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Neighbourhood · #029

Maple Leaf

3,489 street trees · 0.64 km² · pop. 9,845

Map of Maple Leaf showing the neighbourhood outlined in green with every city-owned street tree as a dark-green dot, plus a locator inset showing its position in Toronto.
Street trees
3,489
89th of 158
Trees per km²
5,429
63rd of 158
Canopy coverage
22.5%
90th of 158
Species variety
4.19
46th of 158
Annual canopy value
$83,314/yr

What the numbers say

Maple Leaf is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (63rd of 158), with 3,489 city-owned street trees across 0.64 km² — 5,429 per km².

Tree canopy covers 22.5% of the neighbourhood (90th of 158) — essentially unchanged since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)

Across 162 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.19, 46th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 8.6% of the trees.

Most common species here

SpeciesTreesShare
Norway Maple acer platanoides299 8.6%
Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens239 6.9%
Japanese Lilac syringa reticulata123 3.5%
Sargents Apple malus sargentii113 3.2%
White Spruce picea glauca111 3.2%

The biggest tree on record

A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 2561 KEELE ST165 cm DBH, the largest of the 3,489 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.