Neighbourhood · #021
Humber Summit
Neighbourhood Improvement Area 6,077 street trees · 2.01 km² · pop. 12,185
What the numbers say
Humber Summit is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (133rd of 158), with 6,077 city-owned street trees across 2.01 km² — 3,018 per km².
Tree canopy covers 11.2% of the neighbourhood (147th 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 9th-hottest in the city.
Across 162 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.80, 140th of 158), the most common is gymnocladus dioicus at 10.6% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Coffeetree gymnocladus dioicus | 644 | 10.6% |
| Honey Locust Skyline gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'skyline' | 504 | 8.3% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 426 | 7.0% |
| Japanese Lilac syringa reticulata | 327 | 5.4% |
| Redmond Basswood tilia americana 'redmond' | 311 | 5.1% |
The biggest tree on record
A Red Oak (quercus rubra) at 176 GRACEDALE BLVD — 199 cm DBH, the largest of the 6,077 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.