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Neighbourhood · #121

Oakridge

Neighbourhood Improvement Area 1,364 street trees · 0.49 km² · pop. 13,705

Map of Oakridge 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
1,364
143rd of 158
Trees per km²
2,803
137th of 158
Canopy coverage
30.9%
56th of 158
Species variety
4.27
21st of 158
Annual canopy value
$36,652/yr

What the numbers say

Oakridge is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (137th of 158), with 1,364 city-owned street trees across 0.49 km² — 2,803 per km².

Tree canopy covers 30.9% of the neighbourhood (56th of 158) — up 9.9 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)

Across 137 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.27, 21st of 158), the most common is quercus rubra at 5.1% of the trees.

Most common species here

SpeciesTreesShare
Red Oak quercus rubra69 5.1%
Manitoba Maple acer negundo57 4.2%
Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos56 4.1%
Japanese Lilac syringa reticulata49 3.6%
Serviceberry amelanchier canadensis44 3.2%

The biggest tree on record

A Red Oak (quercus rubra) at 13 KENWORTHY AVE156 cm DBH, the largest of the 1,364 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.