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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · 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 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 23 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.
Peak hours: 1,996 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,191 from 5:00 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
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.
No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Jan 4, 2011.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 10 | |
| With an injury | 2 | |
| Property damage only | 7 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 1 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 2 | latest Jan 4, 2011 |
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
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 segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dufferin St · Keywest Ave – Hunter Ave · 295 m | Jun 2024 · 24 h | 27,039 | 31 km/h | 36 km/h | 39 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.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Subway
- Fairbank Station (Line 5)608 m · 7 min
- TTC bus
- 29 34 161 63 90 nearest 26 m
- Express
- 929
- Blue Night
- 329 334 363
- 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
- 1 Shortt St 729 m · 9 min · 39 docks · 3 stations, 65 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
- 11 car parks · about 581 spaces
- EV charging
- 91 Via Italia · 1.8 km · 12 Level 2 ports
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 26 mapped lots within 500 m, 397 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2054 Dufferin St · Surface | 509 m | 49 | 25% (Q1 2026) |
| 2053 Dufferin Street · Surface | 513 m | 23 * | — |
| 9 Shortt St · Surface | 724 m | 138 | 27% (Q1 2026) |
| 406 Oakwood Ave · Surface | 1.2 km | 17 | 57% (Q1 2026) |
| 1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface | 1.3 km | 20 | 41% (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
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Family Supermarket and Meat Store, 645 m away. A specialist food shop is closer still: Doce Minho Pastry & Bakery, 97 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 66 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Brazilian Pizza Factory, 403 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Dufferin Medical Pharmacy, 532 m away; 6 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. York - Fairbank Centre For Seniors runs a seniors' active living programme 38 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Brazilian Pizza Factory · 32 Hatherley Rd403 m · 5 min
- Sol Nascente Restaurant · 2075 Dufferin St445 m · 5 min
- Cantina Minhoto · 2075 Dufferin St445 m · 5 min
- Branzy's Chill N Grill · 2056 Dufferin St Flr-N/A480 m · 6 min
- Frenzline Sport Bar & Grill · 2346 Dufferin St512 m · 6 min
- Grocery
- Family Supermarket and Meat Store 645 m · 8 min · 4 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Doce Minho Pastry & Bakery 97 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Dufferin Medical Pharmacy 532 m · 6 min · 6 within 1 km
- Child care
- Lycee Francais de Toronto · 22 spaces, preschool333 m · 4 min
- St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre · 56 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day737 m · 9 min
- Aboriginal Head Start - Epnigishmok · 16 spaces, preschool737 m · 9 min
- Washrooms
- Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed46 m
- Health and care
- York - Fairbank Centre For Seniors · seniors' active living centre38 m
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 (12)
- Fairbank Memorial Park153 m
- Senator Peter Bosa Parkette643 m · 8 min
- Charles Caccia Park707 m · 8 min
- Marble Hill Parkette719 m · 9 min
- Nairn Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Community centres
- Schools (10)
- Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 333 m · 4 min
- Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 417 m · 5 min
- St John Bosco Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 423 m · 5 min
- D'arcy McGee Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 737 m · 9 min
- Balanced Education Network B.e.n. SchoolPrivate · 800 m · 10 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch750 m · 9 min
- Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch1.3 km · 16 min
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.
Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,634 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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
Within a kilometre there are 34 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,097 rental units, 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection — 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 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2208 Dufferin St · 2204 - 2208 Dufferin Inc. | 18 | 4 | 1959 | 89 · Jul 2025 | 33 m |
| 2204 Dufferin St · 2204 - 2208 Dufferin Inc. | 28 | 4 | 1959 | 72 · Jul 2026 | 76 m |
| 65 Dynevor Rd · Hazelview Property Services Inc | 90 | 9 | 1967 | 84 · Aug 2024 | 128 m |
| 2339 Dufferin St social housing · Woodgreen Community Services | 120 | 14 | 1976 | — | 444 m · 5 min |
| 620 Northcliffe Blvd · Hazelview Property Services Inc | 68 | 9 | 1968 | 90 · Oct 2025 | 461 m · 5 min |
| 2353 Dufferin St social housing · Lewis Garnsworthy Residence | 144 | 16 | 1997 | 75 · Sep 2024 | 513 m · 6 min |
34 registered buildings · 2,097 units · 6 social housing · tallest 16 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
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.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 3 | 2 | 0 | house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 at the City's last count here, in 2004. Its latest count is from Apr 13, 2004, 1.43× today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Dufferin & Preston a walkable intersection?
Dufferin & Preston scores 50 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,634 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: 3 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; Fairbank Station 0.6 km · 6 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km.
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 (509 m away, 49 spaces, 25% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 397 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,280 spaces — 26 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 91 Via Italia (1.8 km).
How do I get to Dufferin & Preston by transit?
Fairbank Station (Line 5) is 608 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 66 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Brazilian Pizza Factory (403 m), Sol Nascente Restaurant (445 m), Cantina Minhoto (445 m), Branzy's Chill N Grill (480 m) and Frenzline Sport Bar & Grill (512 m). 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.
Is there child care near Dufferin & Preston?
Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 247 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Lycee Francais de Toronto (333 m, 22 spaces), St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre (737 m, 56 spaces) and Aboriginal Head Start - Epnigishmok (737 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Dufferin & Preston?
34 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,097 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2208 Dufferin St (33 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 2204 Dufferin St (76 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 65 Dynevor Rd (128 m, 90 units, RentSafeTO score 84) and 2339 Dufferin St (444 m, 120 units). The average RentSafeTO score across the 34 is 83 out of 100.
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. 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
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 Apr 13, 2004.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (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 Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 9 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: 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; 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. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.69096, -79.44831 · centreline node 13459909.