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Northcliffe & Vaughan

Northcliffe Blvd & Vaughan Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Oakwood Village · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's

At its last City count, in 2018, Northcliffe & Vaughan, in Oakwood Village, was a low-volume local intersection. At the corner: Fairbank Station, a bike lane and a park. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
3,692
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 15, 2018
996 pedestrians · 13 cyclists
Collisions
18
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
Fairbank Station
subway station within 250 m
12 routes within 1 km · bikeway
Within a walk
67/100
city median 48 · #1,096 of 5,672
10 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 492 m

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Northcliffe & Vaughan

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 · Feb 15, 2018

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 1,554 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 42% of the total, against 243 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 671 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 11% above the afternoon peak from 4:30 p.m. (604). Heavy vehicles made up 2.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 9 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2018, 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 north751southbound · 2 bikes · 2.7% heavy
From the west243eastbound · 3 bikes · 3.3% heavy
Total vehicles3,692996 pedestrians · 13 cyclists · 2.6% heavy
From the east1,144westbound · 6 bikes · 3.1% heavy
From the south1,554northbound · 2 bikes · 2.2% heavy

Peak hours: 671 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 604 from 4:30 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 2019, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 3 collisions (17%) involved an injury. 8 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 44% of collisions. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (11%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 19, 2026.

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

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions18
With an injury3
Property damage only8
Fail to remain8
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist1
Severity not classified7
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
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.

How fast traffic moves here

On Vaughan Rd between Greyton Cres and Lauder Ave, 111 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2021 put the average speed at 45 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 53 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 58 km/h or more. That segment carries about 12,000 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Northcliffe Blvd between Vaughan Rd and Lane S of Eglinton and E of Northcliffe measured slower: 32 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 40 km/h (Oct 2024). At the school-zone speed sign on Glenholme Ave (222 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.7% of the 60,200 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Northcliffe Blvd · Vaughan Rd – Lane S of Eglinton and E of Northcliffe · 47 mOct 2024 · 3 days7,05232 km/h40 km/h45 km/h
Vaughan Rd · Greyton Cres – Lauder Ave · 111 mOct 2021 · 3 days12,02645 km/h53 km/h58 km/h
Speed sign
Glenholme Ave (northbound), 222 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 21 km/h, 85th percentile 29 km/h; 0.7% at 40 km/h or more. 60,200 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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)239 m; Oakwood Station (Line 5)602 m · 7 min
TTC bus
34 29 63 90 109 164 nearest 181 m
Express
929
Blue Night
334 329 363
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane on Vaughan Rd installed 2020
Bike Share
Eglinton Ave W / Oakwood Ave 510 m · 6 min · 15 docks · 6 stations, 110 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 423 spaces
EV charging
168 Chiltern Hill Rd · 1.9 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking
20 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
34 mapped lots within 500 m, 430 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Shortt St · Surface571 m13827% (Q1 2026)
1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface775 m2041% (Q1 2026)
2054 Dufferin St · Surface1.1 km4925% (Q1 2026)
2053 Dufferin Street · Surface1.1 km23 *—
406 Oakwood Ave · Surface1.1 km1757% (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, 492 m away. For everything else there are two convenience stores and gas bars within 300 m. Toronto Public Health inspects 10 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 90 — 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Food Squad, 170 m away. Three pharmacies sit within 300 m of the corner; the nearest is Northcliffe Pharmacy, 179 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. La Centre For Active Seniors - Doug Saunders Apartments runs a seniors' active living programme 298 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Food Squad · 800 Vaughan Rd170 m
  • Gursha · 1719 Eglinton Ave W202 m
  • High Life Restaurant · 1741 Eglinton Ave W208 m
  • Irieman Restaurant & Bar · 1735 Eglinton Ave W211 m
  • El Puerto Marisqueria · 1727 Eglinton Ave W212 m
10 within 300 m · 90 within 1 km
Grocery
Family Supermarket and Meat Store 492 m · 6 min · 5 within 1 km
Food shops
Frida's Mexi-Cakes 343 m · 4 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Convenience
2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Northcliffe Pharmacy 179 m · 7 within 1 km
Child care
  • Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre · 41 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day403 m · 5 min
  • La Maison du Dodo · 25 spaces, toddler, preschool500 m · 6 min
  • Lycee Francais de Toronto · 22 spaces, preschool528 m · 6 min
6 licensed centres · 209 spaces within 1 km · 3 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed570 m · 7 min
Drinking water: Walter Saunders Memorial Park 590 m · 7 min (off)
Health and care
  • La Centre For Active Seniors - Doug Saunders Apartments · seniors' active living centre298 m · 4 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 (12)
  • Senator Peter Bosa Parkette157 m
  • Fairbank Memorial Park382 m · 5 min
  • Walter Saunders Memorial Park652 m · 8 min
  • Laughlin Park1 km · 12 min
  • Cy Townsend Park1.1 km · 14 min
and 7 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (10)
  • St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 403 m · 5 min
  • Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 528 m · 6 min
  • D'arcy McGee Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 582 m · 7 min
  • Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 597 m · 7 min
  • St John Bosco Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km · 12 min
and 5 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch185 m
  • Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch1.3 km · 15 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.

67of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,096 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food19/30

    5 grocery stores within 1 km · 10 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit25/28

    Fairbank Station · 2 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 185 m away

  • Parks and recreation9/10

    2 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care7/8

    1 school within 500 m · 2 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

Within a kilometre there are 28 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,957 rental units — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 633 Northcliffe Blvd (48 m, 86 units, 11 storeys, built 1968), which scored 80 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
633 Northcliffe Blvd · Drake Property Management8611196880 · Oct 202548 m
787 Vaughan Rd384197794 · Aug 2026111 m
659 Northcliffe Blvd Toronto Community Housing · TCH547200398 · Sep 2024129 m
682 Northcliffe Blvd · Oz Property Management Ltd546196084 · Aug 2026133 m
795 Vaughan Rd1068196685 · Aug 2025133 m
620 Northcliffe Blvd · Hazelview Property Services Inc689196890 · Oct 2025152 m

28 registered buildings · 1,957 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

Nine thefts from vehicles and five bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 6 in 2023–2025, about 2.0 a year, against 1.1 a year before that. 56% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 60% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle930street/outdoor (5), apartment parking (2)
Bicycle theft530apartment parking (3), house driveway/garage (2)

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 Northcliffe & Vaughan a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 18 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 Northcliffe & Vaughan?

A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2018. Its latest count is from Feb 15, 2018, 40% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Northcliffe & Vaughan a walkable intersection?

Northcliffe & Vaughan scores 67 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,096 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 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; Fairbank Station · 2 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km; 1 school within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m.

How fast do cars go at Northcliffe & Vaughan?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Vaughan Rd between Greyton Cres and Lauder Ave (October 2021), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 53 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 222 m away (30 km/h), 0.7% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Northcliffe & Vaughan?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Shortt St (571 m away, 138 spaces, 27% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 430 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 19,840 spaces — 34 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.9 km).

How do I get to Northcliffe & Vaughan by transit?

Fairbank Station (Line 5) is 239 m away; bus routes 34, 29, 63, 90, 109, 164, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Northcliffe & Vaughan?

10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 90 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Food Squad (170 m), Gursha (202 m), High Life Restaurant (208 m), Irieman Restaurant & Bar (211 m) and El Puerto Marisqueria (212 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Northcliffe & Vaughan?

The nearest is Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 2213 Dufferin St, 570 m away.

Is there child care near Northcliffe & Vaughan?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 209 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre (403 m, 41 spaces), La Maison du Dodo (500 m, 25 spaces) and Lycee Francais de Toronto (528 m, 22 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Northcliffe & Vaughan?

28 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,957 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 633 Northcliffe Blvd (48 m, 86 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 787 Vaughan Rd (111 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 659 Northcliffe Blvd (129 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 98) and 682 Northcliffe Blvd (133 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 84). The average RentSafeTO score across the 28 is 86 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Northcliffe & Vaughan?

Toronto Police place nine thefts from vehicles and five 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 Northcliffe & Vaughan in?

Northcliffe & Vaughan is in Oakwood Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 107). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow.

Sources

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