Neighbourhood · #159
Etobicoke City Centre
4,484 street trees · 2.56 km² · pop. 23,600
What the numbers say
Etobicoke City Centre is among the least-forested in the city (155th of 158), with 4,484 city-owned street trees across 2.56 km² — 1,752 per km².
Tree canopy covers 7.1% of the neighbourhood (155th 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 4th-hottest in the city.
Across 163 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.02, 101st of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 9.9% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 443 | 9.9% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 420 | 9.4% |
| Kentucky Coffeetree gymnocladus dioicus | 220 | 4.9% |
| Freeman Autumn Blaze Maple acer x freemanii (a. rubrum x saccharinum) 'autumn blaze' | 217 | 4.8% |
| Hackberry celtis occidentalis | 157 | 3.5% |
The biggest tree on record
A Northern Catalpa (catalpa speciosa) at 56 GREEN LANES — 130 cm DBH, the largest of the 4,484 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.