Neighbourhood · #167
Church-Wellesley
849 street trees · 0.14 km² · pop. 22,320
What the numbers say
Church-Wellesley is above-average for tree density (50th of 158), with 849 city-owned street trees across 0.14 km² — 5,951 per km².
Tree canopy covers 13.4% of the neighbourhood (140th 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 11th-hottest in the city.
Across 108 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.89, 127th of 158), the most common is gleditsia triacanthos at 9.4% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 80 | 9.4% |
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 73 | 8.6% |
| Elm ulmus | 58 | 6.8% |
| Honey Locust Shademaster gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'shademaster' | 42 | 4.9% |
| Silver Maple acer saccharinum | 34 | 4.0% |
The biggest tree on record
A American Elm (ulmus americana) at 8 CAWTHRA SQ — 120 cm DBH, the largest of the 849 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.