Little Portugal.
Population 15,485 (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 Little Portugal; dashed line is the Toronto-wide baseline, overlaid so the local trend always has a city-wide reference.
Assault · Little Portugal 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 Little Portugal. Shading is by monthly count. Some categories show seasonality: break-and-enter rises in winter, assault peaks in summer.
How Little Portugal sits among its neighbours
Little Portugal highlighted on the city map, then a table of its geographically nearest neighbourhoods showing
Recorded incidents in Little Portugal
Absolute dates only: no addresses, no coordinates, no relative dates. Source: TPS Community Safety Indicators, deduped at neighbourhood resolution.
Data summary for Little Portugal
Assault rate per 10,000 residents in Little Portugal moved from 63.3 in 2016 to 82.7 in 2025. Population (2021 Census, 25% sample): 15,485.
| Year | Assault | Auto Theft | Break and Enter | Robbery | Theft Over $5,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 63.3 | 10.3 | 25.8 | 3.9 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 53.0 | 12.9 | 25.8 | 7.8 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 53.6 | 7.1 | 36.2 | 7.8 | 7.1 |
| 2019 | 49.7 | 7.1 | 37.5 | 5.2 | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 48.4 | 16.8 | 34.9 | 5.8 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 61.4 | 5.2 | 25.8 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 63.9 | 15.5 | 20.7 | 7.8 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 78.1 | 12.9 | 20.7 | 7.1 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 94.3 | 12.3 | 27.1 | 14.2 | 11.0 |
| 2025 | 82.7 | 14.2 | 20.7 | 3.9 | 5.2 |