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Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- Subway
- Fairbank Station (Line 5)755 m; Oakwood Station (Line 5)894 m
- TTC bus
- 291641434109639018400 nearest 16 m
- Express
- 929
- Blue Night
- 329334363
- Nearest stops
- 8 surface stops within 300 m — Dufferin St at Briar Hill Ave
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Castlefield Ave / Roselawn Ave 290 m · 15 docks · 8 stations, 143 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 (13)
- Sts Cosmas and Damian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 802 m
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 881 m
- Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 928 m
- Dante Alighieri Academy - Closed Til 2026English Separate · 1 km
- Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 1 km
- Regina Mundi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
- and 7 more
- Community centres
- Glen Long Community Centre777 m
- Fairbank Memorial Community Centre1.3 km
- Viewmount Community Centre1.3 km
- Parks (17)
- Dufferin Hill Park47 m
- J.t. Watson Parkette146 m
- Hillmount Parkette423 m
- Walter Saunders Memorial Park453 m
- Glen Long Park771 m
- Senator Peter Bosa Parkette1 km
- and 11 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch792 m
- Signal
- 1544, activated 1987 · SA2 · transit priority
Around the corner
Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node
Restaurants & food
There are 23 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 141 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Taste of Shawarma, 142 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Taste of Shawarma · 2488 Dufferin St | 142 m | Passed, Feb 2026 |
| Toronto Pho · 2473 Dufferin St | 162 m | Passed, Feb 2026 |
| Tim Hortons · 2700 Dufferin St | 166 m | Passed, Jan 2025 · 3 infractions |
| Heather's Kitchen · 2700 Dufferin St Unit-13 | 166 m | Passed, Jun 2026 |
| Sette Cucina · 2700 Dufferin St | 166 m | Passed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction |
| California Sandwiches · 2474 Dufferin St | 203 m | Passed, May 2026 |
| McDonald's · 2781 Dufferin St | 262 m | Passed, Jul 2026 |
| Belly Buster Submarines · 1121 Castlefield Ave | 270 m | Passed, Jul 2025 |
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 Glen Long Community Centre Washroom, 777 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 419 m away at Walter Saunders Memorial Park.
- Glen Long Community Centre Washroom · 35 Glen Long Ave
View centre hours777 m
- Drinking water
- Walter Saunders Memorial Park bottle filling station · 419 m; Hillmount Parkette drinking fountain · 437 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
Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 262 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plasp Sts. Cosmas and Damian C.s (802 m, 43 spaces, kindergarten, school age).
- Plasp Sts. Cosmas and Damian C.s · 111 Danesbury Ave
43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day802 m - Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre · 636 Glenholme Ave
41 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day881 m - Macaulay - Marlee Child Care Centre · 145 Marlee Ave
49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day897 m - Columbus Early Learning Centres - Regina Mundi · 60 Playfair Ave
129 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day1 km
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 341 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 13 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.
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
40 registered apartment buildings with 3,538 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, seven of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2495 Dufferin St (79 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 97 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 66 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 23 fire-code violations are open across them.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2495 Dufferin St | 15 | 3 | 1960 | 97 · Jul 2026 | 2 | 79 m |
| 1050 Castlefield Ave · Signet Group Inc | 64 | 5 | 1959 | 99 · Jun 2025 | 2 | 181 m |
| 1040 Castlefield Ave · Trivest Developments Corporation | 44 | 4 | 1959 | 76 · Jun 2025 | 1 | 223 m |
| 178 Locksley Ave | 24 | 3 | 1960 | 88 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 242 m |
| 1030 Castlefield Ave · Trivest Developments Corporation | 56 | 5 | 1956 | 89 · Jun 2025 | 1 | 257 m |
| 1090 Roselawn Ave · Accadia Apartments | 62 | 5 | 1960 | 97 · Sep 2025 | 0 | 288 m |
| 435 Glen Park Ave · Embee Properties Limited | 42 | 4 | 1962 | 96 · Dec 2025 | 0 | 624 m |
| 437 Glen Park Ave · Realstar | 43 | 4 | 1962 | 95 · Aug 2026 | 0 | 628 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
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Shortt St · Surface | 711 m | 138 | 27% (Q1 2026) |
| 1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface | 1.1 km | 20 | 41% (Q1 2026) |
| 995 Eglinton Ave W · Surface | 1.7 km | 33 | 42% (Q1 2026) |
| 2054 Dufferin St · Surface | 1.8 km | 49 | 25% (Q1 2026) |
| 2053 Dufferin Street · Surface | 1.8 km | 23 * | — |
Nearest lots: 53 m away, ≈7 spaces; 70 m away, ≈1,473 spaces; 87 m away, ≈14 spaces; 92 m away, ≈31 spaces; 125 m away, ≈78 spaces; 132 m away, ≈38 spaces.
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, Nov 26, 2024
The north leg carries the load — 11,287 southbound vehicles, or 47% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 569. Most cyclists arrived from the south (33 of 68). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,039 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,167 from 4:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 21 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
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 Dufferin St between Schell Ave and Beltline Trl (384 m away) recorded an average of 36 km/h in its 3-day count in May 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 48 km/h. That segment carries about 27,300 vehicles a day. Briar Hill Ave between Times Rd and Locksley Ave measured slower: 36 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 45 km/h (Feb 2002).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briar Hill Ave · Times Rd – Locksley Ave · 350 m | Feb 2002 · 24 h | 910 | 36 km/h | 45 km/h | 50 km/h |
| Dufferin St · Schell Ave – Beltline Trl · 384 m | May 2025 · 3 days | 27,257 | 36 km/h | 48 km/h | 54 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 13. 10% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 20 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 19% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 5% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 27, 2026.
By year
Exposure-adjusted: 4.3 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 104 | #1067 of 5,508 |
| With an injury | 10 | #1663 of 4,660 |
| Property damage only | 75 | |
| Fail to remain | 20 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 5 | #640 of 3,193 |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 0 | |
| With a fatality | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 18 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 5 | |
| All since 2014 | 125 | latest Jun 27, 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
Of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025, one was fatal. 2 pedestrians were among those hurt. The most recent was on Dec 13, 2023. Going back to 2006, the total is 3.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All KSI collisions | 2 | #202 of 1,505 |
| Fatal | 1 | #97 of 319 |
| Involving a pedestrian | 2 | #66 of 879 |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 0 | |
| In darkness | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 3 | latest Dec 13, 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
Toronto Police place 34 thefts from vehicles and four bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 6.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 3.8 a year. 91% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 34 | 11 | 0 | street/outdoor (31), commercial premises (2) |
| Bicycle theft | 4 | 0 | 0 | street/outdoor (2), apartment parking (1) |
Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 23, 2024. 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 Briar Hill-Belgravia.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Dufferin & Briar Hill a dangerous intersection?
It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#202 of 1,505), out of 104 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 & Briar Hill?
A moderately heavy crossing. It ranks #604 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.49× the median for a counted intersection.
How fast do cars go at Dufferin & Briar Hill?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Dufferin St between Schell Ave and Beltline Trl (May 2025), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Dufferin & Briar Hill?
The nearest Green P car park is 9 Shortt St (711 m away, 138 spaces, 27% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 760 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 59,760 spaces — 77 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (2.0 km).
How do I get to Dufferin & Briar Hill by transit?
Fairbank Station (Line 5) is 755 m away; bus routes 29, 164, 14, 34, 109, 63, 90, 18 and 2 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Dufferin St at Briar Hill Ave, 16 m).
What restaurants are near Dufferin & Briar Hill?
23 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 141 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Taste of Shawarma (142 m), Toronto Pho (162 m), Tim Hortons (166 m), Heather's Kitchen (166 m) and Sette Cucina (166 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 & Briar Hill?
The nearest is Glen Long Community Centre Washroom, 35 Glen Long Ave, 777 m away (View centre hours). 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 & Briar Hill?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 262 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plasp Sts. Cosmas and Damian C.s (802 m, 43 spaces), Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre (881 m, 41 spaces) and Macaulay - Marlee Child Care Centre (897 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Dufferin & Briar Hill?
40 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,538 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2495 Dufferin St (79 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 1050 Castlefield Ave (181 m, 64 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 1040 Castlefield Ave (223 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 76) and 178 Locksley Ave (242 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 40 is 88 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 & Briar Hill?
Toronto Police place 34 thefts from vehicles and four 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 Briar Hill-Belgravia page.
What neighbourhood is Dufferin & Briar Hill in?
Dufferin & Briar Hill is in Briar Hill-Belgravia (City of Toronto neighbourhood 108). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Nov 26, 2024.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through May 23, 2024.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 8 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations.
- Coordinates: 43.70234, -79.45212 · centreline node 13457938.