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Dewson & Havelock

Dewson St & Havelock St · Toronto, Ontario · Dufferin Grove · Ward 9, Davenport

Dewson & Havelock, in Dufferin Grove, in central Toronto, is a low-volume local intersection, with more people on foot than in cars and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a bike lane and a park at the corner. Nearby: Dufferin Station (Line 2) 652 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
378
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 18, 2024
457 pedestrians · 686 cyclists · #2387 busiest
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 8 property damage · #4306 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Dufferin Station 652 m · 2 streetcar routes · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow, Sharrows
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 30 vehicles an hour, 2% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.2 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 181.5% of vehicle volume, about 234× the typical share. On average 1 collision a year was reported here in 2016–2025 — 26.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 5.3× the median rate for counted intersections. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Dewson & Havelock

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)652 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)752 m
Streetcar
506505 nearest 293 m
TTC bus
29402639416147 nearest 245 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306305329363300
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Havelock St installed 2022; Sharrows on Dewson St installed 2015
Bike Share
Havelock St / Dewson St 17 m · 15 docks · 27 stations, 479 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 (28)
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 286 m
  • Dewson Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 514 m
  • The Orchard Montessori SchoolPrivate · 553 m
  • St Helen Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 599 m
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 635 m
  • Brock Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 657 m
  • and 22 more
Parks (29)
  • Dufferin Grove Park185 m
  • Salem Parkette647 m
  • Westmoreland Avenue Parkette669 m
  • Harrison-Dovercourt Parkette729 m
  • George Ben Park823 m
  • Susan Tibaldi Parkette860 m
  • and 23 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch564 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch826 m
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1.2 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 347 eating places within a kilometre — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Trillium Investment Group of Companies Inc, 115 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 347 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 53 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Trillium Investment Group of Companies Inc · 137 Havelock St115 mPassed, Mar 2026
Dufferin Grove Park - Club House Kitchen · 875 Dufferin St280 mPassed, May 2026
Bairrada Churrasqueira Grill and Patio · 1000 College St293 mPassed, Jun 2026
Bairrada Churrasqueira · 1002 College St296 mPassed, Jun 2026
Arabesque · 1068 College St304 mPassed, Aug 2026
St. Michael's House · 277 Rusholme Rd306 mPassed, Aug 2026
Lardo · 970 College St318 mPassed, Aug 2026
Gateau Ghost · 974 College St320 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 Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom, 219 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 106 m away at Dufferin Grove Park.

  • Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    219 m
  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    View outdoor rink hours
    302 m
  • Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom · 155 Roxton Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    867 m
Drinking water
Dufferin Grove Park drinking fountain · 106 m; Dufferin Grove Park drinking fountain · 226 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,332 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Westside Montessori School (211 m, 35 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,332 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 16
  • Westside Montessori School · 57 Sylvan Ave
    35 spaces · toddler, preschool
    211 m
  • Denisa Childcare · 1065 College St
    30 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    325 m
  • West End Jr YMCA · 931 College St
    85 spaces · toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    434 m
  • Dewson Street YMCA · 65 Concord Ave
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    514 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (592 m) and the nearest ambulance station 686 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 1.3 km140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 592 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 686 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

33 registered apartment buildings with 2,019 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1044 College St (261 m, 43 units, 3 storeys, built 1930), which scored 83 out of 100 at its September 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Four buildings of the 33 scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 48 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings33 · 2,019 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score83 average · 4 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202648 across the 33
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1044 College St · Hannah Property Management Ltd.433193083 · Sep 20260261 m
1 Havelock St · Havelock Apartments183190581 · Jul 20250279 m
1094 College St193195088 · Jul 20250326 m
46 Delaware Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes143200783 · Jul 20251347 m
919 Dufferin St · CLV Group11315197191 · Jul 20251364 m
323 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management22620196887 · Jun 202511385 m
34 Heydon Park Rd · Cogir Real Estate313192594 · Jul 20265397 m
410 Dovercourt Rd133193090 · Jul 20260436 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 lots714 lots · ≈20,950 spaces · 62.9 ha
Within 500 m27 lots · ≈1,640 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 1,206 spaces
EV charging (City)685 Dovercourt Rd · 472 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking11 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Bonar Pl · Surface411 m3471% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface616 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface630 m3763% (Q1 2026)
146 Harrison St · Surface748 m7968% (Q1 2026)
745 Ossington Ave · Surface857 m4667% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 85 m away, ≈7 spaces; 272 m away, ≈9 spaces; 303 m away, ≈4 spaces; 317 m away, ≈4 spaces; 330 m away, ≈8 spaces; 330 m away, ≈15 spaces. More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (885 m, 2 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (940 m, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (1.2 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 — 14-hour, Jun 18, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The east leg carries the load — 359 westbound vehicles, or 95% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 9. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 44 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 45 from 2:15 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.8% 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 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north9southbound · 186 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles378457 pedestrians · 686 cyclists · 5.8% heavy
From the east359westbound · 270 bikes · 6.1% heavy
From the south10northbound · 230 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour44 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour45 vehicles from 2:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jun 18, 2024

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 Havelock St between Lindsey Ave and Sylvan Ave (91 m away) recorded an average of 24 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 33 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. Dewson St between Bill Cameron Lane and Rusholme Rd measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 32 km/h (Sep 2025). The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 3 speed humps slow traffic on Dewson Street between Havelock St and Dovercourt Rd.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Havelock St · Lindsey Ave – Sylvan Ave · 91 mNov 2022 · 3 days47924 km/h33 km/h38 km/h
Dewson St · Bill Cameron Lane – Rusholme Rd · 146 mSep 2025 · 3 days1,18323 km/h32 km/h35 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Dewson Street · Havelock St – Dovercourt Rd
    3 speed humps

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

2016 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 25, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 26.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4306 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only8
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201413latest Oct 25, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Apr 28, 2008.

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 two thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft200house driveway/garage (1), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 24, 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 Dufferin Grove.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dewson & Havelock a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 Dewson & Havelock?

A low-volume local intersection. It ranks #2387 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 2% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Dewson & Havelock?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Havelock St between Lindsey Ave and Sylvan Ave (November 2022), found an average of 24 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Dewson & Havelock?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Bonar Pl (411 m away, 34 spaces, 71% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 714 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,950 spaces — 27 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (472 m).

How do I get to Dewson & Havelock by transit?

Dufferin Station (Line 2) is 652 m away; streetcar routes 506, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 293 m away; bus routes 29, 402, 63, 94, 161, 47, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Dewson & Havelock?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 347 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Trillium Investment Group of Companies Inc (115 m), Dufferin Grove Park - Club House Kitchen (280 m), Bairrada Churrasqueira Grill and Patio (293 m), Bairrada Churrasqueira (296 m) and Arabesque (304 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 Dewson & Havelock?

The nearest is Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom, 875 Dufferin St, 219 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (302 m); Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom (867 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 Dewson & Havelock?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,332 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Westside Montessori School (211 m, 35 spaces), Denisa Childcare (325 m, 30 spaces) and West End Jr YMCA (434 m, 85 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dewson & Havelock?

33 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,019 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1044 College St (261 m, 43 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 1 Havelock St (279 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 1094 College St (326 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 46 Delaware Ave (347 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 33 is 83 out of 100; 4 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 Dewson & Havelock?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and two 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 Dufferin Grove page.

What neighbourhood is Dewson & Havelock in?

Dewson & Havelock is in Dufferin Grove (City of Toronto neighbourhood 083). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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