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Hepbourne & Ossington

Hepbourne St & Ossington Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto, Hepbourne & Ossington is a moderately travelled crossing. Nearby is Ossington Station (Line 2) 308 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
8,748
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 8, 2022
432 pedestrians · 341 cyclists
Collisions
22
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 15 property damage · #3294 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Ossington Station 308 m · 1 streetcar route · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 1,090 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 20 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Cyclists were 3.9% of vehicle volume, about 5.0× the typical share. That comes with about 2.2 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 31%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 9 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Hepbourne & Ossington

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

Subway
Ossington Station (Line 2)308 m; Christie Station (Line 2)673 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)746 m
Streetcar
506 nearest 613 m
TTC bus
639416112629402 nearest 12 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306363300329
Nearest stops
11 surface stops within 300 m — Ossington Ave at Hepbourne St; Ossington Ave at Hepbourne St North Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Roxton Rd / Harbord St 162 m · 11 docks · 27 stations, 520 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 (28)
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 297 m
  • Dewson Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 457 m
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 490 m
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 494 m
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 635 m
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 703 m
  • and 22 more
Parks (27)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch632 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch744 m
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.2 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 29 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 336 — 4.6× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Flock Rotisserie + Greens, 209 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés29 within 300 m · 336 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 53 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Flock Rotisserie + Greens · 379 Harbord St209 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Terrazza · 372 Harbord St211 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Levant · 899 Bloor St W236 mPassed, Jun 2026
Futsum Modern Bar & Restaurant · 897 Bloor St W241 mPassed, Aug 2026
Network Satellite Centre · 720 Ossington Ave248 mPassed, Aug 2026
Mc Donalds · 883 Bloor St W249 mPassed, May 2026
Third Place · 875 Bloor St W252 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 1 infraction
Bloomer's · 873 Bloor St W255 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions

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 Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 462 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 363 m away at Irene Avenue Parkette.

  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    462 m
  • Bickford Park Washroom · 400 Grace St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    544 m
  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    617 m
Drinking water
Irene Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 363 m; Northumberland Playground drinking fountain · 363 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

18 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,617 spaces; 13 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (218 m, 39 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km18 centres · 1,617 spaces
Fee subsidy13 of 18
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    218 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    340 m
  • Dewson Street YMCA · 65 Concord Ave
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    457 m
  • Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. · 301 Montrose Ave
    117 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    490 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (945 m) and the nearest ambulance station 470 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.4 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 945 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 470 m760 Dovercourt Rd

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 31 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,715 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 675 Dovercourt Rd (293 m, 11 units, 3 storeys, built 1940), which scored 45 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Four buildings of the 31 scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 46 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings31 · 1,715 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score83 average · 4 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202646 across the 31
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
675 Dovercourt Rd113194045 · Jul 20260293 m
730 Dovercourt Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management35620196797 · Jul 202514365 m
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 20250403 m
805 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 20250 · 1 fire418 m
323 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management22620196887 · Jun 202511434 m
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 20250435 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 20250453 m
357 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management26716196995 · Jul 202610455 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 lots780 lots · ≈22,160 spaces · 66.5 ha
Within 500 m46 lots · ≈720 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 1,186 spaces
EV charging (City)705 Shaw St · 229 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking64 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 30 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface306 m4667% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface574 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface677 m3763% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface777 m3468% (Q1 2026)
157 Beatrice St · Surface877 m1864% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 110 m away, ≈25 spaces; 141 m away, ≈4 spaces; 159 m away, ≈4 spaces; 216 m away, ≈3 spaces; 223 m away, ≈23 spaces; 242 m away, ≈6 spaces. More EV charging: 685 Dovercourt Rd (323 m, 2 ports); 74 Clinton Street (1 km, 4 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (1.1 km, 2 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, Jun 8, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 4,503 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 407 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the south (163 of 341). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,222 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,319 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.0% 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 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north3,838southbound · 74 bikes · 5.5% heavy
From the west407eastbound · 104 bikes · 1.2% heavy
Total vehicles8,748432 pedestrians · 341 cyclists · 5.0% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south4,503northbound · 163 bikes · 4.9% heavy
AM peak hour1,222 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,319 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 8, 2022

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 Ossington Ave between Lane N of Dewson and W of Ossington and Harbord St, 204 m from the corner, a 7-day count in September 2025 put the average speed at 30 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 38 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 43 km/h or more. That segment carries about 8,900 vehicles a day. Hepbourne St between Concord Ave and Delaware Ave measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 31 km/h (Nov 2022). 3 speed humps slow traffic on Hepbourne Street between Ossington Ave and Dovercourt Rd.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Hepbourne St · Concord Ave – Delaware Ave · 159 mNov 2022 · 3 days1,73723 km/h31 km/h35 km/h
Ossington Ave · Lane N of Dewson and W of Ossington – Harbord St · 204 mSep 2025 · 7 days8,91030 km/h38 km/h43 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Hepbourne Street · Ossington Ave – Dovercourt Rd
    3 speed humps

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 2017, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 3 collisions (14%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 4 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (18%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Nov 29, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions22#3294 of 5,508
With an injury3#3408 of 4,660
Property damage only15
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian1#2856 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist3#859 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201426latest Nov 29, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

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

Eight thefts from vehicles and 16 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 9 in 2023–2025, about 3.0 a year, against 2.1 a year before that. 63% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 69% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle810street/outdoor (5), apartment parking (2)
Bicycle theft1680house driveway/garage (11), apartment parking (3)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 17, 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 Palmerston-Little Italy.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Hepbourne & Ossington a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 22 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 Hepbourne & Ossington?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Jun 8, 2022, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Hepbourne & Ossington?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ossington Ave between Lane N of Dewson and W of Ossington and Harbord St (September 2025), found an average of 30 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Hepbourne & Ossington?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (306 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 780 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,160 spaces — 46 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (229 m).

How do I get to Hepbourne & Ossington by transit?

Ossington Station (Line 2) is 308 m away; streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 613 m away; bus routes 63, 94, 161, 126, 29, 402, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Ossington Ave at Hepbourne St, 12 m).

What restaurants are near Hepbourne & Ossington?

29 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 336 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Flock Rotisserie + Greens (209 m), Terrazza (211 m), Levant (236 m), Futsum Modern Bar & Restaurant (241 m) and Network Satellite Centre (248 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 Hepbourne & Ossington?

The nearest is Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 485 Montrose Ave, 462 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Bickford Park Washroom (544 m); Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (617 m). 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 Hepbourne & Ossington?

18 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,617 spaces in total; 13 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (218 m, 39 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (340 m, 49 spaces) and Dewson Street YMCA (457 m, 127 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Hepbourne & Ossington?

31 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,715 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 675 Dovercourt Rd (293 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 45), 730 Dovercourt Rd (365 m, 356 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 220 Delaware Ave (403 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79) and 805 Bloor St W (418 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86). The average RentSafeTO score across the 31 is 83 out of 100; 4 scored below 70. 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 Hepbourne & Ossington?

Toronto Police place eight thefts from vehicles and 16 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 Palmerston-Little Italy page.

What neighbourhood is Hepbourne & Ossington in?

Hepbourne & Ossington is in Palmerston-Little Italy (City of Toronto neighbourhood 080). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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