How to Check Crime Near Any Toronto Address (Free, Using Police Data)
Whether you are buying a home, signing a lease, or just curious about your street, the question is the same: how much crime actually happens around this address? The good news is you do not need to rely on rumours, Facebook groups, or a realtor's reassurance. Toronto Police Service publishes its reported-crime data openly, and you can check any address in the city in about ten seconds.
Step 1: Search the address
Go to the Toronto crime map and type the address into the search box. You will get the exact property marked on a map, along with every major crime reported within a radius you choose - 250 m for just your block, up to 2 km for the wider area - over the last 12 months.
Step 2: Read the Safety Score
Every search returns a Safety Score from 1 to 100. Higher means less reported crime. A score of 70 is typical for Toronto, so anything above that is quieter than the typical neighbourhood and anything below is busier. You get three numbers:
- Property score - the address itself, blending the immediate street with the surrounding neighbourhood so one noisy corner does not distort it.
- Street score - reported incidents within your chosen radius, weighted by severity. A homicide counts far more than a stolen bike.
- Neighbourhood score - the official neighbourhood's score, built from annual police crime rates going back to 2014.
The full formula is public on our methodology page.
Step 3: Look at the trend, not just the total
A single number can mislead. An area with 40 reports last year sounds bad until you learn it had 80 two years ago. Every address page includes a year-by-year chart back to 2014, so you can see whether crime around that exact spot is rising, falling, or flat. Neighbourhood pages show the same thing at the community level, including how the Safety Score has moved over a decade.
Step 4: Check what kind of crime it is
Fifty bike thefts and fifty assaults are very different problems. The incident table under the map lists each report with its category, date, and distance from your address, and you can filter by crime type. Areas near transit stations and commercial strips often rank high on theft but low on violent crime - context that a single ranking number hides.
What the data can and cannot tell you
A few honest caveats. The data covers reported crime only - incidents nobody reports do not appear. Police also offset exact locations to the nearest intersection to protect victim privacy, so pins are approximate, not exact doorsteps. And busy destinations naturally generate more reports simply because more people pass through them. Treat the numbers as one input to your decision, alongside visiting the street at different times of day.
Keep watching an address
If you want to stay informed after you search - say, you put in an offer on a house - you can get email alerts for any address: a daily or weekly digest of new reports nearby, plus a notification if the Safety Score changes. It is free, and you can unsubscribe with one click.