Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Steeles Corners than in 66% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 54.6 to 50.3. What’s more, its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crime the police covering Steeles Corners reported over 2023 to 2025: #295 of 862 in Ontario. Year on year, 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Violence accounts for an index of 67.4 and other offences for 47.4, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Crime severity and crime rate: one figure for all of the York Region service area.
Steeles Corners: B+ for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Steeles Corners can differ a long way from its city’s average.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
Its place: #295 of 862 in Ontario and #570 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
York Region’s crime, type by type
These are York Region’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, York Region runs highest on motor vehicle theft (2.6 per 1,000 against 1.7). Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 14.7 | 0.01 | 80% |
| Sexual violations against children | 128.7 | 0.1 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 153.7 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 97.7 | 0.08 | 38% |
| Robbery | 617.3 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 91.7 | 0.07 | 65% |
| Other violent violations | 290.7 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,306 | 1.8 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 291 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3,372.3 | 2.6 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 732.7 | 0.6 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 10,573 | 8.3 | 25% |
| Mischief | 2,944 | 2.3 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 266.3 | 0.2 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 4,033.3 | 3.1 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 552.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Drug violations | 636 | 0.5 | 91% |
| Impaired driving | 1,207.3 | 0.9 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3,411.7 | 2.7 | 8% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Steeles Corners, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 54.6, against a low of 50.3 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Steeles Corners | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.3 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 53.6 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Steeles Corners, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Steeles Corners
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steeles Corners | 9,468 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Thornhill | 17,940 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Newtonbrook East | 15,996 | 66 | 92.6 | B |
| Langstaff | 8,147 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Thornlea | 20,872 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Newtonbrook West | 23,978 | 66 | 92.6 | C |
| Bayview Woods-Steeles | 12,499 | 66 | 92.6 | A− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Steeles Corners. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The whole city’s numbers. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Steeles Corners is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Steeles Corners
Is Steeles Corners safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Steeles Corners comes to 52.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the median is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Steeles Corners?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (8.3 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 5.3, and assault, at 4.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Steeles Corners?
Down 8%: 54.6 in 2023, 50.3 in 2025.
How much of Steeles Corners’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 35% of crime (53% of violent crime, 25% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).