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Coxwell & Barker

Coxwell Ave & Barker Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Danforth East York · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Coxwell & Barker is a moderately travelled crossing. It sits in Danforth East York. It has a school within 250 m and parks at the corner. Nearby: Coxwell Station (Line 2) 897 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
7,873
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 8, 2017
234 pedestrians · 10 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 5 property damage · #4394 of 5,508
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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Coxwell Station 897 m · 8 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 980 vehicles, about the citywide median. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 34 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 0.9 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Coxwell & Barker

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Coxwell Station (Line 2)897 m
TTC bus
7062404878919322 nearest 17 m
Blue Night
322300
Nearest stops
15 surface stops within 300 m — Coxwell Ave at Memorial Park Ave South Side; Coxwell Ave at Barker Ave North Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Cosburn Ave / Durant Ave 304 m · 15 docks · 5 stations, 71 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 (18)
  • R H McGregor Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 215 m
  • East York Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 343 m
  • East York Alternative Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 371 m
  • Cosburn Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 379 m
  • Diefenbaker Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 502 m
  • Ecole Elementaire La MosaiqueFrench Public · 580 m
  • and 12 more
Community centres
Parks (18)
  • Memorial Gardens Park100 m
  • East York Civic Centre128 m
  • True Davidson Park250 m
  • Cosburn Park279 m
  • Les Anthony Parkette340 m
  • Dieppe Park672 m
  • and 12 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library S. Walter Stewart branch211 m
  • Toronto Public Library Danforth/Coxwell branch1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 20 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 65 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Abdul Rassul, 134 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés20 within 300 m · 65 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 19 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Abdul Rassul · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, Jun 2026
Annina's Temptations Inc · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, May 2026
Blazej Brzozowski Hot Dog Cart · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, Jul 2026
Cheese Headz · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, Jun 2026
Didi Grill · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, Apr 2026
Get Your Own Taters · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, Apr 2026
Get Your Own Taters ( Nomnomnom#y7631v) · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, May 2026
Hotspot Bubble Tea · 850 Coxwell Ave134 mPassed, Jun 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 East York Civic Centre, 134 m away, Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 109 m away at Memorial Gardens Park.

  • East York Civic Centre · 850 Coxwell Avenue
    Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed · accessible
    134 m
  • Dieppe Park Washroom · 455 Cosburn Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    611 m
  • Dieppe Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 455 Cosburn Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    720 m
Drinking water
Memorial Gardens Park drinking fountain · 109 m; Cosburn Park drinking fountain · 293 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,303 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) (143 m, 57 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km10 centres · 1,303 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 10
  • Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) · 550 Mortimer Ave
    57 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    143 m
  • McGregor Jr YMCA · 555 Mortimer Ave
    251 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    215 m
  • Centennial College East York Day Care (Plains Rd) · 175 Plains Rd
    56 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    502 m
  • East York Montessori School · 486 Cosburn Ave
    31 spaces · toddler, preschool
    545 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 224 (920 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (2.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 224 · 920 m1313 Woodbine Ave
Police55 Division · 2.6 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.4 km105 Cedarvale Ave

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

Seven registered apartment buildings with 198 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 611 Cosburn Ave (245 m, 12 units, 3 storeys, built 1951), which scored 85 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 2 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings7 · 198 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20262 across the 7
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest6 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
611 Cosburn Ave123195185 · Sep 20240245 m
494 Mortimer Ave · Deborah Holmes123196574 · Jun 20240384 m
470 Mortimer Ave · Mortimer Rentals Inc424195790 · Jun 20240464 m
831 Cosburn Ave113195081 · Sep 20240801 m
325 Sammon Ave · Brayden Irwin263195094 · Jul 20252857 m
280 Sammon Ave344195571 · Sep 202401 km
1430 Woodbine Avesocial housing616199296 · Aug 202601 km

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 lots437 lots · ≈13,660 spaces · 41 ha
Within 500 m30 lots · ≈880 spaces
Green P (public)10 car parks · about 329 spaces
EV charging (City)1612 Danforth Ave. · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking16 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
850 Coxwell Ave · Surface152 m1862% (Q1 2026)
1612 Danforth Ave · Surface1 km2275% (Q1 2026)
737 Rhodes Ave · Surface1 km2450% (Q1 2026)
1439 Danforth Ave · Surface1 km1895% (Q1 2026)
101 Cedarvale Ave · Surface1.4 km3550% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 63 m away, ≈8 spaces; 124 m away, ≈16 spaces; 145 m away, ≈34 spaces (Green P); 168 m away, ≈86 spaces (Green P); 185 m away, ≈33 spaces; 214 m away, ≈26 spaces. More EV charging: 543 Strathmore Blvd (1.2 km, 2 ports); 124 Mount Joy Ave (1.2 km, 2 ports); 31 Roseheath 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, Feb 8, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The south leg carries the load — 3,896 northbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 369. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,177 vehicles in the hour from 4:15 p.m., 8% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (1,089). Heavy vehicles made up 3.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. 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 north3,608southbound · 5 bikes · 3.7% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles7,873234 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · 3.8% heavy
From the east369westbound · 0 bikes · 0.8% heavy
From the south3,896northbound · 5 bikes · 4.1% heavy
AM peak hour1,089 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,177 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 8, 2017

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 Coxwell Ave between Cosburn Ave and Plains Rd (361 m away) recorded an average of 40 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 48 km/h. That segment carries about 16,400 vehicles a day. Barker Ave between Coxwell Ave and Fairside Ave measured slower: 31 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Nov 2020). At the school-zone speed sign on Coxwell Ave (71 m away, 40 km/h limit), 7.9% of the 139,151 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Barker Ave · Coxwell Ave – Fairside Ave · 44 mNov 2020 · 3 days1,38331 km/h37 km/h40 km/h
Coxwell Ave · Cosburn Ave – Plains Rd · 361 mApr 2025 · 3 days16,39640 km/h48 km/h53 km/h

School-zone speed sign 71 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct39 · 47 km/h
Over the limit24%
50 km/h or more7.9%

Coxwell Ave (southbound), 845 Coxwell Avenue · 139,151 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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

2021 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 22% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 22% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 22% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Apr 22, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4394 of 5,508
With an injury2#3664 of 4,660
Property damage only5
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian2#1634 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201414latest Apr 22, 2025

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 one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 15, 2020. 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 Danforth East York.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Coxwell & Barker a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Coxwell & Barker?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Feb 8, 2017, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Coxwell & Barker?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Coxwell Ave between Cosburn Ave and Plains Rd (April 2025), found an average of 40 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 71 m away (40 km/h), 7.9% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Coxwell & Barker?

The nearest Green P car park is 850 Coxwell Ave (152 m away, 18 spaces, 62% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 437 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,660 spaces — 30 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1612 Danforth Ave. (1.0 km).

How do I get to Coxwell & Barker by transit?

Coxwell Station (Line 2) is 897 m away; bus routes 70, 62, 404, 87, 8, 91, 93, 22 within 1 km (nearest stop: Coxwell Ave at Memorial Park Ave South Side, 17 m).

What restaurants are near Coxwell & Barker?

20 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 65 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Abdul Rassul (134 m), Annina's Temptations Inc (134 m), Blazej Brzozowski Hot Dog Cart (134 m), Cheese Headz (134 m) and Didi Grill (134 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 Coxwell & Barker?

The nearest is East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Avenue, 134 m away (Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Dieppe Park Washroom (611 m); Dieppe Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (720 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 Coxwell & Barker?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,303 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) (143 m, 57 spaces), McGregor Jr YMCA (215 m, 251 spaces) and Centennial College East York Day Care (Plains Rd) (502 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Coxwell & Barker?

Seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 198 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 611 Cosburn Ave (245 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 494 Mortimer Ave (384 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 470 Mortimer Ave (464 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 831 Cosburn Ave (801 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 81). The average RentSafeTO score across the 7 is 84 out of 100. 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 Coxwell & Barker?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. 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 Danforth East York page.

What neighbourhood is Coxwell & Barker in?

Coxwell & Barker is in Danforth East York (City of Toronto neighbourhood 059). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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