Neighbourhood · #116
Steeles
Emerging Neighbourhood 5,868 street trees · 1.18 km² · pop. 22,765
What the numbers say
Steeles is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (81st of 158), with 5,868 city-owned street trees across 1.18 km² — 4,976 per km².
Tree canopy covers 16.0% of the neighbourhood (126th of 158) — essentially unchanged since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)
Across 154 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.82, 138th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 10.1% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 590 | 10.1% |
| Honey Locust Shademaster gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'shademaster' | 497 | 8.5% |
| Littleleaf Linden tilia cordata | 479 | 8.2% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 239 | 4.1% |
| Hackberry celtis occidentalis | 234 | 4.0% |
The biggest tree on record
A Oak (quercus) at 257 HUNTSMILL BLVD — 90 cm DBH, the largest of the 5,868 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.