Neighbourhood · #099
Mount Pleasant East
3,733 street trees · 0.79 km² · pop. 16,370
What the numbers say
Mount Pleasant East is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (86th of 158), with 3,733 city-owned street trees across 0.79 km² — 4,703 per km².
Tree canopy covers 43.9% of the neighbourhood (10th of 158) — up 1.7 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.) Heat-risk proxy ranks it 14th-coolest in the city.
Across 174 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.17, 54th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 10.2% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 379 | 10.2% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 202 | 5.4% |
| Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata | 168 | 4.5% |
| Japanese Lilac syringa reticulata | 159 | 4.3% |
| Norway Crimson King Maple acer platanoides 'crimson king' | 117 | 3.1% |
The biggest tree on record
A Japanese Katsura (cercidiphyllum japonicum) at 43 CHESTON RD — 181 cm DBH, the largest of the 3,733 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.