Neighbourhood · #003
Thistletown-Beaumond Heights
Neighbourhood Improvement Area 4,502 street trees · 0.84 km² · pop. 9,850
What the numbers say
Thistletown-Beaumond Heights is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (66th of 158), with 4,502 city-owned street trees across 0.84 km² — 5,339 per km².
Tree canopy covers 40.0% of the neighbourhood (19th of 158) — down 7.8 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.) Heat-risk proxy ranks it 18th-coolest in the city.
Across 179 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.08, 86th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 16.2% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 730 | 16.2% |
| Linden tilia | 160 | 3.6% |
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 159 | 3.5% |
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 159 | 3.5% |
| Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens | 140 | 3.1% |
The biggest tree on record
A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 14 LUND AVE — 141 cm DBH, the largest of the 4,502 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.