The Regional Municipality of Halton, or Halton Region, is a regional municipality of Ontario, Canada, located in Southern Ontario in the southwest part of the Greater Toronto Area ("GTA"), although it is the only region in the GTA that is not situated directly adjacent to the City of Toronto proper. It comprises the city of Burlington and the towns of Oakville, Milton, and Halton Hills and is policed by the Halton Regional Police Service. The regional council's headquarters are located in Oakville.The Town of Oakville and the City of Burlington are largely urban, while the Towns of Milton and Halton Hills to the north are somewhat more rural. Together with urbanization in the neighbouring Regional Municipality of Peel, the urban area of the GTHA is contiguous all the way from Grimsby to Toronto, as is visible on satellite images of the GTHA and the Golden Horseshoe.Halton has been ranked by Maclean's national crime ranking report as being the "safest place to live" in the Greater Toronto Area, and one of the top five in Canada.
