Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0For recorded crime, Yonge-Eglinton sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Property crime averaged 7.4 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, compared with 7.8 in the typical Toronto neighbourhood. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 66 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ scores 60.3. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Yonge-Eglinton at B− (#501 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns. What’s more, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 69.5 to 60.
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. Area behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the Toronto service area.
What’s behind Yonge-Eglinton’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: #501 of 862 in Ontario and #924 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.
Yonge-Eglinton among Toronto’s neighbourhoods
Violent crime per 1,000 a year
Property crime per 1,000 a year
Ranked from the lowest rate, Yonge-Eglinton is 111th of Toronto’s 158 neighbourhoods, past the middle.
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 |
| … | |||
| 109 | Taylor-Massey | 9.6 | 5.7 |
| 110 | Scarborough Village | 9.6 | 8.8 |
| 111 | Yonge-Eglinton | 9.8 | 7.4 |
| 112 | Cliffcrest | 9.9 | 8.7 |
| 113 | Weston-Pelham Park | 9.9 | 7.7 |
| … | |||
| 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.
Toronto’s crime, type by type
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.
Yonge-Eglinton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (69.5); 2025 was the lightest, 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 | Yonge-Eglinton | 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 Yonge-Eglinton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Yonge-Eglinton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yonge-Eglinton | 12,424 | 66 | 92.6 | B− |
| South Eglinton-Davisville | 23,380 | 66 | 92.6 | A |
| North Toronto | 16,007 | 66 | 92.6 | A− |
| Lawrence Park South | 15,018 | 66 | 92.6 | B+ |
| Mount Pleasant East | 16,373 | 66 | 92.6 | A |
| Yonge-St.Clair | 13,177 | 66 | 92.6 | A |
| Forest Hill South | 11,059 | 66 | 92.6 | B− |
6 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Yonge-Eglinton
Is Yonge-Eglinton safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 66 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Yonge-Eglinton stands, with 12 violent and 34.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Yonge-Eglinton?
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 Yonge-Eglinton?
No: the index fell 14%, from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
How much of Yonge-Eglinton’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 31%: 51% for violent crime and 19% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for 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).