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Neighbourhood · #030

Brookhaven-Amesbury

4,114 street trees · 0.89 km² · pop. 17,495

Map of Brookhaven-Amesbury showing the neighbourhood outlined in green with every city-owned street tree as a dark-green dot, plus a locator inset showing its position in Toronto.
Street trees
4,114
75th of 158
Trees per km²
4,615
90th of 158
Canopy coverage
19.8%
106th of 158
Species variety
4.26
24th of 158
Annual canopy value
$103,578/yr

What the numbers say

Brookhaven-Amesbury is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (90th of 158), with 4,114 city-owned street trees across 0.89 km² — 4,615 per km².

Tree canopy covers 19.8% of the neighbourhood (106th of 158) — down 2.7 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)

Across 169 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.26, 24th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 8.9% of the trees.

Most common species here

SpeciesTreesShare
Norway Maple acer platanoides366 8.9%
Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata220 5.3%
Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens193 4.7%
Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos132 3.2%
White Spruce picea glauca107 2.6%

The biggest tree on record

A Northern Catalpa (catalpa speciosa) at 35 HEARST CRCL175 cm DBH, the largest of the 4,114 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.