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Property Crime Statistics: The Top 20 Toronto Neighbourhoods
property crime statistics While Toronto is generally a safe city, crime does unfortunately occur. Property crime is one of the most common crimes and it can affect almost anyone at any time. Stay informed with these property crime statistics.

The Toronto Star recently published a list of property crime by area.

Property crime statistics

The top 20 Toronto neighbourhoods with the most property crime are:
  • Southwest Parkdale
  • Greenwood/Gerrard/railway
  • Steeles/Jane/Finch/Gosford
  • Overlea Blvd/Thorncliffe Park
  • Queen/Dundas/Spadina/Bathurst
  • Northwest of Victoria Park/Danforth
  • Lawrence/McCowan/Brimley/401
  • Winchester/Parliament/DVP/Bloor
  • Southwest of Lawrence/Markham Rd
  • Carlton/Dundas/Jarvis/Parliament
  • Bloor/Dovercourt/College/Brock
  • Albion/Kipling/Martin Grove/Mt Olive
  • Hampton/Danforth/Bain/Pape
  • Lake Shore/23rd St/lake/13th St
  • Winchester/Parliament/DVP/Gerrard
  • Queen/Dundas/Jarvis/Parliament
  • Sheppard/Highbury/Jane/401
  • Bloor/Roncesvalles/Sorauren/Wright
  • Finch/Bathurst/cemetery/Senlac
  • Danforth between Main and Woodbine
The crimes that were tracked in those statistics include: Breaking and entering, motor vehicle or bicycle theft, possession of stolen property, theft, shoplifting and mischief against property or causing property damage.

What these statistics show us is that, unfortunately, property crime take place in a variety of areas all across the city. It’s not confined to one neighbourhood and it’s not easy to determine a pattern between areas with a high level of property crime.

You need to protect yourself against property crime regardless of where you live in Toronto.

As per Toronto Star bellow are listed the high burglary rates:

Here are the top 20: 1 University 2 Bay Street Corridor 3 Kensington-Chinatown 4 Moss Park 5 Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills 6 East End-Danforth 7 Casa Loma 8 York University Heights 9 Annex 10 Church-Yonge Corridor 11 Waterfront Communities-The Island 12 Rosedale-Moore Park 13 Woodbine Corridor 14 Clairlea-Birchmount 15 West Humber-Clairville 16 South Riverdale 17 Little Portugal 18 Roncesvalles 19 The Beaches 20 Forest Hill South

Security cameras and appropriate home alarm systems and commercial alarm systems can go a long way to protecting your property and ensuring that you do not become a victim of property crime. Not only will these security systems deter criminals from attempting to break into or damage your property, but they will also make it easier for the authorities to catch and identify the criminals after the fact.

For more information on Toronto property crime statistics, please visit the Neighbourhood Crime Report section of this security blog.
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Property Crime in America Costs Over $17 Billion Per Year

Property crime statistics by FBI

According to statistics released by the FBI, property crime cost an estimated $17.2 billion dollars in losses in 2008. The statistics, released as part of the FBI’s Crime In The United States publication, show the costly damage of property crime.

Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. There were approximately 9,767,915 property crimes in the United States in 2008. There was, however, a 5.3 percent drop in this type of crime between 2004 and 2008.

Burglary accounted for 22.7 percent of all property crime. There were an estimated 2,222,196 burglaries in 2008, up 2 percent from 2007.

There were 3.6 percent more burglaries in 2008 than in 2004 and 5.8 percent more than in 1999. 61.2 percent of all burglaries in 2008 involved forcible entry.

Far more residential properties were broken into than commercial properties. 70.3 percent of all burglaries were residential.
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