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Kenwood & Claxton

Kenwood Ave & Claxton Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Humewood-Cedarvale · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's

In Humewood-Cedarvale, Kenwood & Claxton is a quiet local crossing. At the corner: a bike lane and a park. Nearby: St Clair West Station (Line 1) 680 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
2,641
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 15, 2019
188 pedestrians · 22 cyclists
Collisions
8
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4523 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
St Clair West Station 680 m · 1 streetcar route · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings)
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 330 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 29% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 14 vehicles, close to the citywide median. On average 0.8 collisions a year were 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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Kenwood & Claxton

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
St Clair West Station (Line 1)680 m
Streetcar
512 nearest 661 m
TTC bus
90712633 nearest 89 m
Blue Night
312307
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m — Vaughan Rd at Kenwood Ave
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Claxton Blvd installed 2005
Bike Share
Vaughan Rd /Wychwood Ave 186 m · 19 docks · 11 stations, 182 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 (20)
  • Humewood Community SchoolEnglish Public · 442 m
  • St Michael's College SchoolPrivate · 564 m
  • Robbins Hebrew AcademyPrivate · 791 m
  • Markdale PreschoolPrivate · 795 m
  • Holy Rosary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 818 m
  • Forest Hill TutoringPrivate · 849 m
  • and 14 more
Community centres
Parks (30)
  • Connaught Circle Parkette177 m
  • Ridgewood Parkette386 m
  • Cedarvale Ravine426 m
  • Tichester Park533 m
  • Humewood Park575 m
  • Cedarvale Park648 m
  • and 24 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Wychwood branch816 m
  • Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • Artscape Wychwood BarnsLandmark · 945 m

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 2 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 95. The nearest is Zemra, 121 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés2 within 300 m · 95 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 24 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Zemra · 220 Vaughan Rd121 mPassed, May 2026
The Friendly Butcher-Good'n Ready · 224 Vaughan Rdgrocery121 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction
The Friendly Butcher-Good'n Ready · 224 Vaughan Rdgrocery121 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Mister Milk · 170 Vaughan Rd265 mPassed, Feb 2026
Shell · 1586 Bathurst Stgrocery287 mPassed, Aug 2025
Shell · 1586 Bathurst Stgrocery288 mPassed, Jul 2026
Maplewood Before & After Care · 15 Cherrywood Ave442 mPassed, Sep 2025
Kinder Grove - St. Clair · 94 Vaughan Rd552 mPassed, Sep 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 Phil White Arena Washroom, 746 m away — currently listed as closed (maintenance/repairs); in season it is open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 521 m away at Tichester Park.

  • Phil White Arena Washroom · 443 Arlington Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    746 m
  • Wells Hill Park Washroom · 145 Hilton Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    863 m
Drinking water
Tichester Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 521 m; Humewood Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 573 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 639 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Humewood Day Care Centre (442 m, 114 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km9 centres · 639 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 9
  • Humewood Day Care Centre · 15 Cherrywood Ave
    114 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    442 m
  • Maplewood Before and After School Care · 15 Cherrywood Ave
    120 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    442 m
  • Kinder Grove St. Clair · 94 Vaughan Rd
    41 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    553 m
  • Abiona Centre For Infant and Early Mental Health Elc Humewood Campus · 40 Humewood Dr
    25 spaces · infant, toddler · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    581 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 343 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 13 Division (1.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 343 · 1.1 km65 Hendrick Ave
Police13 Division · 1.6 km1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 18 · 1.7 km643 Eglinton Ave W

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 121 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 6,504 rental units, 5.3× the median for a Toronto intersection — 12 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 229 Vaughan Rd (68 m, 24 units, 4 storeys, built 1938), which scored 87 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 121 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 107 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 39 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings121 · 6,504 units · 12 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026107 across the 121
Open fire-code violations39
Tallest30 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
229 Vaughan Rd · Royallepage244193887 · Aug 2026068 m
227 Vaughan Rd · Akelius Canada Ltd244192793 · Aug 20260 · 6 fire69 m
231 Vaughan Rd · Valour Management Inc.524192672 · Aug 2025092 m
235 Vaughan Rd244193492 · Aug 2026097 m
210 Vaughan Rd · 210 Vaughan Qian Holding Ltd.254195890 · Aug 20250122 m
214 Vaughan Rd316195593 · Aug 20250124 m
205 Vaughan Rd · 1021122 Ontario Limited463193089 · Aug 20250126 m
236 Vaughan Rd · Medallion Corporation795195290 · Aug 20262151 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 lots578 lots · ≈16,080 spaces · 48.2 ha
Within 500 m34 lots · ≈600 spaces
Green P (public)19 car parks · about 665 spaces
EV charging (City)580 Christie St · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking11 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
11 Kenwood Ave · Surface605 m2568% (Q1 2026)
640 St Clair Ave W · Surface703 m1866% (Q1 2026)
320 Tweedsmuir Avenue · Garage756 m26 *
700 St. Clair Ave West · Surface776 m18 *
1445 BATHURST ST · Surface776 m4887% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 93 m away, ≈14 spaces; 116 m away, ≈4 spaces; 127 m away, ≈13 spaces; 137 m away, ≈13 spaces; 147 m away, ≈7 spaces; 156 m away, ≈6 spaces. More EV charging: 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.4 km, 4 ports); 273 Christie St (2 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, Jan 15, 2019

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 1,312 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 438 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 459 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 492 from 4:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 8 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2019, 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 north0southbound · 6 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west891eastbound · 9 bikes · 0.7% heavy
Total vehicles2,641188 pedestrians · 22 cyclists · 1.5% heavy
From the east1,312westbound · 7 bikes · 1.8% heavy
From the south438northbound · 0 bikes · 2.5% heavy
AM peak hour459 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour492 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 15, 2019

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 Kenwood Ave between Maplewood Ave and Lauretta Brooks Lane, 205 m from the corner, a 4-day count in June 2004 put the average speed at 36 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 44 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,200 vehicles a day. Claxton Blvd between Raglan Ave and Kenwood Ave measured slower: 33 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Oct 2025). The reading is 22 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Vaughan Rd (313 m away, 30 km/h limit), 40% of the 126,771 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Claxton Boulevard between Kenwood Ave and Connaught Crcl.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Claxton Blvd · Raglan Ave – Kenwood Ave · 75 mOct 2025 · 3 days4,71733 km/h39 km/h44 km/h
Kenwood Ave · Maplewood Ave – Lauretta Brooks Lane · 205 mJun 2004 · 4 days1,15836 km/h44 km/h49 km/h

School-zone speed sign 313 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct38 · 44 km/h
Over the limit74%
40 km/h or more40%

Vaughan Rd (westbound), 273-275 Vaughan Road · 126,771 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Claxton Boulevard · Kenwood Ave – Connaught Crcl
    4 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 2022, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 1 collision (13%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 13% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (13%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 8, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions8#4523 of 5,508
With an injury1#4158 of 4,660
Property damage only7
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian1#2327 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 20149latest Jun 8, 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

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

One theft from a vehicle and two 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 vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft200apartment parking (1), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 22, 2020. 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 Humewood-Cedarvale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kenwood & Claxton 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 Kenwood & Claxton?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Jan 15, 2019, 29% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kenwood & Claxton?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kenwood Ave between Maplewood Ave and Lauretta Brooks Lane (June 2004), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 313 m away (30 km/h), 40% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kenwood & Claxton?

The nearest Green P car park is 11 Kenwood Ave (605 m away, 25 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 578 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,080 spaces — 34 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 580 Christie St (1.0 km).

How do I get to Kenwood & Claxton by transit?

St Clair West Station (Line 1) is 680 m away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 661 m away; bus routes 90, 7, 126, 33 within 1 km (nearest stop: Vaughan Rd at Kenwood Ave, 89 m).

What restaurants are near Kenwood & Claxton?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 95 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Zemra (121 m), Mister Milk (265 m), Maplewood Before & After Care (442 m) and Kinder Grove - St. Clair (552 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 Kenwood & Claxton?

The nearest is Phil White Arena Washroom, 443 Arlington Ave, 746 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). The City currently lists it as closed: maintenance/repairs. Next nearest: Wells Hill Park Washroom (863 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 Kenwood & Claxton?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 639 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Humewood Day Care Centre (442 m, 114 spaces), Maplewood Before and After School Care (442 m, 120 spaces) and Kinder Grove St. Clair (553 m, 41 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kenwood & Claxton?

121 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 6,504 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 229 Vaughan Rd (68 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 227 Vaughan Rd (69 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 231 Vaughan Rd (92 m, 52 units, RentSafeTO score 72) and 235 Vaughan Rd (97 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 121 is 90 out of 100; 1 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 Kenwood & Claxton?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and two 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 Humewood-Cedarvale page.

What neighbourhood is Kenwood & Claxton in?

Kenwood & Claxton is in Humewood-Cedarvale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 106). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow.

Sources

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