Neighbourhood · #164
Wellington Place
1,297 street trees · 0.25 km² · pop. 25,570
What the numbers say
Wellington Place is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (73rd of 158), with 1,297 city-owned street trees across 0.25 km² — 5,169 per km².
Tree canopy covers 5.4% of the neighbourhood (156th of 158) — essentially unchanged since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.) Heat-risk proxy ranks it 2nd-hottest in the city.
Across 87 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.26, 155th of 158), the most common is gleditsia triacanthos at 23.9% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos | 310 | 23.9% |
| Elm ulmus | 152 | 11.7% |
| Kentucky Coffeetree gymnocladus dioicus | 69 | 5.3% |
| Red Oak quercus rubra | 62 | 4.8% |
| Accolade Elm ulmus davidiana 'japonica morton | 48 | 3.7% |
The biggest tree on record
A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 25 CLARENCE SQ — 110 cm DBH, the largest of the 1,297 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.