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Every neighborhood receives a single score between 0 and 100, where lower is safer. The score combines nine crime categories - homicide, shooting, assault, robbery, break and enter, auto theft, theft over $5,000, theft from vehicle, and bicycle theft - so that neighborhoods of different sizes can be compared fairly. Scores fall into five bands:

• 0-15: very safe
• 16-30: safe
• 31-45: medium
• 46-60: high risk
• 61+: very high risk

The score describes relative levels of reported crime between neighborhoods. It is not a measure of any individual's personal risk.

The score is a severity-weighted sum of per-capita crime rates. For each of the nine categories:

1. Incident counts are divided by the neighborhood's population and scaled to a rate per 100,000 residents, so large and small neighborhoods are comparable.
2. That rate is normalized against a reference level for the category and capped at 100 points, so no single category - however extreme - can dominate the total.
3. The capped value is multiplied by the category's severity weight.

The weighted points across all nine categories add up to the final score. Homicide carries the highest weight (35%), followed by shooting (25%), assault (12%), robbery (8%), break and enter (6%), auto theft (5%), theft over $5,000 (4%), theft from vehicle (3%), and bicycle theft (2%).

Crime counts come from the Toronto Police Service's Neighbourhood Crime Rates Open Data dataset on the Public Safety Data Portal, retrieved through its ArcGIS REST API (dataset endpoint). Neighborhood population figures are the projections published with that dataset, prepared by Environics Analytics.

The current release covers calendar year 2025 (annual rates), and the source dataset was last updated 2026-02-02.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Ontario.

• It reflects crimes reported to the police, not all crime that occurs. The Toronto Police Service notes that the data is preliminary and may be revised, and that occurrences deemed unfounded are excluded.
• Neighborhood safety depends on many factors beyond reported crime statistics, such as lighting, traffic, and community resources. The score deliberately measures only one input.
• It is not advice. The score is for informational purposes only and should not be used as the sole factor in housing, investment, or any other decision. Always verify with official sources.

Toronto Crime Score is built and maintained by webuildstuff.io. It is not an official Toronto Police Service product, and the police service does not review or endorse the scores derived from its data.

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