Palmerston-Little Italy.
Population 13,120 (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 Palmerston-Little Italy; dashed line is the Toronto-wide baseline, overlaid so the local trend always has a city-wide reference.
Assault · Palmerston-Little Italy 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 Palmerston-Little Italy. Shading is by monthly count. Some categories show seasonality: break-and-enter rises in winter, assault peaks in summer.
How Palmerston-Little Italy sits among its neighbours
Palmerston-Little Italy highlighted on the city map, then a table of its geographically nearest neighbourhoods showing
Recorded incidents in Palmerston-Little Italy
Absolute dates only: no addresses, no coordinates, no relative dates. Source: TPS Community Safety Indicators, deduped at neighbourhood resolution.
Data summary for Palmerston-Little Italy
Assault rate per 10,000 residents in Palmerston-Little Italy moved from 50.3 in 2016 to 65.5 in 2025. Population (2021 Census, 25% sample): 13,120.
| Year | Assault | Auto Theft | Break and Enter | Robbery | Theft Over $5,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 50.3 | 13.0 | 29.7 | 16.0 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 57.9 | 11.4 | 28.2 | 8.4 | 5.3 |
| 2018 | 59.5 | 14.5 | 35.1 | 14.5 | 7.6 |
| 2019 | 63.3 | 10.7 | 38.9 | 6.9 | 9.2 |
| 2020 | 38.9 | 12.2 | 36.6 | 4.6 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 51.1 | 6.9 | 24.4 | 6.9 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 61.7 | 19.1 | 28.2 | 6.9 | 6.1 |
| 2023 | 49.5 | 10.7 | 26.7 | 11.4 | 6.1 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 11.4 | 33.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 65.5 | 12.2 | 27.4 | 9.2 | 3.0 |