Kensington-Chinatown.
Population 18,120 (2021 Census, 25% sample data). One of 158 official Toronto neighbourhood boundaries used for this dashboard. Rates for every year use this 2021 denominator; see About § 02.
Assault count, 10 years
Solid line is Kensington-Chinatown; dashed line is the Toronto-wide baseline, overlaid so the local trend always has a city-wide reference.
Assault · Kensington-Chinatown vs. Toronto
counts · 2016 – 2025Categories in scope · small multiples
Same 10-year windowWhen in the year do reports cluster?
Each cell is one calendar month from Kensington-Chinatown. Shading is by monthly count. Some categories show seasonality: break-and-enter rises in winter, assault peaks in summer.
How Kensington-Chinatown sits among its neighbours
Kensington-Chinatown highlighted on the city map, then a table of its geographically nearest neighbourhoods showing
Recorded incidents in Kensington-Chinatown
Absolute dates only: no addresses, no coordinates, no relative dates. Source: TPS Community Safety Indicators, deduped at neighbourhood resolution.
Data summary for Kensington-Chinatown
Assault rate per 10,000 residents in Kensington-Chinatown moved from 192.1 in 2016 to 234.6 in 2025. Population (2021 Census, 25% sample): 18,120.
| Year | Assault | Auto Theft | Break and Enter | Robbery | Theft Over $5,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 192.1 | 14.9 | 44.7 | 31.5 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 216.3 | 17.1 | 59.0 | 44.1 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 230.7 | 13.3 | 132.4 | 37.0 | 13.8 |
| 2019 | 201.4 | 21.0 | 152.9 | 24.8 | 21.0 |
| 2020 | 205.8 | 29.8 | 95.5 | 21.5 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 208.6 | 13.3 | 53.5 | 16.0 | 12.1 |
| 2022 | 202.0 | 19.9 | 55.2 | 24.8 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 244.5 | 25.4 | 80.6 | 24.3 | 15.4 |
| 2024 | 247.8 | 14.3 | 83.3 | 29.3 | 34.8 |
| 2025 | 234.6 | 14.3 | 56.8 | 23.2 | 27.0 |