Photo: Fabian Roudra Baroi · CC BY-SA 4.0Taylor-Massey records less crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
The rate of property crime is 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, compared with 7.8 in the typical Toronto neighbourhood. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025. Graded on crime the police covering Taylor-Massey reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B+ for safety: #358 of 862 in Ontario. Even so, a Crime Severity Index of 66, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 Toronto service area.
What’s behind Taylor-Massey’s grade
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: #358 of 862 in Ontario and #639 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.
How Taylor-Massey compares across Toronto
Violent crime per 1,000 a year
Property crime per 1,000 a year
Of 158 Toronto neighbourhoods, Taylor-Massey comes 109th counting from the lowest rate: above the typical one.
Toronto’s neighbourhoods, lowest rate first
| # | Neighbourhood | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaside-Bennington | 2.1 | 9.4 |
| 2 | Steeles | 2.5 | 4.3 |
| 3 | Lawrence Park South | 2.5 | 9.3 |
| 4 | Yonge-St.Clair | 3 | 6.4 |
| 5 | Lawrence Park North | 3.2 | 7.6 |
| … | |||
| 107 | Elms-Old Rexdale | 9.4 | 10 |
| 108 | Rexdale-Kipling | 9.5 | 9.9 |
| 109 | Taylor-Massey | 9.6 | 5.7 |
| 110 | Scarborough Village | 9.6 | 8.8 |
| 111 | Yonge-Eglinton | 9.8 | 7.4 |
| … | |||
| 154 | Kensington-Chinatown | 23.8 | 23.8 |
| 155 | Moss Park | 24.2 | 12.6 |
| 156 | Downtown Yonge East | 29.6 | 18.4 |
| 157 | Mimico-Queensway | 34.7 | 7.6 |
| 158 | Yonge-Bay Corridor | 38.2 | 27.5 |
Toronto Police Service, Neighbourhood Crime Rates (City of Toronto Open Data, OGL-Toronto), 2023–2025: assault, robbery, homicide and shootings; break and enter, auto theft, theft from vehicles, theft over $5,000 and bicycle theft, per 1,000 residents by TPS’s own counts.
Toronto’s own neighbourhood figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Which crimes make up Toronto’s figures
These are Toronto’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Toronto runs highest on robbery (0.8 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (3.3 per 1,000 against 1.7) and theft under $5,000 (19.5 per 1,000 against 11.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 65 | 0.02 | 75% |
| Sexual violations against children | 214 | 0.07 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 890.7 | 0.3 | 85% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 514.3 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Robbery | 2,723.3 | 0.8 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 202.7 | 0.06 | 83% |
| Other violent violations | 454.7 | 0.1 | 42% |
| Breaking and entering | 6,580.3 | 2 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 679.3 | 0.2 | 84% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10,504.7 | 3.3 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,603.7 | 0.5 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 62,883 | 19.5 | 13% |
| Mischief | 11,965.3 | 3.7 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 1,117 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 10,530.3 | 3.3 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1,117 | 0.3 | 55% |
| Drug violations | 1,132.7 | 0.4 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 1,592.3 | 0.5 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 167 | 0.05 | 23% |
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.
Taylor-Massey, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (69.5); the low point came in 2025, at 60. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Taylor-Massey | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 68.6 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 69.5 | 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 Taylor-Massey, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Taylor-Massey
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor-Massey | 15,050 | 66 | 92.6 | B+ |
| Oakridge | 13,913 | 66 | 92.6 | C+ |
| O'Connor-Parkview | 18,746 | 66 | 92.6 | B+ |
| Woodbine-Lumsden | 7,928 | 66 | 92.6 | A− |
| East End-Danforth | 22,055 | 66 | 92.6 | B− |
| Birchcliffe-Cliffside | 23,115 | 66 | 92.6 | B |
| Woodbine Corridor | 12,283 | 66 | 92.6 | B+ |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Taylor-Massey
Is Taylor-Massey safe?
Its police recorded 12 violent incidents and 34.4 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Taylor-Massey a Crime Severity Index of 66. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Taylor-Massey?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 19.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 6.6 and fraud at 5.1.
Is crime going up in Taylor-Massey?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 14%, to 60 from 69.5.
How much of Taylor-Massey’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 31% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 51% of violent crime and 19% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole 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) · Toronto Police Service, Neighbourhood Crime Rates (OGL-Toronto) · 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).