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Neighbourhood · #070

South Riverdale

5,023 street trees · 2.84 km² · pop. 27,815

Map of South Riverdale 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
5,023
55th of 158
Trees per km²
1,768
154th of 158
Canopy coverage
15.9%
128th of 158
Species variety
4.14
66th of 158
Annual canopy value
$184,042/yr

What the numbers say

South Riverdale is among the least-forested in the city (154th of 158), with 5,023 city-owned street trees across 2.84 km² — 1,768 per km².

Tree canopy covers 15.9% of the neighbourhood (128th of 158) — up 1.3 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)

Across 176 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.14, 66th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 9.5% of the trees.

Most common species here

SpeciesTreesShare
Norway Maple acer platanoides474 9.4%
Silver Maple acer saccharinum290 5.8%
Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos277 5.5%
Red Oak quercus rubra245 4.9%
Green Ash fraxinus pennsylvanica211 4.2%

The biggest tree on record

A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 97 MORSE ST — 174 cm DBH, the largest of the 5,023 street trees here. · Street View

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Canopy equity post →Decade of standing still →← All neighbourhoods

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.