Scarborough Junction Crime Report

Scarborough Junction (also known as Kennedy Park) is a Toronto neighbourhood that is located in the Scarborough region of the city. The neighbourhood boundaries are Birchmount Road in the west, Brimley Road in the east, Eglinton Avenue in the north and St. Clair Avenue in the south. The neighbourhood gets its name from the railway tracks that run through the area alongside Danforth Road. It received this name in 1873 when a post office using this name was opened near Kennedy Road and St. Clair Avenue. The neighbourhood is made up of mostly single-family homes and Pine Hills Cemetary takes up a significant portion of the neighbourhood’s area. The amount of parkland in this region is the reason it is sometimes known as “Kennedy Park.”

Scarborough Junction Crime Rates

In the area bordered by Eglinton Avenue in the north, Birchmount Road in the west, Kennedy Road in the east and the ravine south of Chelwood Road and Frimette Court in the south, there is an average of 9.5 crimes against people per 1000 living and working in the region. There is an average of 10.06 crimes against property per 1000. South of this region to St. Clair Avenue, still between Kennedy Road and Birchmount Road, there is an average of 15.89 crimes against people and 20.38 crimes against property. The average crime rates are the same in the area bordered by Eglinton Avenue, Kennedy Road, Corvette Avenue and the public transit tracks heading into Kennedy Station. The region directly to the west across to Brimley Road and bordered by the train tracks leading to Kennedy Station, Danforth Road (until Falmouth Avenue) and the train tracks east of Glenshepard Drive (not including Glenshepard Park) has an average of 10.94 crimes against people per 1000 and 23.49 crimes against property. The area bordered by Corvette Avenue in the north,  St. Clair Avenue in the south, Kennedy Road in the west and Midland Avenue in the east, there is an average of 7.08 crimes against people and 17.75 crimes against property. In the region bordered by Danforth Road in the north, the train tracks in the south, Midland Avenue in the west and Glenshepard Drive in the east (including Glenshepard Park) there is an average of 11.27 crimes against people and 16.91 crimes against property. South of the train tracks to St. Clair Avenue, there is an average of 12.24 crimes against people and 17.31 crimes against property.

Scarborough Junction Crime

In February 2011 a man was stabbed in the area. The victim walked home before calling police. From 680 News:

Local police are investigating a stabbing that took place in Scarborough. Police are having a hard time find the crime scene. The victim called police from his home on Danforth Road shortly before 10 p.m. Friday night. Police said he was actually stabbed somewhere else in the Brimley Road and Eglinton Avenue area.

In September 2011, a man was shot and killed near Birchmount Road and Danforth Road. From CBC News:

Toronto police are investigating after a man was shot and killed early Saturday morning near Birchmount Road and Danforth Road. The shooting took place at about 4 a.m., according to police. The victim was taken to hospital but died of his injuries.

In July 2010, a man died after being stabbed in the Scarborough Junction neighbourhood. From CTV:

A man in his thirties is dead after he was stabbed in the city’s east end early Wednesday morning. Police say the victim was stabbed at Magnolia Avenue at Danforth Road and drove himself to a gas station across the street from Scarborough General Hospital just before 4 a.m.

Another man was stabbed in the area in April 2010. This time the stabbing occurred near Birchmount Road and St. Clair Avenue. From Inside Toronto:

A man is recovering after being stabbed in the abdomen on Birchmount Road Friday, April 30, afternoon. The violence occurred north of St. Clair Avenue at about 3 p.m. The victim was in stable condition when taken by ambulance to St. Michael’s Hospital.

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