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Dufferin & Bloor

Dufferin St & Bloor St W · Toronto, Ontario · Dufferin Grove · Ward 9, Davenport

Dufferin & Bloor is a moderately heavy crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in Dufferin Grove, in central Toronto. It has a live City traffic camera, Dufferin Station and a protected bikeway at the corner. It is among the fifty worst in the city for killed-or-seriously-injured collisions.

Traffic
24,664
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jul 25, 2026
14,484 pedestrians · 3,798 cyclists · #589 busiest
Collisions
518
police-reported · 2016–2025
4 killed or seriously injured · #117 of 5,519
Getting there
Dufferin Station
subway station within 250 m
16 routes within 1 km · protected bikeway
Within a walk
83/100
city median 48 · #214 of 5,672
31 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 145 m

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Dufferin & Bloor

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Live traffic camera RESCU 8050 · 17 m

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Live camera RESCU 8050 · Dufferin St & Bloor St W
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Live camera · RESCU 8050 · Dufferin St & Bloor St W
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Traffic volume14-hour count · Jul 25, 2026 · weekend

The south leg carries the load — 7,388 northbound vehicles, or 30% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 4,980. Most cyclists arrived from the east (1,713 of 3,798). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 2,157 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 25% above the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. (1,732). Heavy vehicles made up 2.7% 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 recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north6,455southbound · 240 bikes · 4.2% heavy
From the west5,841eastbound · 1,701 bikes · 1.0% heavy
Total vehicles24,66414,484 pedestrians · 3,798 cyclists · 2.7% heavy
From the east4,980westbound · 1,713 bikes · 1.2% heavy
From the south7,388northbound · 144 bikes · 3.9% heavy

Peak hours: 1,732 vehicles in the hour from 9:30 a.m. and 2,157 from 4:45 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

2017 was the peak year (66 collisions), and 2025 closed with 39. 12% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 87 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 7% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 39 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 30, 2026.

None of the four serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 pedestrian and 3 cyclists were among those hurt. 1 of the 4 happened in darkness — 25%, below the citywide 39%. 2025 alone accounted for 2 of them. The most recent was on Jul 18, 2025. Going back to 2006, the total is 7.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions518#117 of 5,519
With an injury64#150 of 4,669
Property damage only381
Fail to remain87
Involving a pedestrian13#121 of 3,196
Involving a cyclist22#13 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist3
Severity not classified73
Since January 2026 (outside the window)39
Killed or seriously injured4#37 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist3#2 of 271
In darkness125% here vs 39% citywide
All KSI since 20067latest Jul 18, 2025

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 Dufferin St between Dufferin Grove Park Trl and Dufferin Park Ave (321 m away) recorded an average of 36 km/h in its 3-day count in March 2026; 85% of drivers were at or under 46 km/h. That segment carries about 20,900 vehicles a day. Bloor St W between Westmoreland Ave and Rusholme Rd measured slower: 33 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 43 km/h (Jun 2022).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Dufferin St · Dufferin Grove Park Trl – Dufferin Park Ave · 321 mMar 2026 · 3 days20,88336 km/h46 km/h51 km/h
Bloor St W · Westmoreland Ave – Rusholme Rd · 383 mJun 2022 · 7 days10,98933 km/h43 km/h49 km/h

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 0325, activated 1929 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval East/West · transit priority

Getting there

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

Transit and cycling

Subway
Dufferin Station (Line 2)83 m; Lansdowne Station (Line 2)658 m · 8 min; Ossington Station (Line 2)694 m · 8 min
Streetcar
512 506 nearest 703 m · 8 min
TTC bus
402 29 161 47 63 94 nearest 16 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306 300 329 363
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Dufferin St; Dufferin St at Bloor St West - Dufferin Station
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020
Bike Share
Bloor St W / Gladstone Ave - SMART 103 m · 12 docks · 16 stations, 293 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
12 car parks · about 629 spaces
EV charging
685 Dovercourt Rd · 678 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 705 Shaw St (1.2 km), 2285 Dundas St W (1.6 km)
Bike parking
95 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 34 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
35 mapped lots within 500 m, 427 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface263 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface356 m3374% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface436 m4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface693 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
745 Ossington Ave · Surface870 m4667% (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: Economy Fruit Market is 145 m away. Two specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Panchos Bakery at 46 m. There are 31 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 184 eating places within a kilometre — 4.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Coco, 2 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Main Drug Mart, 157 m away, one of two within 300 m. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: New Horizons Tower, a retirement home 49 m away. La Centre For Active Seniors - Rankin Apartments runs a seniors' active living programme 941 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Coco · 1011 Dufferin St2 m
  • Los Cantaritos · 1009 Dufferin St34 m
  • A & W Restaurant · 1115 Bloor St W Unit-451 m
  • Popeyes Chicken and Seafood · 1115 Bloor St W51 m
  • Tierra Azteca · 1115 Bloor St W51 m
31 within 300 m · 184 within 1 km
Grocery
Economy Fruit Market 145 m · 9 within 1 km
Food shops
Panchos Bakery 46 m · 2 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
4 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Main Drug Mart 157 m · 9 within 1 km
Child care
  • PLASP Pauline Junior Public School · 28 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day575 m · 7 min
  • Westside Montessori School · 35 spaces, toddler, preschool711 m · 8 min
  • Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre · 106 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day721 m · 9 min
9 licensed centres · 473 spaces within 1 km · 6 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · hours not listed381 m · 5 min
  • Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible531 m · 6 min
Drinking water: Susan Tibaldi Parkette 408 m · 5 min; Salem Parkette 468 m · 6 min
Health and care
  • New Horizons Tower · retirement home49 m
  • La Centre For Active Seniors - Rankin Apartments · seniors' active living centre941 m · 11 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 (18)
and 13 more within 1.5 km
Schools (16)
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 135 m
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 479 m · 6 min
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 541 m · 6 min
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 575 m · 7 min
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 714 m · 9 min
and 11 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch130 m

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.

83of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #214 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 · 31 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit28/28

    Dufferin Station · 7 stops within 300 m · 16 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 130 m away

  • Parks and recreation7/10

    3 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care5/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 9 licensed child cares within 1 km

  • Crossing on foot8/10

    traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals

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

15 registered apartment buildings with 1,463 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1121 Bloor St W (39 m, 11 units, 4 storeys, built 1926), which scored 90 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 15 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
1121 Bloor St W · Charles Dieu114192690 · Jul 202539 m
919 Dufferin St · CLV Group11315197191 · Jul 2025295 m · 4 min
1212 Bloor St W163192379 · Jul 2025301 m · 4 min
1019 Bloor St W · Donros Developments Limited263192863 · Jul 2026383 m · 5 min
357 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management26716196995 · Jul 2026489 m · 6 min
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 2025581 m · 7 min

15 registered buildings · 1,463 units · 2 social housing · tallest 20 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 nine thefts from vehicles and 19 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 4.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 6 in 2023–2025, about 2.0 a year, against 3.1 a year before that. 89% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 37% of the bike thefts were from transit property.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle910street/outdoor (8), commercial premises (1)
Bicycle theft1950transit property (7), street/outdoor (5)

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 Dufferin & Bloor a dangerous intersection?

By serious injuries, yes: it ranks #37 of 1,505 for killed-or-seriously-injured collisions in 2016–2025. 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 & Bloor?

A moderately heavy crossing. It ranks #589 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.52× the median for a counted intersection, and #130 for pedestrians.

Is Dufferin & Bloor a walkable intersection?

Dufferin & Bloor scores 83 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #214 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: Dufferin Station · 7 stops within 300 m · 16 routes within 1 km; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 31 places to eat within 300 m; 3 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals.

How fast do cars go at Dufferin & Bloor?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Dufferin St between Dufferin Grove Park Trl and Dufferin Park Ave (March 2026), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 46 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Dufferin & Bloor?

The nearest Green P car park is 7 Bartlett Ave (263 m away, 37 spaces, 63% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 427 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,440 spaces — 35 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (678 m).

How do I get to Dufferin & Bloor by transit?

Dufferin Station (Line 2) is 83 m away; streetcar routes 512, 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 703 m away; bus routes 402, 29, 161, 47, 63, 94, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Dufferin St, 16 m).

What restaurants are near Dufferin & Bloor?

31 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 184 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Coco (2 m), Los Cantaritos (34 m), A & W Restaurant (51 m), Popeyes Chicken and Seafood (51 m) and Tierra Azteca (51 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Dufferin & Bloor?

The nearest is Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 875 Dufferin St, 381 m away. Next nearest: Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom (531 m); Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom (925 m).

Is there child care near Dufferin & Bloor?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 473 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are PLASP Pauline Junior Public School (575 m, 28 spaces), Westside Montessori School (711 m, 35 spaces) and Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre (721 m, 106 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dufferin & Bloor?

15 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,463 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1121 Bloor St W (39 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 919 Dufferin St (295 m, 113 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1212 Bloor St W (301 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79) and 1019 Bloor St W (383 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 63). The average RentSafeTO score across the 15 is 84 out of 100; 2 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Dufferin & Bloor?

Toronto Police place nine thefts from vehicles and 19 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dufferin Grove page.

What neighbourhood is Dufferin & Bloor in?

Dufferin & Bloor is in Dufferin Grove (City of Toronto neighbourhood 083). 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