see your options at the hours you’d travel, use the TTC Trip Planner.
Is Downtown Toronto Safe?
Neighbourhoods in and around downtown have the highest reported assault and robbery rates in this site’s calculation from TPS open data, but those rates need a caveat. TPS divides by residents alone, and its notes say “temporary population such as the commuters and business patrons are not included.” So an area with few residents and many people passing through can show a high rate per resident, and the data can’t say how much of the figure comes from that gap.
Downtown is home to many attractions and nightlife and this means that the area is frequently filled with both tourists and locals making it bustling even after dark.
Yonge-Bay Corridor is the example to look at. Its 2025 rate of 3,661 reported assaults and robberies per 100,000 residents is 4.5 times the city’s 812, yet only 6% of those records were in apartments or houses. The reported offences are real, but the rate doesn’t measure how likely a resident is to be involved in one.
Which Parts Of Toronto Are Dangerous?
This site’s calculation from TPS data puts the highest reported assault and robbery rates per 100,000 residents, averaged over 2023 to 2025, in these five neighbourhoods. Records coded to jails and detention centres are removed. It isn’t a TPS ranking and carries no TPS endorsement.
- Yonge-Bay Corridor: 3,789
- Downtown Yonge East: 2,938
- Moss Park: 2,400
- Kensington-Chinatown: 2,348
- University: 1,850
The city’s 2025 rate on the same basis was 812. Regent Park’s was 1,031, which ranked 33rd of 158 official neighbourhoods. These numbers describe where offences were reported. A high rate isn’t a verdict on any building or on the people who live nearby, and the data doesn’t show why one area’s rate differs from another’s.
Our guide to reported crime by Toronto neighbourhood has the full method and limits. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
What Are The Safest Areas Of Toronto?
These figures show reported offences, not safety, so they can’t prove that any area is safe. In 2025, 104 of Toronto’s 158 official neighbourhoods were below the city’s rate of 812 reported assaults and robberies per 100,000 residents, on the same calculation.
Forest Hill South’s 2025 rate was 270, which ranked 155th of 158, so it isn’t the lowest. It also ranked 16th for break-ins that year.
Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills ranked 156th on the same measure in 2025, but 5th for break-ins, at 403 per 100,000 residents against 190 for the city. One list can’t stand in for the other.
Potential Dangers In Toronto, Canada 
Here are some things to keep in mind when travelling to or living in Toronto.
- Getting lost is potentially easy in Toronto since the city maps can often be confusing with North not always pointing in the assumed direction.
- Property crime follows a different map from assault. In 2025, West Humber-Clairville’s auto theft rate was 1,321 per 100,000 residents, against 225 for the city, and University’s break-in rate was 730, against 190.
- It is not uncommon to see bike couriers rushing through the streets of Toronto and travelling at eye-watering speeds means that if you do not keep an eye out for them, there is the chance of a collision.
- Official figures leave some things out. Sexual violations aren’t in TPS’s open datasets, although TPS reports 2,999 in 2025 citywide.
- Keep your valuables secure and be aware of your surroundings.
Conclusion
Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario is one of the most well-populated cities in North America and attracts a huge number of tourists seeking to explore everything it has to offer each year. Reported crime in the Toronto region was below the national level in 2025, but rates differ widely between neighbourhoods.
These figures show where offences were reported, not how safe any street or person will be. Before you choose a home, find the official neighbourhood with the City’s Find Your Neighbourhood tool, then look it up on the TPS Neighbourhood Crime Map (2025).