Is Dufferin Grove safe?
For break-ins, Dufferin Grove is above the Toronto average. It had 4.2 residential break-ins per 1,000 households in 2025, against 3.0 across the city, which ranks #32 of 158 neighbourhoods per household. In total, 22 were reported: 6 at houses and 16 at apartments.
This page looks at break-ins at homes only, not other kinds of crime.
reported in 2025, 5 more than the 17 in 2024.
Where Dufferin Grove sits among all 158
The orange bar is Dufferin Grove. 58% of Toronto neighbourhoods had fewer reported break-ins, and 6 had the same number. Hover or tap to compare.
Houses and apartments
2025 compared with 2024
These are counts, not rates. A larger or denser neighbourhood has more homes, so a higher count does not automatically mean each household is at higher risk. Small counts also move around from year to year, and a change of a few incidents is normal noise. With 22 incidents, Dufferin Grove sits above the middle of the pack: the median Toronto neighbourhood had 18.5.
When break-ins are recorded
The citywide pattern in 2025, not specific to Dufferin Grove. Many times are estimates, because people often find out after they get home.
Adjusted for size
Dufferin Grove has about 5,270 households. That works out to 4.2 break-ins per 1,000 households in 2025, compared with 3.0 across Toronto.
Households are from the 2021 Census. See all 158 ranked per household.
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What to do about it
Most reported break-ins here were at apartments, so focus on your own door and the ways into the building.
- Start with your door. A video doorbell or door-facing camera shows who comes to your suite door and records activity there.
- Check your rules first. If you rent or live in a condo, read your lease or building rules before mounting anything, and point cameras only at your own door or space.
- Look at other access points. Balcony doors, ground-floor windows and shared entrances are worth a look.
A camera doesn't stop a break-in by itself. It lets you see what is happening and keeps a recording.
Neighbourhoods with similar counts
About this data
Source. Toronto Police Service, Major Crime Indicators open data, published under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
What is counted. Break and enter (B&E) incidents at houses and apartments, by the year they occurred, for 2025 and 2024. The data is preliminary and may be revised, and incident locations are offset to the nearest intersection, so neighbourhood counts are approximate. Police advise not comparing these figures with other crime data sources.
How to read it. Rankings, the median and percentages are our own calculations from this data. Households are from the 2021 Census. MkaeSense is not affiliated with Toronto Police Service, and this is general information, not a prediction for any home or street.