Neighbourhood · #031
Yorkdale-Glen Park
Emerging Neighbourhood 6,095 street trees · 1.54 km² · pop. 16,625
What the numbers say
Yorkdale-Glen Park is middle-of-the-pack for street trees (109th of 158), with 6,095 city-owned street trees across 1.54 km² — 3,960 per km².
Tree canopy covers 9.4% of the neighbourhood (152nd 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 8th-hottest in the city.
Across 171 distinct species (Shannon diversity 4.19, 45th of 158), the most common is acer platanoides at 7.1% of the trees.
Most common species here
| Species | Trees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norway Maple acer platanoides | 435 | 7.1% |
| Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens | 313 | 5.1% |
| Kentucky Coffeetree gymnocladus dioicus | 312 | 5.1% |
| Honey Locust Skyline gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'skyline' | 228 | 3.7% |
| Sargents Apple malus sargentii | 210 | 3.4% |
The biggest tree on record
A Silver Maple (acer saccharinum) at 789 GLENCAIRN AVE — 159 cm DBH, the largest of the 6,095 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.