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Maxwell & Elder

Maxwell St & Elder St · Toronto, Ontario · Bathurst Manor · Ward 6, York Centre

Maxwell & Elder, in Bathurst Manor, is a low-volume local intersection. Nearby is 6 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
627
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 27, 2021
42 pedestrians · 19 cyclists
Collisions
2
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 1 property damage · #5393 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
3 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 80 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 7% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 15 vehicles, close to the citywide median. Cyclists were 3.0% of vehicle volume, about 3.9× the typical share. That comes with about 0.2 reported collisions a year, 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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Maxwell & Elder

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
10436105 nearest 212 m
Express
939
Blue Night
336329
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m
Regional
York Region Transit 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St Stop # 7185829 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Wilmington Ave / Kennard Ave 546 m · 11 docks · 3 stations, 49 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 (11)
  • Forest Valley Outdoor Education CentreEnglish Public · 273 m
  • Charles H Best Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 279 m
  • Wilmington Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 472 m
  • Tanenbaum Chat Wallenberg CampusPrivate · 479 m
  • Adelfiha's Christian AcademyPrivate · 939 m
  • Crawford Adventist Academy High SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km
  • and 5 more
Community centres
Parks (14)
  • Bayhampton Parkette298 m
  • Irving W. Chapley Park479 m
  • West Don Parkland481 m
  • Robert Hicks Park728 m
  • Maxwell Park741 m
  • Garthdale Parkette742 m
  • and 8 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Centennial branch914 m
Places of interest
  • Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education CentreMuseum · 1.1 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 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 10 — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Bakezy Cookie, 210 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2024.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bakezy Cookie · 36 Beaver Valley Rd210 mPassed, Sep 2024
147 Elder St Inc. · 147 Elder St396 mPassed, Jun 2026
Gan Chabad Preschool · 147 Overbrook Pl438 mPassed, Sep 2025
E Lemonis · 66 Garthdale Crt 2771 mPassed, Mar 2026
King Kone Ice Cream#2090_ Best Treats · 144 Clifton Ave779 mPassed, May 2026
King Kone Ice Cream_ice Cream Truck #1734 · 144 Clifton Ave779 mPassed, May 2026
Finch Reactivation Care Centre · 555 Finch Ave W911 mPassed, Jan 2026
Lumacare Adult Day Program · 541 Finch Ave W933 mPassed, Jan 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 462 m away at Irving W. Chapley Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Irving W. Chapley Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain, dog fountain · 462 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

Six licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 402 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre (279 m, 30 spaces, school age).

Within 1 km6 centres · 402 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 6
  • Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre · 285 Wilmington Ave
    30 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    279 m
  • Gan Chabad Preschool · 147 Overbrook Pl
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    425 m
  • Wilmington Best Child Care Centre · 330 Wilmington Ave
    171 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    472 m
  • Carousel Child Care Development Centre · 623 Finch Ave W
    46 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    532 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 112 (1.5 km), the nearest police station 32 Division (3.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.

FireFire Station 112 · 1.5 km5700 Bathurst St
Police32 Division · 3.3 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceEMS Headquarters/EMS 53 Stn/Fire Headquarters · 1 km4330 Dufferin St

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 17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,745 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 118 Overbrook Pl (289 m, 17 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 87 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 69 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 13 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings17 · 1,745 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202669 across the 17
Open fire-code violations13
Tallest15 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
118 Overbrook Pl173196087 · Jun 20250289 m
623 Finch Ave Wsocial housing · H & R Property Management14112198394 · Oct 20250532 m
707 Finch Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc1507196499 · Jul 20260568 m
625 Finch Ave Wsocial housing · H & R Property Management Ltd12314198795 · Oct 20252 · 10 fire568 m
711 Finch Ave W000598 m
601 Finch Ave W · Sterling Karamar Property Management17014196986 · Oct 202523608 m
715 Finch Ave W · Ranee Management8511197088 · Aug 20242629 m
605 Finch Ave W · The Brown Group of Companies Inc.2449196786 · Sep 20245 · 2 fire633 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 lots370 lots · ≈66,070 spaces · 198.2 ha
Within 500 m13 lots · ≈770 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 209 m away, ≈76 spaces; 213 m away, ≈45 spaces; 278 m away, ≈27 spaces; 315 m away, ≈80 spaces; 345 m away, ≈68 spaces; 359 m away, ≈133 spaces.

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, Oct 27, 2021

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 204 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 33% of the total, against 68 from the north. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 105 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m., 15% above the afternoon peak from 4:00 p.m. (91). Heavy vehicles made up 2.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. 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 north68southbound · 6 bikes · 2.9% heavy
From the west204eastbound · 4 bikes · 2.5% heavy
Total vehicles62742 pedestrians · 19 cyclists · 2.1% heavy
From the east163westbound · 0 bikes · 2.5% heavy
From the south192northbound · 9 bikes · 1.0% heavy
AM peak hour105 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour91 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 27, 2021

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 Elder St between Maxwell St and Blue Forest Dr, 48 m from the corner, a 2-day count in August 2003 put the average speed at 39 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 49 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 58 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,100 vehicles a day. Maxwell St between Candis Dr and Elder St measured slower: 35 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 43 km/h (Aug 2023). The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 3 speed humps slow traffic on Maxwell Street between Elder St and Overbrook Pl.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Elder St · Maxwell St – Blue Forest Dr · 48 mAug 2003 · 2 days1,11639 km/h49 km/h58 km/h
Maxwell St · Candis Dr – Elder St · 80 mAug 2023 · 3 days60435 km/h43 km/h48 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Maxwell Street · Elder St – Overbrook Pl
    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 2019, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 1 collision (50%) involved an injury. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (50%). The most recent report on file is from Feb 19, 2019.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions2#5393 of 5,508
With an injury1#4399 of 4,660
Property damage only1
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian1#2775 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
All since 20142latest Feb 19, 2019

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

Two thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 9, 2022. 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 Bathurst Manor.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Maxwell & Elder a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 2 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 Maxwell & Elder?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 27, 2021, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Maxwell & Elder?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Elder St between Maxwell St and Blue Forest Dr (August 2003), found an average of 39 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 49 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Maxwell & Elder?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 370 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 66,070 spaces — 13 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Maxwell & Elder by transit?

Bus routes 104, 36, 105, 939 within 1 km; York Region Transit route 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St Stop # 7185.

What restaurants are near Maxwell & Elder?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 10 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bakezy Cookie (210 m), 147 Elder St Inc. (396 m), Gan Chabad Preschool (438 m), E Lemonis (771 m) and King Kone Ice Cream#2090_ Best Treats (779 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 Maxwell & Elder?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 462 m away at Irving W. Chapley Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Maxwell & Elder?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 402 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre (279 m, 30 spaces), Gan Chabad Preschool (425 m, 49 spaces) and Wilmington Best Child Care Centre (472 m, 171 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Maxwell & Elder?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,745 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 118 Overbrook Pl (289 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 623 Finch Ave W (532 m, 141 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 707 Finch Ave W (568 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 99) and 625 Finch Ave W (568 m, 123 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 92 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 Maxwell & Elder?

Toronto Police place two 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 Bathurst Manor page.

What neighbourhood is Maxwell & Elder in?

Maxwell & Elder is in Bathurst Manor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 034). It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak.

Sources

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