Neighbourhood · #161
Humber Bay Shores
1,308 street trees · 0.40 km² · pop. 22,605
What the numbers say
Humber Bay Shores is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (126th of 158), with 1,308 city-owned street trees across 0.40 km² — 3,263 per km².
Tree canopy covers 16.8% of the neighbourhood (123rd of 158) — up 1.1 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)
Across 88 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.57, 149th of 158), the most common is fraxinus americana at 13.7% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White Ash fraxinus americana | 179 | 13.7% |
| Green Ash fraxinus pennsylvanica | 129 | 9.9% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 100 | 7.6% |
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 89 | 6.8% |
| Kentucky Coffeetree gymnocladus dioicus | 48 | 3.7% |
The biggest tree on record
A Golden Weeping Willow (salix x sepulcralis 'chrysocoma') at 2225 LAKE SHORE BLVD W — 112 cm DBH, the largest of the 1,308 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.