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Hallam & Salem

Hallam St & Salem Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Dovercourt Village · Ward 9, Davenport · Dovercourt Village BIA

At its last City count, in 2021, Hallam & Salem, in Dovercourt Village, in central Toronto, was a low-volume local intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a bike lane, a school within 250 m and a park at the corner. Nearby: Dufferin Station (Line 2) 790 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
1,928
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 14, 2021
659 pedestrians · 474 cyclists
Collisions
8
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Dufferin Station 790 m · 11 routes within 1 km · bikeway
Within a walk
52/100
city median 48 · #2,463 of 5,672
2 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 701 m

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Hallam & Salem

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 · Oct 14, 2021

The east leg carries the load — 918 westbound vehicles, or 48% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 53. Most cyclists arrived from the east (203 of 474). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 370 vehicles in the hour from 4:15 p.m., 47% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (251). Heavy vehicles made up 3.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 north138southbound · 45 bikes · 4.3% heavy
From the west819eastbound · 182 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles1,928659 pedestrians · 474 cyclists · 3.1% heavy
From the east918westbound · 203 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the south53northbound · 44 bikes · 5.7% heavy

Peak hours: 251 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 370 from 4:15 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

2018 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 50% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 12, 2022.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions8
With an injury0
Property damage only5
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
Severity not classified3
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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.

Speeds here, last measured in 2021

The City's counter on Hallam St between Westmoreland Ave and Salem Ave (51 m away) recorded an average of 26 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 33 km/h. That segment carries about 3,400 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Hallam St · Westmoreland Ave – Salem Ave · 51 mSep 2021 · 3 days3,40026 km/h33 km/h35 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
Dufferin Station (Line 2)790 m · 9 min; Ossington Station (Line 2)1 km · 11 min
TTC bus
161 29 26 63 127 nearest 212 m
Express
929
Blue Night
329 363 300
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Sharrows on Hallam St installed 2001
Bike Share
Westmoreland Ave / Fernbank Ave 278 m · 3 min · 19 docks · 9 stations, 162 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
13 car parks · about 610 spaces
EV charging
685 Dovercourt Rd · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports; also 273 Christie St (1.3 km), 705 Shaw St (1.5 km)
Bike parking
18 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 14 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
11 mapped lots within 500 m, 413 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Salem Ave · Surface660 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface743 m3763% (Q1 2026)
745 Ossington Ave · Surface1.2 km4667% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface1.3 km4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface1.6 km16over 100% (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

The nearest grocery store is Amelias Market, 701 m away; 4 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. Three specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Mel's Bakery at 219 m. There are 2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 85 eating places within a kilometre — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is South Pacific Chinese/Polynesian Foods, 238 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Sone's Pharmacy, 222 m away; 6 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: New Horizons Tower, a retirement home 1.0 km away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • South Pacific Chinese/Polynesian Foods · 1002 Dovercourt Rd238 m
  • Better Days Coffee & Donuts · 963 Dovercourt Rd295 m · 4 min
  • Stop BBQ Chicken & Stuff · 1216 Dufferin St318 m · 4 min
  • Creamland By Sj Kitchen · 1216 Dufferin St A336 m · 4 min
  • Kerala Nook · 1110 Dupont St476 m · 6 min
2 within 300 m · 85 within 1 km
Grocery
Amelias Market 701 m · 8 min · 4 within 1 km
Food shops
Mel's Bakery 219 m · 3 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
Pharmacy
Sone's Pharmacy 222 m · 6 within 1 km
Child care
  • Dover Gardens Nursery School · 16 spaces, preschool · $10-a-day156 m
  • Macaulay - Dovercourt Child Care Centre · 131 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day156 m
  • Kids Korner Day Care · 24 spaces, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day207 m
6 licensed centres · 421 spaces within 1 km · 5 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Dovercourt Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.233 m
  • Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed543 m · 6 min
Drinking water: Dovercourt Park 223 m
Health and care
  • New Horizons Tower · retirement home1 km · 12 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 (20)
  • Dovercourt Park167 m
  • Bartlett Parkette580 m · 7 min
  • Bristol Avenue Parkette East626 m · 7 min
  • Wallace Emerson Park630 m · 8 min
  • Salem Parkette677 m · 8 min
and 15 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (13)
  • Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 156 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 465 m · 6 min
  • Uchenna AcademyPrivate · 592 m · 7 min
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 853 m · 10 min
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 857 m · 10 min
and 8 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch925 m · 11 min
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1.4 km · 17 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.

52of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,463 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food13/30

    4 grocery stores within 1 km · 2 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit18/28

    Dufferin Station 0.8 km · 2 stops within 300 m · 11 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go5/14

    library 925 m away

  • Parks and recreation8/10

    1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care8/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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

Eight registered apartment buildings with 632 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 331 Bartlett Ave N (647 m, 13 units, 3 storeys, built 1905), which scored 74 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 8 scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
331 Bartlett Ave N Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation133190574 · Sep 2024647 m · 8 min
1019 Bloor St W · Donros Developments Limited263192863 · Jul 2026768 m · 9 min
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 2025831 m · 10 min
357 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management26716196995 · Jul 2026874 m · 10 min
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 2025889 m · 11 min
177 Pendrith St Toronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 2025923 m · 11 min

8 registered buildings · 632 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 three thefts from vehicles and four bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310house driveway/garage (3)
Bicycle theft410house driveway/garage (3), other (1)

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 Dovercourt Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Hallam & Salem a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 8 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 Hallam & Salem?

A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Oct 14, 2021, 21% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Hallam & Salem a walkable intersection?

Hallam & Salem scores 52 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,463 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: 2 schools within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; Dufferin Station 0.8 km · 2 stops within 300 m · 11 routes within 1 km.

How fast do cars go at Hallam & Salem?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Hallam St between Westmoreland Ave and Salem Ave (September 2021), found an average of 26 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Hallam & Salem?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Salem Ave (660 m away, 33 spaces, 74% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 413 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,120 spaces — 11 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.0 km).

How do I get to Hallam & Salem by transit?

Dufferin Station (Line 2) is 790 m away; bus routes 161, 29, 26, 63, 127, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Hallam & Salem?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 85 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are South Pacific Chinese/Polynesian Foods (238 m), Better Days Coffee & Donuts (295 m), Stop BBQ Chicken & Stuff (318 m), Creamland By Sj Kitchen (336 m) and Kerala Nook (476 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Hallam & Salem?

The nearest is Dovercourt Park Washroom, 155 Bartlett Ave, 233 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom (543 m).

Is there child care near Hallam & Salem?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 421 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Dover Gardens Nursery School (156 m, 16 spaces), Macaulay - Dovercourt Child Care Centre (156 m, 131 spaces) and Kids Korner Day Care (207 m, 24 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Hallam & Salem?

Eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 632 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 331 Bartlett Ave N (647 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 1019 Bloor St W (768 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 63), 767 Dovercourt Rd (831 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 357 Rusholme Rd (874 m, 267 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 8 is 83 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Hallam & Salem?

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

What neighbourhood is Hallam & Salem in?

Hallam & Salem is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. The corner falls inside the Dovercourt Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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