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Neighbourhood · #035

Westminster-Branson

Emerging Neighbourhood 3,190 street trees · 0.94 km² · pop. 25,705

Map of Westminster-Branson 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
3,190
102nd of 158
Trees per km²
3,407
123rd of 158
Canopy coverage
32.4%
47th of 158
Species variety
3.83
136th of 158
Annual canopy value
$81,616/yr

What the numbers say

Westminster-Branson is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (123rd of 158), with 3,190 city-owned street trees across 0.94 km² — 3,407 per km².

Tree canopy covers 32.4% of the neighbourhood (47th of 158) — up 17.8 points since 2008. (This includes all trees — street, park, and private — from the 2018 land-cover raster.)

Across 150 distinct species (Shannon diversity 3.83, 136th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 16.3% of the trees.

Most common species here

SpeciesTreesShare
Norway Maple acer platanoides519 16.3%
Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens242 7.6%
Honey Locust gleditsia triacanthos179 5.6%
Austrian Pine pinus nigra131 4.1%
White Birch betula papyrifera113 3.5%

The biggest tree on record

A Bur Oak (quercus macrocarpa) at 87 FISHERVILLE RD — 135 cm DBH, the largest of the 3,190 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.