Neighbourhood · #165
Harbourfront-CityPlace
1,336 street trees · 0.29 km² · pop. 28,135
What the numbers say
Harbourfront-CityPlace is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (91st of 158), with 1,336 city-owned street trees across 0.29 km² — 4,581 per km².
Tree canopy covers 4.9% of the neighbourhood (157th 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 3rd-hottest in the city.
Across 66 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.37, 153rd of 158), the most common is quercus rubra at 12.6% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 169 | 12.6% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 127 | 9.5% |
| Elm ulmus | 109 | 8.2% |
| Freeman Autumn Blaze Maple acer x freemanii (a. rubrum x saccharinum) 'autumn blaze' | 93 | 7.0% |
| Green Ash fraxinus pennsylvanica | 82 | 6.1% |
The biggest tree on record
A Birch (betula) at 2 HOUSEY ST — 100 cm DBH, the largest of the 1,336 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.