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Bloor & Rusholme

Bloor St W & Rusholme Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Dufferin Grove · Ward 9, Davenport · Bloorcourt Village BIA

Bloor & Rusholme, in Dufferin Grove, in central Toronto, is a moderately heavy crossing. It has Dufferin Station, a protected bikeway and parks at the corner.

Traffic volume
10,228
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 1, 2003
1,125 pedestrians · 257 cyclists
Collisions
46
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
6 with an injury · 25 property damage · #2179 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
Dufferin Station
subway station within 250 m
2 streetcar routes · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 38 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,280 vehicles an hour, about the citywide median. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 9 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 2.5% of vehicle volume, about 3.2× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 4.6 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 88%, from 16 in 2016–2020 to 30 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Bloor & Rusholme

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

Subway
Dufferin Station (Line 2)222 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)296 m; Lansdowne Station (Line 2)927 m
Streetcar
506512 nearest 874 m
TTC bus
1612940294634726 nearest 199 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306300329363
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Havelock St
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020
Bike Share
Salem Ave / Bloor St W 43 m · 15 docks · 22 stations, 389 docks within 1 km

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

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (27)
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 343 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 437 m
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 460 m
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 672 m
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 741 m
  • Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 759 m
  • and 21 more
Parks (32)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch249 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1.3 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 48 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 7 grocery and convenience stores, and 262 eating places within a kilometre — 3.6× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The Empire 1, 15 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés48 within 300 m · 262 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience7 within 300 m · 43 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Empire 1 · 1018 Bloor St W15 mPassed, May 2026
Cabin Sports Bar · 1026 Bloor St W21 mPassed, Jun 2026
Grille & Wrap · 1018 Bloor St W22 mPassed, Sep 2026
Szechuan Noodle Bowl · 1030 Bloor St W27 mPassed, Jun 2026
Gus Tacos · 1028 Bloor St W29 mPassed, Sep 2026
T & K Convenience · 1024 Bloor St Wgrocery31 mPassed, Jan 2026
Cafe Paradise · 1010 Bloor St W38 mPassed, Jul 2026
Paradise Theatre - Bar Blitmore - Osteria · 1006 Bloor St W50 mPassed, Jul 2026

Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.

Washrooms & water

The nearest public washroom is Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom, 424 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 77 m away at Salem Parkette.

  • Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    424 m
  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    View outdoor rink hours
    463 m
  • Dovercourt Park Washroom · 155 Bartlett Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    546 m
Drinking water
Salem Parkette bottle filling station · 77 m; Dufferin Grove Park drinking fountain · 421 m

Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.

Child care

14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 974 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre (283 m, 106 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age).

Within 1 km14 centres · 974 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 14
  • Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre · 823 Dovercourt Rd
    106 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    283 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    445 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    452 m
  • Kids Korner Day Care · 180 Westmoreland Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    572 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (919 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 141 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 919 m1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.1 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 141 m760 Dovercourt Rd

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Apartment buildings nearby

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

21 registered apartment buildings with 1,341 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1019 Bloor St W (30 m, 26 units, 3 storeys, built 1928), which scored 63 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 21 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 42 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings21 · 1,341 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202642 across the 21
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1019 Bloor St W · Donros Developments Limited263192863 · Jul 2026030 m
357 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management26716196995 · Jul 202610109 m
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 20250188 m
730 Dovercourt Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management35620196797 · Jul 202514191 m
323 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management22620196887 · Jun 202511218 m
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 20250254 m
675 Dovercourt Rd113194045 · Jul 20260289 m
1121 Bloor St W · Charles Dieu114192690 · Jul 20250322 m

The City's RentSafeTO register — rental apartment buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units — with the score from each building's latest City evaluation (out of 100; poor scores trigger a full audit). LTB orders are final Landlord and Tenant Board orders naming the address (Jan 2026 – Jun 2026); fire-code violations are open items in Toronto Fire Services' inspection data. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport. Condominiums and houses are not registered.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots680 lots · ≈21,880 spaces · 65.6 ha
Within 500 m50 lots · ≈940 spaces
Green P (public)18 car parks · about 799 spaces
EV charging (City)685 Dovercourt Rd · 232 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking114 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Salem Ave · Surface50 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface152 m3763% (Q1 2026)
745 Ossington Ave · Surface477 m4667% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface741 m4963% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface917 m3471% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 48 m away, ≈14 spaces; 56 m away, ≈12 spaces (Green P); 67 m away, ≈12 spaces; 71 m away, ≈9 spaces; 77 m away, ≈32 spaces; 79 m away, ≈21 spaces (Green P). More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (677 m, 2 ports); 273 Christie St (1.4 km, 2 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (1.4 km, 2 ports).

Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 8-hour, Apr 1, 2003

Traffic is spread evenly across the approaches, from 5,003 vehicles entering from the east to 5,225 from the west. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,458 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,535 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 23 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2003, 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 north0southbound · 104 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west5,225eastbound · 14 bikes · 4.0% heavy
Total vehicles10,2281,125 pedestrians · 257 cyclists · 4.0% heavy
From the east5,003westbound · 7 bikes · 4.1% heavy
From the south0northbound · 132 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,458 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,535 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 1, 2003

Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.

How fast traffic moves here

Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming

The City's counter on Bloor St W between Westmoreland Ave and Rusholme Rd (30 m away) recorded an average of 33 km/h in its 7-day count in June 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 11,000 vehicles a day. Rusholme Rd between Hepbourne St and Bloor St W measured slower: 29 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Dec 2021). The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bloor St W · Westmoreland Ave – Rusholme Rd · 30 mJun 2022 · 7 days10,98933 km/h43 km/h49 km/h
Rusholme Rd · Hepbourne St – Bloor St W · 127 mDec 2021 · 3 days1,31229 km/h37 km/h41 km/h

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

2023 was the peak year (8 collisions), and 2025 closed with 7. 13% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 16 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 35% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 17% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 15, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions46#2179 of 5,508
With an injury6#2392 of 4,660
Property damage only25
Fail to remain16
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist8#189 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified15
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201459latest Jun 15, 2026

Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.

Killed or seriously injured

Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.

Thefts reported at this corner

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

Toronto Police place 19 thefts from vehicles and 11 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 6 in 2023–2025, about 2.0 a year, against 3.4 a year before that. 79% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 36% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking. Since January 2026, 2 more have been reported, the latest on May 6, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1922street/outdoor (15), apartment parking (3)
Bicycle theft1140apartment parking (4), street/outdoor (3)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 6, 2026. 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 Dufferin Grove.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bloor & Rusholme a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 46 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 Bloor & Rusholme?

A moderately heavy crossing. Its latest count is from Apr 1, 2003, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Bloor & Rusholme?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bloor St W between Westmoreland Ave and Rusholme Rd (June 2022), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Bloor & Rusholme?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Salem Ave (50 m away, 33 spaces, 74% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 680 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,880 spaces — 50 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (232 m).

How do I get to Bloor & Rusholme by transit?

Dufferin Station (Line 2) is 222 m away; streetcar routes 506, 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 874 m away; bus routes 161, 29, 402, 94, 63, 47, 26, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Havelock St, 199 m).

What restaurants are near Bloor & Rusholme?

48 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 262 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Empire 1 (15 m), Cabin Sports Bar (21 m), Grille & Wrap (22 m), Szechuan Noodle Bowl (27 m) and Gus Tacos (29 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Bloor & Rusholme?

The nearest is Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom, 875 Dufferin St, 424 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (463 m); Dovercourt Park Washroom (546 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Bloor & Rusholme?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 974 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre (283 m, 106 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (445 m, 49 spaces) and Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (452 m, 39 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bloor & Rusholme?

21 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,341 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1019 Bloor St W (30 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 63), 357 Rusholme Rd (109 m, 267 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 767 Dovercourt Rd (188 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 730 Dovercourt Rd (191 m, 356 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 21 is 84 out of 100; 2 scored below 70. Condos and houses are not on the City's register. Each building's full record — score history, LTB orders, fire-code inspections, permits — is on LandlordReport.

How many thefts are reported at Bloor & Rusholme?

Toronto Police place 19 thefts from vehicles and 11 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 2 since January 2026. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dufferin Grove page.

What neighbourhood is Bloor & Rusholme in?

Bloor & Rusholme is in Dufferin Grove (City of Toronto neighbourhood 083). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. The corner falls inside the Bloorcourt Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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