Toronto · intersection · signal 1652

Dufferin & Auburn

Dufferin St & Auburn Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Corso Italia-Davenport · Ward 9, Davenport

Dufferin & Auburn is a moderately heavy crossing. It sits in Corso Italia-Davenport. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: 12 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
11,907
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 12, 2016
733 pedestrians · 20 cyclists
Collisions
32
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
6 with an injury · 20 property damage · #2696 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #825 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 6 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 1,490 vehicles, 1.29× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 16 vehicles, close to the citywide median. That comes with about 3.2 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions edged down 12%, from 17 in 2016–2020 to 15 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 32 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Dufferin & Auburn

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 276 m
TTC bus
29127631614726 nearest 12 m
Express
929
Blue Night
312329340363
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Dufferin St at Auburn Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Regal Rd / Dufferin St 193 m · 15 docks · 13 stations, 237 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 (20)
  • Loretto College SchoolEnglish Separate · 96 m
  • Regal Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 255 m
  • St Mary of the Angels Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 407 m
  • St Clare Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 432 m
  • Hudson CollegePrivate · 501 m
  • Stella Maris Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 507 m
  • and 14 more
Parks (32)
  • Santa Chiara Parkette - Anne Marie D'amico Square353 m
  • Chandos Park North497 m
  • Beaver - Lightbourn Parkette520 m
  • Chandos Park South534 m
  • Brandon Avenue Parkette569 m
  • Primrose Avenue Parkette571 m
  • and 26 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Dufferin/St. Clair branch165 m
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch1.3 km
Signal
1652, activated 1993 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/West · transit priority

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 23 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 182 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The B More Panini Shop, 24 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2025.

Restaurants & cafés23 within 300 m · 182 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 26 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The B More Panini Shop · 1602 Dufferin St, Flr-Main24 mPassed, Jun 2025
7-Eleven · 1169 St Clair Ave Wgrocery250 mPassed, Sep 2025
7-Eleven · 1169 St Clair Ave Wgrocery251 mPassed, Jul 2026
La Casa de La Abuela · 1165 St Clair Ave W256 mPassed, Aug 2026
Los Reyes Del Sazon · 1165 St Clair Ave W256 mPassed, Jun 2025
Al Chile · 1165 St Clair Ave W256 mPassed, Dec 2024 · 2 infractions
Papa's Burger · 1165 St Clair Ave W256 mPassed, May 2025
La Morena · 1175a St Clair Ave W256 mPassed, Apr 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 Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre Washroom, 754 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 351 m away at Santa Chiara Parkette - Anne Marie D'amico Square.

  • Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre Washroom · 1369 St. Clair Ave W
    View centre hours
    754 m
  • Earlscourt Park Washroom · 1200 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    778 m
  • Giovanni Caboto Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 1367 St. Clair Ave W
    View the facility hours
    812 m
Drinking water
Santa Chiara Parkette - Anne Marie D'amico Square drinking fountain, dog fountain · 351 m; Chandos Park North drinking fountain · 529 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

11 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,072 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Ascot Avenue Community Day Care (255 m, 183 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km11 centres · 1,072 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 11
  • Ascot Avenue Community Day Care · 95 Regal Rd
    183 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    255 m
  • Little Angels Childcare Learning Centre · 1695 Dufferin St
    85 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    354 m
  • Harmony Childcare Centre · 124 Northcliffe Blvd
    165 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    432 m
  • Chabad of Midtown · 1034 St Clair Ave W
    96 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    502 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 342 (676 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.8 km away.

FireFire Station 342 · 676 m106 Ascot Ave
Police11 Division · 1.6 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 1.8 km760 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

Within a kilometre there are 24 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,422 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 97 Northcliffe Blvd (321 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1910), which scored 95 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 31 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings24 · 1,422 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score86 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202631 across the 24
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest21 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
97 Northcliffe Blvd103191095 · Jul 20250321 m
1095 St Clair Ave W113195193 · Jul 20260328 m
109 Glenholme Ave · Anchor Property Managers Inc153193075 · Jul 20240452 m
966 St Clair Ave W · 966 St Clair Holdings Inc114194083 · Aug 20260640 m
331 Bartlett Ave NToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation133190574 · Sep 20240644 m
2 Regal Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management1048195595 · Jul 20257698 m
927 St Clair Ave W · Ga Investments234192990 · Aug 20260727 m
10 Mount Royal Ave · 741476 Ontario Inc123191382 · Jun 20250729 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 lots624 lots · ≈19,200 spaces · 57.6 ha
Within 500 m48 lots · ≈610 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 772 spaces
EV charging (City)91 Via Italia · 288 m · 12 Level 2 ports
Bike parking40 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
94 Northcliffe Blvd · Surface277 m1380% (Q1 2026)
91 Via Italia · Garage291 m16929% (Q1 2026)
7 Norton Ave · Surface345 m6260% (Q1 2026)
154 Westmount Avenue · Surface374 m14 *
141 Greenlaw Ave · Surface461 m5445% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 74 m away, ≈43 spaces; 112 m away, ≈6 spaces; 129 m away, ≈15 spaces; 154 m away, ≈5 spaces; 178 m away, ≈8 spaces; 193 m away, ≈4 spaces. More EV charging: 580 Christie St (1.5 km, 2 ports); 273 Christie St (1.8 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, Apr 12, 2016

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 5,873 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 537 from the west. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,673 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 1,769 from 4:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2016, 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 north5,873southbound · 15 bikes · 4.2% heavy
From the west537eastbound · 1 bikes · 1.1% heavy
Total vehicles11,907733 pedestrians · 20 cyclists · 4.5% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south5,497northbound · 4 bikes · 5.1% heavy
AM peak hour1,673 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour1,769 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 12, 2016

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

On Auburn Ave between Dufferin St and Via Italia, 107 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in February 2013 put the average speed at 36 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 45 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. The reading is 13 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Auburn Ave · Dufferin St – Via Italia · 107 mFeb 2013 · 24 h83436 km/h45 km/h49 km/h
Dufferin St · Lane S of St Clair and E of Dufferin – St Clair Ave W · 256 mJul 2017 · 2 days12,674

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

The worst year was 2019, with 7 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 6 collisions (19%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 19% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 13, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions32#2696 of 5,508
With an injury6#2427 of 4,660
Property damage only20
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian2#1669 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#1753 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201437latest Apr 13, 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

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. It involved vehicle occupants only — no pedestrian or cyclist. It happened in darkness. The most recent was on Jan 22, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#825 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20061latest Jan 22, 2023

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

One theft from a vehicle and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Nov 26, 2016. 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 Corso Italia-Davenport.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dufferin & Auburn a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#825 of 1,505), out of 32 reported collisions of any severity. 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 Dufferin & Auburn?

A moderately heavy crossing. Its latest count is from Apr 12, 2016, 1.29× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Dufferin & Auburn?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Auburn Ave between Dufferin St and Via Italia (February 2013), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 45 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Dufferin & Auburn?

The nearest Green P car park is 94 Northcliffe Blvd (277 m away, 13 spaces, 80% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 624 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 19,200 spaces — 48 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 91 Via Italia (288 m).

How do I get to Dufferin & Auburn by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 276 m away; bus routes 29, 127, 63, 161, 47, 26, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Dufferin St at Auburn Ave, 12 m).

What restaurants are near Dufferin & Auburn?

23 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 182 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The B More Panini Shop (24 m), La Casa de La Abuela (256 m), Los Reyes Del Sazon (256 m), Al Chile (256 m) and Papa's Burger (256 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 Dufferin & Auburn?

The nearest is Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre Washroom, 1369 St. Clair Ave W, 754 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Earlscourt Park Washroom (778 m); Giovanni Caboto Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom (812 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 Dufferin & Auburn?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,072 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Ascot Avenue Community Day Care (255 m, 183 spaces), Little Angels Childcare Learning Centre (354 m, 85 spaces) and Harmony Childcare Centre (432 m, 165 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dufferin & Auburn?

24 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,422 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 97 Northcliffe Blvd (321 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 1095 St Clair Ave W (328 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 109 Glenholme Ave (452 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 75) and 966 St Clair Ave W (640 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 24 is 86 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 Dufferin & Auburn?

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 Corso Italia-Davenport page.

What neighbourhood is Dufferin & Auburn in?

Dufferin & Auburn is in Corso Italia-Davenport (City of Toronto neighbourhood 092). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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