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Dufferin & Preston

Dufferin St & Preston Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Oakwood Village · Ward 9, Davenport

Dufferin & Preston is an above-average intersection for traffic. It sits in Oakwood Village. At the corner: parks. Nearby: Fairbank Station (Line 5) 538 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
13,179
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 13, 2004
90 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4284 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 2 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Fairbank Station 538 m · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,650 vehicles an hour, 1.43× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 146 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 1 collision a year was reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Dufferin & Preston

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)538 m; Oakwood Station (Line 5)840 m
TTC bus
29341616390 nearest 26 m
Express
929
Blue Night
329334363
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Dufferin St at Gibson St North Side; Dufferin St at Preston Rd South Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Vaughan Rd / Oakwood Ave 615 m · 11 docks · 8 stations, 148 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 (16)
  • Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 297 m
  • St John Bosco Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 308 m
  • Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 376 m
  • D'arcy McGee Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 457 m
  • Fairbank Memorial Community SchoolEnglish Public · 577 m
  • St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 586 m
  • and 10 more
Community centres
Parks (18)
  • Fairbank Memorial Park109 m
  • Marble Hill Parkette429 m
  • Senator Peter Bosa Parkette453 m
  • Charles Caccia Park545 m
  • Nairn Park799 m
  • Laughlin Park1 km
  • and 12 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch583 m
  • Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch944 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner, though there is 2 grocery and convenience stores; 131 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Lycee Francais de Toronto, 300 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2024.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 131 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 31 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Doce Minho Pastry & Bakery · 2189 Dufferin Stgrocery84 mPassed, Apr 2025 · 1 infraction
Doce Minho Pastry & Bakery · 2189 Dufferin Stgrocery84 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Lycee Francais de Toronto · 2327 Dufferin St300 mPassed, Apr 2024
Sol Nascente Restaurant · 2075 Dufferin St434 mPassed, Apr 2025
Cantina Minhoto · 2075 Dufferin St435 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Food Squad · 800 Vaughan Rdgrocery452 mPassed, Feb 2026
Epnigishmok Aboriginal Head Start · 20 Bansley Ave457 mPassed, Feb 2026
St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre · 20 Bansley Ave457 mPassed, Jul 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 Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 46 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 442 m away at Marble Hill Parkette (currently off).

  • Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom · 2213 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    46 m
Drinking water
Marble Hill Parkette drinking fountain · 442 m · off; Charles Caccia Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 540 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 296 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Lycee Francais de Toronto (297 m, 22 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 296 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 7
  • Lycee Francais de Toronto · 2327 Dufferin St
    22 spaces · preschool
    297 m
  • St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre · 20 Bansley Ave
    56 spaces · toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    457 m
  • Aboriginal Head Start - Epnigishmok · 20 Bansley Ave
    16 spaces · preschool
    457 m
  • Fairbank Memorial Day Care Centre · 555 Harvie Ave
    87 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    577 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 341 (699 m), the nearest police station 13 Division (1.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.0 km away.

FireFire Station 341 · 699 m555 Oakwood Ave
Police13 Division · 1.2 km1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 30 · 2 km100 Turnberry 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

Within a kilometre there are 39 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,258 rental units — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2208 Dufferin St (33 m, 18 units, 4 storeys, built 1959), which scored 89 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 54 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 12 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings39 · 2,258 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202654 across the 39
Open fire-code violations12
Tallest16 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2208 Dufferin St · 2204 - 2208 Dufferin Inc.184195989 · Jul 2025333 m
2204 Dufferin St · 2204 - 2208 Dufferin Inc.284195972 · Jul 2026458 m
65 Dynevor Rd · Hazelview Property Services Inc909196784 · Aug 2024394 m
620 Northcliffe Blvd · Hazelview Property Services Inc689196890 · Oct 20253300 m
640 Lauder Ave · R A B Properties Limited12910196576 · Nov 20252357 m
2339 Dufferin Stsocial housing · Woodgreen Community Services1201419763434 m
800 Vaughan Rdsocial housing · Woodgreen Community Service21016198292 · Aug 202614452 m
787 Vaughan Rd384197794 · Aug 20260474 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 lots641 lots · ≈29,770 spaces · 89.3 ha
Within 500 m45 lots · ≈940 spaces
Green P (public)20 car parks · about 825 spaces
EV charging (City)91 Via Italia · 1.6 km · 12 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
2054 Dufferin St · Surface498 m4925% (Q1 2026)
2053 Dufferin Street · Surface508 m23 *
9 Shortt St · Surface622 m13827% (Q1 2026)
406 Oakwood Ave · Surface791 m1757% (Q1 2026)
341 Oakwood Avenue · Surface1 km22 *

Nearest lots: 55 m away, ≈48 spaces; 66 m away, ≈28 spaces; 95 m away, ≈13 spaces; 112 m away, ≈22 spaces; 138 m away, ≈10 spaces; 151 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.9 km, 4 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 13, 2004

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 6,687 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 36 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 2,191 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 1,996 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Trucks and buses were 5.4% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 22 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2004, 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 north6,687southbound · 0 bikes · 5.4% heavy
From the west36eastbound · 0 bikes · 8.3% heavy
Total vehicles13,17990 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 5.4% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south6,456northbound · 0 bikes · 5.4% heavy
AM peak hour1,996 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,191 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 13, 2004

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 Dufferin St between Keywest Ave and Hunter Ave, 295 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in June 2024 put the average speed at 31 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 36 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 39 km/h or more. That segment carries about 27,000 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Dufferin St · Keywest Ave – Hunter Ave · 295 mJun 2024 · 24 h27,03931 km/h36 km/h39 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

The worst year was 2016, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 2 collisions (20%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 10% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 11, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4284 of 5,508
With an injury2#3684 of 4,660
Property damage only7
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 201412latest Dec 11, 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. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Jan 4, 2011.

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

Three thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle320house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 20, 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 Oakwood Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dufferin & Preston 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 Dufferin & Preston?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Apr 13, 2004, 1.43× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Dufferin & Preston?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Dufferin St between Keywest Ave and Hunter Ave (June 2024), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 36 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Dufferin & Preston?

The nearest Green P car park is 2054 Dufferin St (498 m away, 49 spaces, 25% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 641 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 29,770 spaces — 45 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 91 Via Italia (1.6 km).

How do I get to Dufferin & Preston by transit?

Fairbank Station (Line 5) is 538 m away; bus routes 29, 34, 161, 63, 90, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Dufferin St at Gibson St North Side, 26 m).

What restaurants are near Dufferin & Preston?

None within 300 m, and 131 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Lycee Francais de Toronto (300 m), Sol Nascente Restaurant (434 m), Cantina Minhoto (435 m), Epnigishmok Aboriginal Head Start (457 m) and St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre (457 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 & Preston?

The nearest is Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 2213 Dufferin St, 46 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 & Preston?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 296 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Lycee Francais de Toronto (297 m, 22 spaces), St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre (457 m, 56 spaces) and Aboriginal Head Start - Epnigishmok (457 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dufferin & Preston?

39 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,258 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2208 Dufferin St (33 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 2204 Dufferin St (58 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 65 Dynevor Rd (94 m, 90 units, RentSafeTO score 84) and 620 Northcliffe Blvd (300 m, 68 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 39 is 85 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 & Preston?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles 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 Oakwood Village page.

What neighbourhood is Dufferin & Preston in?

Dufferin & Preston is in Oakwood Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 107). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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