Neighbourhood · #147
L'Amoreaux West
Emerging Neighbourhood 4,427 street trees · 0.89 km² · pop. 21,545
What the numbers say
L'Amoreaux West is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (82nd of 158), with 4,427 city-owned street trees across 0.89 km² — 4,950 per km².
Tree canopy covers 20.7% of the neighbourhood (102nd of 158) — essentially unchanged since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)
Across 146 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.85, 134th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 16.1% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 714 | 16.1% |
| Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata | 381 | 8.6% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 162 | 3.7% |
| Hackberry celtis occidentalis | 151 | 3.4% |
| Freeman Autumn Blaze Maple acer x freemanii (a. rubrum x saccharinum) 'autumn blaze' | 145 | 3.3% |
The biggest tree on record
A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 63 KELVINWAY DR — 130 cm DBH, the largest of the 4,427 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.