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Carlton & Sackville

Carlton St & Sackville St · Toronto, Ontario · Cabbagetown-South St.James Town · Ward 13, Toronto Centre

Carlton & Sackville, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, in the downtown core, was a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it — that was the City's last count here, in 2022. It has a bike lane at the corner. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
1,384
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 27, 2022
1,172 pedestrians · 250 cyclists
Collisions
11
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
9 routes within 1 km · bikeway
Within a walk
61/100
city median 48 · #1,582 of 5,672
6 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 299 m

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Carlton & Sackville

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 · Oct 27, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The north leg carries the load — 724 southbound vehicles, or 52% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 230. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 208 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 217 from 4:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 4 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 north724southbound · 94 bikes · 3.0% heavy
From the west230eastbound · 68 bikes · 4.8% heavy
Total vehicles1,3841,172 pedestrians · 250 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east430westbound · 59 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the south0northbound · 29 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 208 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 217 from 4:00 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

2023 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 18% of collisions here involved an injury. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 64% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 18% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Nov 25, 2024.

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

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11
With an injury2
Property damage only5
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist1
Severity not classified4
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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.

Speeds here, last measured in 2020

The City's counter on Carlton St between Bowman St and Rawlings Ave (126 m away) recorded an average of 35 km/h in its 24-hour count in August 2001; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day. The reading is 25 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Sackville St between Corn Chamomile Lane and Spruce St measured slower: 25 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 33 km/h (Aug 2020) — a much more recent reading than the one above.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sackville Pl · Sackville St – Woodstock Pl · 84 mJun 2018 · 3 days8314 km/h22 km/h28 km/h
Carlton St · Bowman St – Rawlings Ave · 126 mAug 2001 · 24 h1,40635 km/h43 km/h51 km/h
Sackville St · Corn Chamomile Lane – Spruce St · 198 mAug 2020 · 3 days1,48225 km/h33 km/h37 km/h

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.

Getting there

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

Transit and cycling

Streetcar
506 505 nearest 296 m · 4 min
TTC bus
65 94 121 75 nearest 265 m · 3 min
Blue Night
306 305 365
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Sackville St installed 2005
Bike Share
Sumach St / Carlton St (Riverdale Farm) 238 m · 15 docks · 14 stations, 263 docks 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
15 car parks · about 1,942 spaces
EV charging
188 Carlton St · 627 m · 1 Level 2 ports; also 186 Carlton St (633 m), Yonge Street at Dundas St. (2 km)
Bike parking
37 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 32 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
42 mapped lots within 500 m, 587 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
51 Aberdeen Ave · Surface402 m3555% (Q1 2026)
405 Sherbourne St · Surface861 m9175% (Q1 2026)
573 Gerrard St E · Surface1.2 km3675% (Q1 2026)
653 Gerrard St E · Surface1.5 km3072% (Q1 2026)
271 Front Street East · Surface1.8 km83 *—

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: Ethiopian Spice & Grocery Store is 299 m away. For everything else there is one convenience store or gas bar within 300 m. There are 6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 104 eating places within a kilometre — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Maya Bay, 200 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Cabbagetown Pharmacy, 307 m away; 12 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, 1.1 km away, then Holland Centre at 1.8 km. For seniors' housing: Sherbourne Place, a long-term care home 704 m away (two within a kilometre). Dixon Hall - Seniors Health and Wellness runs a seniors' active living programme 588 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Maya Bay · 252 Carlton St200 m
  • Johnny G's · 478 Parliament St271 m · 3 min
  • Cabbage Town Organics · 499 Parliament St275 m · 3 min
  • Thai Room · 243 Carlton St276 m · 3 min
  • Pho-Some · 480 Parliament St285 m · 3 min
6 within 300 m · 104 within 1 km
Grocery
Ethiopian Spice & Grocery Store 299 m · 4 min · 11 within 1 km
Food shops
Tasso Baking 509 m · 6 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Convenience
1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
Pharmacy
Cabbagetown Pharmacy 307 m · 4 min · 12 within 1 km
Child care
  • Sprucecourt Child Care Centre · 56 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day266 m · 3 min
  • Buds and Blossoms · 32 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age · $10-a-day308 m · 4 min
  • Momentum Montessori Regent Park Inc · 79 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day581 m · 7 min
10 licensed centres · 633 spaces within 1 km · 8 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Riverdale Farm Simpson House Washroom · 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.398 m · 5 min
  • Riverdale Park West Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.503 m · 6 min
Drinking water: Riverdale Park West 309 m · 4 min; Riverdale Farm 430 m · 5 min
Health and care
  • Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital · hospital site1.1 km · 14 min
  • Holland Centre · hospital site1.8 km · 21 min
  • Sherbourne Place · long-term care home · 2 within 1 km704 m · 8 min
  • Dixon Hall - Seniors Health and Wellness · seniors' active living centre588 m · 7 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 (26)
  • Riverdale Park West499 m · 6 min
  • Anniversary Park548 m · 7 min
  • Oak Street Parkette579 m · 7 min
  • Regent Park585 m · 7 min
  • Winchester Square Park592 m · 7 min
and 21 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (20)
  • Sprucecourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 266 m · 3 min
  • Monsignor Fraser - St Martin CampusEnglish Separate · 317 m · 4 min
  • Lord Dufferin Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 674 m · 8 min
  • Winchester Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 675 m · 8 min
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.1 km · 13 min
and 15 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parliament Street branch616 m · 7 min
  • Toronto Public Library St. James Town branch1.1 km · 13 min
Places of interest
  • Winchester Street TheatrePerforming Arts · 300 m · 4 min
  • Riverdale FarmAttraction · 373 m · 4 min
  • Native Earth Performing Arts & Aki StudioPerforming Arts · 660 m · 8 min
  • Allan GardensNature/ Park · 940 m · 11 min

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.

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Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,582 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food23/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 6 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit12/28

    3 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go10/14

    library 616 m away · 2 places of interest within 500 m

  • Parks and recreation8/10

    1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care8/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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

43 registered apartment buildings with 5,202 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 20 of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 26 Gifford St (270 m, 15 units, 4 storeys, built 1930), which scored 81 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 43 scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
26 Gifford St154193081 · Jun 2025270 m · 3 min
531-535 Parliament St · 10887609 Canada Inc173188890 · Oct 2025397 m · 5 min
330 Gerrard St E Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation817197681 · Jul 2024416 m · 5 min
434 Gerrard St E social housing · Homes First Society163189194 · Oct 2025481 m · 6 min
252 Sackville St Toronto Community Housing · TCH15922200997 · Nov 2025531 m · 6 min
246 Sackville St Toronto Community Housing · TCH618200991 · Jun 2024572 m · 7 min

43 registered buildings · 5,202 units · 20 social housing · tallest 32 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 five thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 80% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 10, 2026.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle511street/outdoor (4), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft100house driveway/garage (1)

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 Cabbagetown-South St.James Town.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Carlton & Sackville a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 Carlton & Sackville?

A quiet local crossing at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Oct 27, 2022, 15% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Carlton & Sackville a walkable intersection?

Carlton & Sackville scores 61 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,582 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: 2 schools within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 6 places to eat within 300 m.

How fast do cars go at Carlton & Sackville?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Carlton St between Bowman St and Rawlings Ave (August 2001), found an average of 35 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 Carlton & Sackville?

The nearest Green P car park is 51 Aberdeen Ave (402 m away, 35 spaces, 55% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 587 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 15,030 spaces — 42 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 188 Carlton St (627 m).

How do I get to Carlton & Sackville by transit?

Streetcar routes 506, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 296 m away; bus routes 65, 94, 121, 75 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Carlton & Sackville?

6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 104 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Maya Bay (200 m), Johnny G's (271 m), Cabbage Town Organics (275 m), Thai Room (276 m) and Pho-Some (285 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Carlton & Sackville?

The nearest is Riverdale Farm Simpson House Washroom, 201 Winchester St, 398 m away (open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Next nearest: Riverdale Park West Washroom (503 m); Riverdale Farm Meeting House Washroom (533 m).

Is there child care near Carlton & Sackville?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 633 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Sprucecourt Child Care Centre (266 m, 56 spaces), Buds and Blossoms (308 m, 32 spaces) and Momentum Montessori Regent Park Inc (581 m, 79 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Carlton & Sackville?

43 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 5,202 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 26 Gifford St (270 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 531-535 Parliament St (397 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 330 Gerrard St E (416 m, 81 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 434 Gerrard St E (481 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 43 is 87 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Carlton & Sackville?

Toronto Police place five thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Cabbagetown-South St.James Town page.

What neighbourhood is Carlton & Sackville in?

Carlton & Sackville is in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town (City of Toronto neighbourhood 071). It is in Ward 13, Toronto Centre, represented by Councillor Chris Moise.

Sources

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