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Danforth & Ellerbeck

Danforth Ave & Ellerbeck St · Toronto, Ontario · Playter Estates-Danforth · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth · Broadview Danforth BIA

Danforth & Ellerbeck, in Playter Estates-Danforth, is an above-average intersection for traffic. It has Broadview Station, a protected bikeway and a park at the corner.

Traffic volume
11,619
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 23, 2002
1,902 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
86
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
19 with an injury · 46 property damage · #1287 of 5,508 · +3 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
Broadview Station
subway station within 250 m
2 streetcar routes · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 38 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,450 vehicles, 1.26× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 6 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Police have logged an average of 8.6 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. The pace has been steady: 43 collisions in 2016–2020 and 43 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Danforth & Ellerbeck

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Broadview Station (Line 2)141 m; Chester Station (Line 2)359 m; Pape Station (Line 2)916 m; Castle Frank Station (Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
505504 nearest 144 m
TTC bus
862258772100 nearest 136 m
Express
925
Blue Night
304305300322325
Nearest stops
17 surface stops within 300 m — Danforth Ave at Playter Blvd
Cycling
Cycle Track on Danforth Ave installed 2020
Bike Share
Danforth Ave / Ellerbeck St 49 m · 15 docks · 12 stations, 244 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 (17)
  • City Adult Learning CentreEnglish Public · 353 m
  • Montcrest Elementary SchoolPrivate · 408 m
  • Jackman Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 484 m
  • Frankland Community SchoolEnglish Public · 544 m
  • Holy Name Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 738 m
  • Withrow Ave Jr & Quest Alternative SrEnglish Public · 772 m
  • and 11 more
Community centres
Parks (27)
  • Broadview Subway Station Parkette172 m
  • Playter Gardens345 m
  • Logan Avenue Parkette518 m
  • Logan Green Field620 m
  • Riverdale Park East739 m
  • Withrow Park802 m
  • and 21 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Riverdale branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • The Danforth Music HallPerforming Arts · 69 m
  • Riverdale Park (East and West)Nature/ Park · 921 m
  • Evergreen Brick WorksAttraction · 1.1 km
  • Todmorden Mills Heritage SiteLandmark · 1.1 km
  • Riverdale FarmAttraction · 1.2 km
  • Winchester Street TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.4 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 50 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores, and 155 eating places within a kilometre — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Zed 80, 25 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés50 within 300 m · 155 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 18 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Zed 80 · 185 Danforth Ave25 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
The Factory Girl · 193 Danforth Ave28 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Gelateo Cafe · 189 Danforth Ave32 mPassed, Mar 2026
Dough Bake Shop · 173 Danforth Avegrocery40 mPassed, Feb 2026
The Meat Department · 207 Danforth Avegrocery47 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Shoppers Drug Mart · 180 Danforth Avegrocery54 mPassed, Dec 2023 · 1 infraction
Sidebar · 161 Danforth Ave54 mPassed, May 2026
Subway · 232 Danforth Ave77 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions

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 Riverdale Park East Outdoor Rink / Pool Washroom, 465 m away, View facility hours. A drinking fountain is 474 m away at Riverdale Park East.

  • Riverdale Park East Outdoor Rink / Pool Washroom · 550 Broadview Ave
    View facility hours
    465 m
  • Withrow Park North Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    723 m
  • Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    833 m
Drinking water
Riverdale Park East bottle filling station · 474 m; Riverdale Park East drinking fountain · 495 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,058 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Children's Circle of St. Barnabas (335 m, 152 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km9 centres · 1,058 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 9
  • Children's Circle of St. Barnabas · 361 Danforth Ave
    152 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    335 m
  • Pat Schulz Child Care Centre · 1 Danforth Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    353 m
  • Jackman Community Daycare · 79 Jackman Ave
    242 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    484 m
  • Bluebird Montessori School (Mini) · 905 Broadview Ave
    55 spaces · infant, toddler · $10-a-day
    510 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 324 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 51 Division (2.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.8 km away.

FireFire Station 324 · 1.4 km840 Gerrard St E
Police51 Division · 2.8 km51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceEMS TRAINING/TFD Stn 323 · 1.8 km153 Chatham 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

25 registered apartment buildings with 2,165 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 717 Broadview Ave (189 m, 69 units, 8 storeys, built 1972), which scored 98 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 25 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 28 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings25 · 2,165 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202628 across the 25
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
717 Broadview AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation698197298 · Aug 20260189 m
778 Broadview Ave · Sterling Karamar Property Management393192986 · Aug 20261223 m
812 Broadview Ave · Trivest Developments Corporation243195069 · Nov 20251233 m
814 Broadview Ave · Trivest Developments Corporation243195083 · Jun 20241244 m
818 Broadview Ave · Tobis Investments Inc.313195091 · Aug 20260251 m
80 Danforth AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1315197895 · Aug 20264272 m
846-850 Broadview Ave233194069 · Aug 20260299 m
655 Broadview Ave · M&r Property Management29124196891 · Jul 20261306 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 lots635 lots · ≈15,900 spaces · 47.7 ha
Within 500 m73 lots · ≈1,470 spaces
Green P (public)18 car parks · about 771 spaces
EV charging (City)35 Erindale Ave · 126 m · 4 Level 2 + 6 fast ports
Bike parking117 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
35 Erindale Ave · Surface111 m9470% (Q1 2026)
242 Danforth Ave · Surface131 m1978% (Q1 2026)
838 Broadview Ave · Surface283 m1176% (Q1 2026)
14 Arundel Ave · Surface462 m3763% (Q1 2026)
18 Ferrier Ave · Surface662 m2358% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 37 m away, ≈4 spaces; 45 m away, ≈10 spaces; 55 m away, ≈13 spaces; 81 m away, ≈6 spaces; 83 m away, ≈17 spaces; 101 m away, ≈83 spaces (Green P). More EV charging: 14 Arundel Ave. (453 m, 8 ports); 41 FULTON AVE (626 m, 2 ports); 503 Jones 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, Sep 23, 2002

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 6,197 westbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 4. Morning rush is the busier period: 1,957 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 1,617 from 4:45 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.0% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 24 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2002, 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 north4southbound · 0 bikes · 50.0% heavy
From the west5,418eastbound · 0 bikes · 5.4% heavy
Total vehicles11,6191,902 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 5.0% heavy
From the east6,197westbound · 0 bikes · 4.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,957 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,617 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 23, 2002

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 Ellerbeck St between Pretoria Ave and Butternut St (287 m away) recorded an average of 36 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2012; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. Danforth Ave between Playter Blvd and Bowden St measured slower: 28 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Apr 2025). The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Danforth Ave · Playter Blvd – Bowden St · 153 mApr 2025 · 7 days16,03328 km/h38 km/h44 km/h
Ellerbeck St · Pretoria Ave – Butternut St · 287 mNov 2012 · 3 days75936 km/h43 km/h48 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 (14 collisions), and 2025 closed with 11. 22% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 24 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 28% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 16% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 17, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions86#1287 of 5,508
With an injury19#913 of 4,660
Property damage only46
Fail to remain24
Involving a pedestrian3#1193 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist11#110 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified21
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 2014105latest Jun 17, 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 seven thefts from vehicles and eight bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 6 in 2023–2025, about 2.0 a year, against 1.3 a year before that. 57% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 38% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle720street/outdoor (4), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft840street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (3)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 19, 2025. 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 Playter Estates-Danforth.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Danforth & Ellerbeck a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 86 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 Danforth & Ellerbeck?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Sep 23, 2002, 1.26× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Danforth & Ellerbeck?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ellerbeck St between Pretoria Ave and Butternut St (November 2012), found an average of 36 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 Danforth & Ellerbeck?

The nearest Green P car park is 35 Erindale Ave (111 m away, 94 spaces, 70% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 635 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 15,900 spaces — 73 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 35 Erindale Ave (126 m).

How do I get to Danforth & Ellerbeck by transit?

Broadview Station (Line 2) is 141 m away; streetcar routes 505, 504 stop within 1 km, the nearest 144 m away; bus routes 8, 62, 25, 87, 72, 100, 925 within 1 km (nearest stop: Danforth Ave at Playter Blvd, 136 m).

What restaurants are near Danforth & Ellerbeck?

50 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 155 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Zed 80 (25 m), The Factory Girl (28 m), Gelateo Cafe (32 m), Sidebar (54 m) and Subway (77 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 Danforth & Ellerbeck?

The nearest is Riverdale Park East Outdoor Rink / Pool Washroom, 550 Broadview Ave, 465 m away (View facility hours). Next nearest: Withrow Park North Washroom (723 m); Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (833 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 Danforth & Ellerbeck?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,058 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Children's Circle of St. Barnabas (335 m, 152 spaces), Pat Schulz Child Care Centre (353 m, 49 spaces) and Jackman Community Daycare (484 m, 242 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Danforth & Ellerbeck?

25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,165 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 717 Broadview Ave (189 m, 69 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 778 Broadview Ave (223 m, 39 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 812 Broadview Ave (233 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 69) and 814 Broadview Ave (244 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 25 is 88 out of 100; 3 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 Danforth & Ellerbeck?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and eight 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 Playter Estates-Danforth page.

What neighbourhood is Danforth & Ellerbeck in?

Danforth & Ellerbeck is in Playter Estates-Danforth (City of Toronto neighbourhood 067). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher. The corner falls inside the Broadview Danforth Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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