Neighbourhood · #145
Malvern West
Emerging Neighbourhood 3,546 street trees · 1.05 km² · pop. 17,320
What the numbers say
Malvern West is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (124th of 158), with 3,546 city-owned street trees across 1.05 km² — 3,375 per km².
Tree canopy covers 18.9% of the neighbourhood (114th of 158) — essentially unchanged since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)
Across 113 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.77, 142nd of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 13.1% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 463 | 13.1% |
| Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata | 306 | 8.6% |
| Honey Locust Shademaster gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'shademaster' | 279 | 7.9% |
| Hackberry celtis occidentalis | 131 | 3.7% |
| Freeman Autumn Blaze Maple acer x freemanii (a. rubrum x saccharinum) 'autumn blaze' | 123 | 3.5% |
The biggest tree on record
A Golden Weeping Willow (salix x sepulcralis 'chrysocoma') at 49 APPLEMORE RD — 122 cm DBH, the largest of the 3,546 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.