Neighbourhood · #171
Junction-Wallace Emerson
3,188 street trees · 0.57 km² · pop. 23,180
What the numbers say
Junction-Wallace Emerson is above-average for tree density (58th of 158), with 3,188 city-owned street trees across 0.57 km² — 5,624 per km².
Tree canopy covers 12.0% of the neighbourhood (143rd 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 13th-hottest in the city.
Across 178 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.31, 8th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 8.5% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 272 | 8.5% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 143 | 4.5% |
| Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata | 107 | 3.4% |
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 101 | 3.2% |
| Silver Maple acer saccharinum | 101 | 3.2% |
The biggest tree on record
A Norway Maple (acer platanoides) at 111 GEARY AVE — 152 cm DBH, the largest of the 3,188 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.