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Neighbourhood · #058

Old East York

2,198 street trees · 0.61 km² · pop. 9,160

Map of Old East York 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
2,198
123rd of 158
Trees per km²
3,629
117th of 158
Canopy coverage
32.8%
46th of 158
Species variety
4.23
31st of 158
Annual canopy value
$54,950/yr

What the numbers say

Old East York is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (117th of 158), with 2,198 city-owned street trees across 0.61 km² — 3,629 per km².

Tree canopy covers 32.8% of the neighbourhood (46th of 158) — up 15.0 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)

Across 149 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.23, 31st of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 10.4% of the trees.

Most common species here

SpeciesTreesShare
Norway Maple acer platanoides229 10.4%
Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens80 3.6%
Red Oak quercus rubra79 3.6%
Serviceberry amelanchier canadensis77 3.5%
Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos68 3.1%

The biggest tree on record

A Red Oak (quercus rubra) at 10 FOUR OAKS GT139 cm DBH, the largest of the 2,198 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.