Neighbourhood · #049
Bayview Woods-Steeles
4,965 street trees · 1.05 km² · pop. 12,085
What the numbers say
Bayview Woods-Steeles is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (85th of 158), with 4,965 city-owned street trees across 1.05 km² — 4,724 per km².
Tree canopy covers 41.5% of the neighbourhood (15th of 158) — essentially unchanged since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.) Heat-risk proxy ranks it 16th-coolest in the city.
Across 149 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.00, 105th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 7.5% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 371 | 7.5% |
| Honey Locust Shademaster gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'shademaster' | 316 | 6.4% |
| Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens | 278 | 5.6% |
| Norway Schwedler Maple acer platanoides 'schwedleri' | 274 | 5.5% |
| Sargents Apple malus sargentii | 238 | 4.8% |
The biggest tree on record
A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 7 GEMINI RD — 160 cm DBH, the largest of the 4,965 street trees here. · Street View
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Tree counts and species from the City of Toronto Street Tree dataset (city-owned trees in the road allowance only — not parks or private property). Canopy % and heat proxy derive from the 2018 land-cover raster. Population is from the 2021 census, joined by the 158-neighbourhood model.