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Avenue & Carmichael

Avenue Rd & Carmichael Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Bedford Park-Nortown · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

Avenue & Carmichael sits in Bedford Park-Nortown. At the City's last count here, in 2022, it was a busier-than-typical intersection. Nearby are 6 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
17,437
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 7, 2022
351 pedestrians · 10 cyclists
Collisions
30
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
6 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
62/100
city median 48 · #1,426 of 5,672
13 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 123 m

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Avenue & Carmichael

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume8-hour count · Apr 7, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The north leg carries the load — 9,411 southbound vehicles, or 54% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 303. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,493 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,370 from 4:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north9,411southbound · 6 bikes · 3.7% heavy
From the west303eastbound · 1 bikes · 3.0% heavy
Total vehicles17,437351 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · 3.7% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south7,723northbound · 3 bikes · 3.6% heavy

Peak hours: 2,493 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,370 from 4:15 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

2017 was the peak year (6 collisions), and 2025 closed with 3. 10% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 23, 2026.

No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jan 7, 2008.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions30
With an injury3
Property damage only27
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20061latest Jan 7, 2008

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

How fast traffic moves here

The City's counter on Carmichael Ave between Avenue Rd and Kelso Ave (84 m away) recorded an average of 34 km/h in its 3-day count in March 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 42 km/h. That segment carries about 900 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Wilson Ave (292 m away, 40 km/h limit), 12% of the 214,602 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Avenue Rd · Carmichael Ave – Ridley Blvd · 31 mSep 2012 · 3 days13,202———
Carmichael Ave · Avenue Rd – Kelso Ave · 84 mMar 2025 · 3 days88734 km/h42 km/h45 km/h
Speed sign
Wilson Ave (eastbound), 292 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 40 km/h, 85th percentile 49 km/h; 12% at 50 km/h or more. 214,602 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

The crossing
Signal 1768, activated 1997 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

TTC bus
61 96 165 97 nearest 17 m
Express
996
Blue Night
396
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Avenue Rd at Carmichael Ave; Avenue Rd at Ridley Blvd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
3 car parks · about 265 spaces
EV charging
no City charger within 2 km
Bike parking
5 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
47 mapped lots within 500 m, 306 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
246 Brooke Ave · Surface562 m9467% (Q1 2026)
1880 Avenue Rd · Surface611 m3232% (Q1 2026)
3885 Yonge St · Surface1.8 km13929% (Q1 2026)

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

You can do a shop on foot from here: Bruno's Fine Foods is 123 m away. There are 13 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 50 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Chiang Rai, 134 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 191 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Baycrest Hospital, 1.6 km away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Chiang Rai · 2070 Avenue Rd134 m
  • L.s.l · 2066 Avenue Rd144 m
  • The Copper Chimney Authentic Indian Room · 2050 Avenue Rd173 m
  • Karbouzi · 2048 Avenue Rd177 m
  • Aroma Espresso Bar · 2040 Avenue Rd203 m
13 within 300 m · 50 within 1 km
Grocery
Bruno's Fine Foods 123 m · 3 within 1 km
Food shops
Short and Sweet Bakeshop 419 m · 5 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart 191 m · 4 within 1 km
Child care
  • Ridley Orchard School Ltd. · 98 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age · $10-a-day468 m · 6 min
  • Armour Heights Child Care Program · 110 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day529 m · 6 min
  • PLASP St. Margaret C.S. · 28 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day543 m · 6 min
7 licensed centres · 511 spaces within 1 km · 3 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Armour Heights Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed257 m · 3 min
Health and care
  • Baycrest Hospital · hospital site1.6 km · 19 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks (7)
  • Old Orchard Park1 km · 11 min
  • Grey Parkette1 km · 12 min
  • Stewart A. McGregor Parkette1.1 km · 14 min
  • Bathurst - Wilson Parkette1.2 km · 14 min
  • Brookdale Park1.3 km · 16 min
and 2 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (7)
  • Armour Heights Public SchoolEnglish Public · 529 m · 6 min
  • St Margaret Catholic Elementary School - Carmichael SiteEnglish Separate · 543 m · 6 min
  • Glen Briar Academy Elementary SchoolPrivate · 554 m · 7 min
  • Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • Avro AcademyPrivate · 1.3 km · 16 min
and 2 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Armour Heights branch238 m

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.

62of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,426 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food26/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 13 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit13/28

    7 stops within 300 m · 6 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 238 m away

  • Parks and recreation6/10

    nearest park 1 km · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care4/8

    nearest school 0.5 km · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot6/10

    traffic signal · head start for people walking

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

19 registered apartment buildings with 1,130 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2125 Avenue Rd (101 m, 33 units, 4 storeys, built 1955), which scored 96 out of 100 at its September 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 97, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
2125 Avenue Rd · G.l.g. Developments Ltd.334195596 · Sep 2026101 m
2135 Avenue Rd543195396 · Aug 2026209 m
200 Ridley Blvd · Signet Group Inc.904195787 · Aug 2024230 m
193 Wilson Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1255198289 · Sep 2024306 m · 4 min
2200 Avenue Rd · Viron Properties Inc.15216196999 · Jul 2025373 m · 4 min
166 Wilson Ave · Signet Group Inc.604195099 · Jun 2025383 m · 5 min

19 registered buildings · 1,130 units · 2 social housing · tallest 16 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200house driveway/garage (1), other (1)
Bicycle theft000—

Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Bedford Park-Nortown.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Avenue & Carmichael a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 30 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.

How busy is Avenue & Carmichael?

A busier-than-typical intersection at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Apr 7, 2022, 1.89× today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Avenue & Carmichael a walkable intersection?

Avenue & Carmichael scores 62 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,426 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 1 grocery store within 300 m · 13 places to eat within 300 m; nearest park 1 km · 1 community centre within 800 m; library 238 m away. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking.

How fast do cars go at Avenue & Carmichael?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Carmichael Ave between Avenue Rd and Kelso Ave (March 2025), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 292 m away (40 km/h), 12% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Avenue & Carmichael?

The nearest Green P car park is 246 Brooke Ave (562 m away, 94 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 306 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,000 spaces — 47 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Avenue & Carmichael by transit?

Bus routes 61, 96, 165, 97, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: Avenue Rd at Carmichael Ave, 17 m).

What restaurants are near Avenue & Carmichael?

13 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 50 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Chiang Rai (134 m), L.s.l (144 m), The Copper Chimney Authentic Indian Room (173 m), Karbouzi (177 m) and Aroma Espresso Bar (203 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Avenue & Carmichael?

The nearest is Armour Heights Community Centre Washroom, 2140 Avenue Rd, 257 m away.

Is there child care near Avenue & Carmichael?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 511 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Ridley Orchard School Ltd. (468 m, 98 spaces), Armour Heights Child Care Program (529 m, 110 spaces) and PLASP St. Margaret C.S. (543 m, 28 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Avenue & Carmichael?

19 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,130 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2125 Avenue Rd (101 m, 33 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 2135 Avenue Rd (209 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 200 Ridley Blvd (230 m, 90 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 193 Wilson Ave (306 m, 125 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 19 is 97 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Avenue & Carmichael?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Bedford Park-Nortown page.

What neighbourhood is Avenue & Carmichael in?

Avenue & Carmichael is in Bedford Park-Nortown (City of Toronto neighbourhood 039). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined