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College & Grace

College St & Grace St · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale · Little Italy BIA

College & Grace sits in Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto. At the City's last count here, in 2017, it was a mid-volume intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence. It has a bike lane and a park at the corner. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic
7,478
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 14, 2017
4,262 pedestrians · 345 cyclists
Collisions
116
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured · #944 of 5,519
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
10 routes within 1 km · bikeway
Within a walk
69/100
city median 48 · #890 of 5,672
74 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 185 m

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College & Grace

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 · Jan 14, 2017 · weekend

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 3,224 eastbound vehicles, or 43% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 1,198. Most cyclists arrived from the east (157 of 345). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,152 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 72% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (669). Heavy vehicles made up 2.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 north1,198southbound · 35 bikes · 0.3% heavy
From the west3,224eastbound · 146 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles7,4784,262 pedestrians · 345 cyclists · 2.6% heavy
From the east3,056westbound · 157 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the south0northbound · 7 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 669 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 1,152 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

2016 was the peak year (18 collisions), and 2025 closed with 13. 14% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 20 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 11% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 8 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Aug 2, 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 Jun 14, 2007.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions116#944 of 5,519
With an injury16#1096 of 4,669
Property damage only81
Fail to remain20
Involving a pedestrian4#895 of 3,196
Involving a cyclist9#152 of 2,576
Severity not classified19
Since January 2026 (outside the window)8
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20061latest Jun 14, 2007

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 Grace St between Joe Pantalone Lane and Harbord St (320 m away) recorded an average of 23 km/h in its 3-day count in October 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 30 km/h. That segment carries about 3,600 vehicles a day. 7 speed humps slow traffic on Grace Street between Harbord St and College St, and 1 more calmed segment ends here.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Grace St · Joe Pantalone Lane – Harbord St · 320 mOct 2025 · 3 days3,62323 km/h30 km/h34 km/h
Traffic calming
Grace Street (Harbord St – College St): 7 speed humps; Grace Street (College St – Mansfield Ave): 3 speed humps

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 0828, activated 1952 · leading pedestrian interval East/West · transit priority

Getting there

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

Transit and cycling

Streetcar
506 505 511 nearest 14 m
TTC bus
63 94 nearest 592 m · 7 min
Blue Night
306 305 363 307 300
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — College St at Grace St
Cycling
Sharrows - Arterial on College St installed 2010
Bike Share
College St / Crawford St 289 m · 3 min · 19 docks · 14 stations, 257 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
22 car parks · about 1,875 spaces
EV charging
74 Clinton Street · 221 m · 4 Level 2 ports; also 248 Shaw St (905 m), 283 Ossington Ave (1 km)
Bike parking
107 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 38 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
33 mapped lots within 500 m, 558 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
157 Beatrice St · Surface100 m1864% (Q1 2026)
74 Clinton Street · Garage280 m79 *—
80 Clinton Street · Surface290 m25 *—
201 Claremont St · Surface675 m4361% (Q1 2026)
1117 Dundas St W · Surface1 km3786% (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: Fresh Fruit Market is 185 m away. Seven specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Grace Meat Market at 28 m. There are 74 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 242 eating places within a kilometre — 5.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Tebasaki Wing House, 19 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Medi - Place Pharmacy, 72 m away, one of two within 300 m. The nearest hospital site is Toronto Western Hospital, 1.0 km away, then Kensington Eye Institute at 1.0 km.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Tebasaki Wing House · 638 College St19 m
  • Imm Thai Kitchen · 651 College St35 m
  • Papa Johns · 653 College St39 m
  • La Chuperia · 635 College St43 m
  • The Fish and Sandwich · 657 College St49 m
74 within 300 m · 242 within 1 km
Grocery
Fresh Fruit Market 185 m · 6 within 1 km
Food shops
Grace Meat Market 28 m · 7 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
Pharmacy
Medi - Place Pharmacy 72 m · 12 within 1 km
Child care
  • Garderie La Farandole Sur Grace · 202 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day234 m
  • Centro Clinton Day Care Centre · 174 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day469 m · 6 min
  • Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. · 117 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day628 m · 7 min
10 licensed centres · 1,226 spaces within 1 km · 9 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Trinity Bellwoods Park North Baseball Diamond Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible638 m · 8 min
  • Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible650 m · 8 min
Drinking water: Grace - College Parkette 10 m; Fred Hamilton Playground 506 m · 6 min
Health and care
  • Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site1 km · 12 min
  • Kensington Eye Institute · hospital site1 km · 12 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 (20)
and 15 more within 1.5 km
Schools (19)
  • St Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 292 m · 3 min
  • Ecole Elementaire Pierre Elliott TrudeauFrench Public · 374 m · 4 min
  • Clinton Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 469 m · 6 min
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 628 m · 7 min
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 790 m · 9 min
and 14 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch391 m · 5 min
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1.2 km · 14 min
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.5 km · 18 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.

Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.

69of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #890 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food28/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 74 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit14/28

    4 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go8/14

    library 391 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation3/10

    nearest park 0.6 km · nearest centre 1 km

  • Schools and child care8/8

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

  • Crossing on foot8/10

    traffic signal · head start for people walking · traffic calming

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

14 registered apartment buildings with 506 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 72 Clinton St (144 m, 157 units, 7 storeys, built 1989), which scored 91 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
72 Clinton St Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1577198991 · Oct 2025144 m
677 College St323191288 · Sep 2024156 m
555 College St · CAPREIT619202298 · Oct 2025302 m · 4 min
805 College St · Aykler Real Estate Inc.724192992 · Aug 2026514 m · 6 min
333 Harbord St · 1569625 Ontario Limited103191389 · Jun 2026717 m · 9 min
138 Claremont St social housing · Neighbours Community Homes183199490 · Aug 2025787 m · 9 min

14 registered buildings · 506 units · 3 social housing · tallest 9 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 17 thefts from vehicles and seven bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 4.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 2.4 a year. 94% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 43% of the bike thefts were from other premises. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 13, 2026.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1721street/outdoor (16), other (1)
Bicycle theft740other (3), street/outdoor (2)

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 Palmerston-Little Italy.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is College & Grace a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 116 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 College & Grace?

A mid-volume intersection at the City's last count here, in 2017. Its latest count is from Jan 14, 2017, 81% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is College & Grace a walkable intersection?

College & Grace scores 69 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #890 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: 3 schools within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 74 places to eat within 300 m; library 391 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking · traffic calming.

How fast do cars go at College & Grace?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Grace St between Joe Pantalone Lane and Harbord St (October 2025), found an average of 23 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 30 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near College & Grace?

The nearest Green P car park is 157 Beatrice St (100 m away, 18 spaces, 64% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 558 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,240 spaces — 33 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 74 Clinton Street (221 m).

How do I get to College & Grace by transit?

Streetcar routes 506, 505, 511 stop within 1 km, the nearest 14 m away; bus routes 63, 94 within 1 km (nearest stop: College St at Grace St, 592 m).

What restaurants are near College & Grace?

74 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 242 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tebasaki Wing House (19 m), Imm Thai Kitchen (35 m), Papa Johns (39 m), La Chuperia (43 m) and The Fish and Sandwich (49 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near College & Grace?

The nearest is Trinity Bellwoods Park North Baseball Diamond Washroom, 790 Queen St W, 638 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom (650 m); Bickford Park Washroom (656 m).

Is there child care near College & Grace?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,226 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Garderie La Farandole Sur Grace (234 m, 202 spaces), Centro Clinton Day Care Centre (469 m, 174 spaces) and Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. (628 m, 117 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near College & Grace?

14 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 506 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 72 Clinton St (144 m, 157 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 677 College St (156 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 555 College St (302 m, 61 units, RentSafeTO score 98) and 805 College St (514 m, 72 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 14 is 90 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at College & Grace?

Toronto Police place 17 thefts from vehicles and seven bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Palmerston-Little Italy page.

What neighbourhood is College & Grace in?

College & Grace is in Palmerston-Little Italy (City of Toronto neighbourhood 080). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe. The corner falls inside the Little Italy Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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