Neighbourhood · #054
O'Connor-Parkview
3,421 street trees · 1.26 km² · pop. 18,405
What the numbers say
O'Connor-Parkview is among the least-forested in the city (140th of 158), with 3,421 city-owned street trees across 1.26 km² — 2,715 per km².
Tree canopy covers 39.7% of the neighbourhood (20th of 158) — down 10.4 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.) Heat-risk proxy ranks it 24th-coolest in the city.
Across 163 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.28, 19th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 7.5% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 258 | 7.5% |
| Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens | 156 | 4.6% |
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 119 | 3.5% |
| Freeman Autumn Blaze Maple acer x freemanii (a. rubrum x saccharinum) 'autumn blaze' | 103 | 3.0% |
| Japanese Lilac syringa reticulata | 95 | 2.8% |
The biggest tree on record
A Willow (salix) at 260 DAWES RD — 152 cm DBH, the largest of the 3,421 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.