Neighbourhood · #061
Taylor-Massey
Neighbourhood Improvement Area 815 street trees · 0.27 km² · pop. 15,025
What the numbers say
Taylor-Massey is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (135th of 158), with 815 city-owned street trees across 0.27 km² — 2,964 per km².
Tree canopy covers 34.6% of the neighbourhood (37th of 158) — up 5.9 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)
Across 116 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.10, 76th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 11.0% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 90 | 11.0% |
| Silver Maple acer saccharinum | 34 | 4.2% |
| Ginkgo ginkgo biloba | 32 | 3.9% |
| Tulip Tree liriodendron tulipifera | 30 | 3.7% |
| Serviceberry amelanchier canadensis | 27 | 3.3% |
The biggest tree on record
A Bur Oak (quercus macrocarpa) at 25 BOEM AVE — 157 cm DBH, the largest of the 815 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.