Neighbourhood · #115
Mount Dennis
Neighbourhood Improvement Area 1,944 street trees · 0.54 km² · pop. 13,055
What the numbers say
Mount Dennis is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (119th of 158), with 1,944 city-owned street trees across 0.54 km² — 3,597 per km².
Tree canopy covers 30.0% of the neighbourhood (60th 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 4.20, 43rd of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 7.8% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 151 | 7.8% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 114 | 5.9% |
| Siberian Elm ulmus pumila | 97 | 5.0% |
| Manitoba Maple acer negundo | 74 | 3.8% |
| Green Ash fraxinus pennsylvanica | 63 | 3.2% |
The biggest tree on record
A Willow (salix) at 3700 EGLINTON AVE W — 140 cm DBH, the largest of the 1,944 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.