Is Flemingdon Park Safe? What Toronto's Crime Data Actually Shows

Data freshness: Toronto Police Service community-level crime statistics through year-end 2025, read from the PickYourPlace database in early August 2026. Population, tenure, and age come from the Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Every figure below comes from those sources. See the note at the end for what they do and don't cover.

If you are moving within Toronto, or into it from elsewhere in Ontario, Flemingdon Park is the kind of east-end community that lands early on a first-time buyer's shortlist: central enough to matter, priced below the core, and carrying a reputation you have probably read three contradictory takes on. Safety is usually the first question, and the one anecdote answers worst.

So here is the more useful version of the question: what does the actual crime data show for Flemingdon Park, and how should you read it before you decide anything?

A safety score is a door, not a verdict

PickYourPlace scores every Toronto community for safety on a 0-to-100 scale, a weighted blend of reported crime with factors like traffic and proximity to emergency services, each ranked against the rest of the city. Flemingdon Park's safety score is 47. On its own, that number invites a quick verdict.

Treat it as a door instead. Read a second figure beside it: for total crime volume, Flemingdon Park sits in the 31st percentile, which means most Toronto communities report more incidents relative to their size, not fewer. A community with below-median crime volume can still land a middling composite score, because that composite weighs more than counts. The gap between those two numbers is the first sign that a single score is a place to start, not a conclusion. It tells you where to look next: which categories, trending which way.

What Flemingdon Park's 2025 numbers show

The right unit for reading the category figures below is the rate per 1,000 residents, not the raw count. A rate accounts for how many people live in the community and lets you compare Flemingdon Park to anywhere else in the city on the same footing, which a headline tally never does.

Across all categories, reported crime in Flemingdon Park rose 3.2% year over year. That is a modest move, not the sharp swing in either direction that a reputation-based take tends to assume. More to the point, an all-crime figure averages categories that are moving independently, and the average hides which risks are actually rising.

The category mix changes the read

A community with a lot of car break-ins is a different lived experience than one with a lot of assaults, even at a similar overall level. Flemingdon Park's three largest categories pull in different directions:

• Assault: 157 incidents, 6.0 per 1,000, down 0.8% year over year. This is by far the largest category and the one that most shapes how a place feels day to day. It is essentially flat, neither improving nor worsening.
• Auto theft: 62 incidents, 2.4 per 1,000, up 18.3%. The one category rising meaningfully. Auto theft has been a Greater Toronto Area story for several years, so a local increase tracks a regional pattern rather than something specific to this community.
• Theft from motor vehicle: 53 incidents, 2.0 per 1,000, down 28.0%. The sharpest mover, and it is falling. If you park on the street, this is the risk the data points at most directly, and it is largely the kind you can plan around through where and how you park.

Read together, those three explain why a single 3.2% is thin information. The category that most affects daily life is flat, the sharpest decline is in property crime, and the clearest increase follows a regional auto-theft trend. "Is it safe" resolves into several different questions, and the data answers them separately.

Safety is one lens of several

Safety rarely decides a purchase on its own. Flemingdon Park skews toward renters, at 57.3% renter against 42.4% owner by the 2021 Census, with a median age of 37 and an average household of 2.8 people. Those facts sit alongside the crime picture, not after it.

This is where the score becomes an actual analysis. When you have a specific Flemingdon Park address in mind, an Analyze report pulls the safety breakdown together with property value, accessibility, and census data for that address, so safety reads next to the other things the decision turns on. If you are weighing it against another community, a Compare report puts two shortlisted areas side by side on the same measures. To see how the crime categories, trends, and emergency-service factors become a score in the first place, read how the safety data is built.

From a score to a decision

A score is a fast way to know where a community stands and where to look next. It is not the decision. You can open the safety lens for Flemingdon Park to see the same category figures used here, and run a full report on the community during a 7-day free trial, email only and no credit card, before deciding whether the data supports the move. Pricing covers what continues past the trial.

The data will not make the call for you, and it should not. What it does is replace a contradictory thread of opinions with the actual numbers, their direction, and their limits.

What the data doesn't capture

Reported crime is a strong signal, but it is one signal. It does not include unreported incidents, a known gap for low-level theft and harassment. It flattens time-of-day and block-level variation into an annual community total, so a quieter street and a busier one share a score. And per-1,000 rates use residential population, which reads differently for a community like Flemingdon Park that draws significant daytime and through traffic around its employment and transit corridors. Numbers describe a place. They do not decide it for you.