Neighbourhood · #005
Elms-Old Rexdale
Neighbourhood Improvement Area 2,810 street trees · 0.74 km² · pop. 9,355
What the numbers say
Elms-Old Rexdale is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (113th of 158), with 2,810 city-owned street trees across 0.74 km² — 3,793 per km².
Tree canopy covers 30.4% of the neighbourhood (58th of 158) — down 4.5 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)
Across 153 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.12, 69th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 10.4% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 292 | 10.4% |
| Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata | 157 | 5.6% |
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 114 | 4.1% |
| Kentucky Coffeetree gymnocladus dioicus | 101 | 3.6% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 100 | 3.6% |
The biggest tree on record
A Golden Weeping Willow (salix x sepulcralis 'chrysocoma') at 57 SHENDALE DR — 200 cm DBH, the largest of the 2,810 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.