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Oakwood & Amherst

Oakwood Ave & Amherst Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Oakwood Village · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's · Oakwood Village BIA

Oakwood & Amherst is a moderately travelled crossing. It sits in Oakwood Village. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: Oakwood Station (Line 5) 689 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
13,164
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 25, 2023
275 pedestrians · 73 cyclists · #1466 busiest
Collisions
23
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 15 property damage · #3237 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Oakwood Station 689 m · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 11 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 940 vehicles, 81% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 48 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 2.3 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 1.8 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions rose 129%, from 7 in 2016–2020 to 16 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Oakwood & Amherst

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Oakwood Station (Line 5)689 m; Fairbank Station (Line 5)861 m; Cedarvale Station (Line 1, Line 5)893 m
TTC bus
90631612934109164 nearest 68 m
Express
929
Blue Night
363329334
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Vaughan Rd at Oakwood Ave East Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Vaughan Rd / Oakwood Ave 145 m · 11 docks · 5 stations, 76 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 (21)
  • D'arcy McGee Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 225 m
  • J R Wilcox Community SchoolEnglish Public · 503 m
  • Leo Baeck Day School - South CampusPrivate · 600 m
  • St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 656 m
  • Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 726 m
  • Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 771 m
  • and 15 more
Community centres
Parks (20)
  • Laughlin Park346 m
  • Cy Townsend Park467 m
  • Senator Peter Bosa Parkette520 m
  • Arlington Parkette556 m
  • Fairbank Memorial Park598 m
  • Charles Brereton Park732 m
  • and 14 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch572 m
  • Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch762 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 14 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 116. The nearest is Earla's Kitchen, 18 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2025.

Restaurants & cafés14 within 300 m · 116 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 23 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Earla's Kitchen · 477 Oakwood Ave18 mPassed, May 2025
Sunshine Bar & Coffee Inc · 522 Oakwood Ave55 mPassed, Nov 2025
Always Fresh Restaurant · 620 Vaughan Rd64 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Sam's Food Store · 620 Vaughan Rdgrocery64 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions
Best Choice Vegetable & Grocery · 526 Oakwood Avegrocery78 mPassed, May 2025
Taco Fuego · 571 Vaughan Rd110 mPassed, Apr 2026
Kera Fresh Meat · 621 Vaughan Rdgrocery118 mPassed, Apr 2026
All In One Enterprise · 536 Oakwood Ave119 mPassed, Apr 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 Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 616 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 348 m away at Laughlin Park.

  • Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom · 2213 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    616 m
  • Phil White Arena Washroom · 443 Arlington Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    714 m
Drinking water
Laughlin Park drinking fountain · 348 m; Cy Townsend Park drinking fountain · 479 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 710 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre (225 m, 56 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age).

Within 1 km10 centres · 710 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 10
  • St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre · 20 Bansley Ave
    56 spaces · toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    225 m
  • Aboriginal Head Start - Epnigishmok · 20 Bansley Ave
    16 spaces · preschool
    225 m
  • Lef - Vaughan Road Infant and Toddler Centre · 529 Vaughan Rd
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    296 m
  • La Maison du Dodo · 582 Oakwood Ave
    25 spaces · toddler, preschool
    304 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 341 (344 m), the nearest police station 13 Division (815 m) and the nearest ambulance station 2.3 km away.

FireFire Station 341 · 344 m555 Oakwood Ave
Police13 Division · 815 m1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 18 · 2.3 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 43 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,633 rental units — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 642 Vaughan Rd (182 m, 23 units, 4 storeys, built 1957), which scored 79 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 66 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 13 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings43 · 2,633 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202666 across the 43
Open fire-code violations13
Tallest16 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
642 Vaughan Rd · Astroid Management Ltd.234195779 · Aug 20264182 m
560 Oakwood Ave244196094 · Aug 20260226 m
641 Vaughan Rd · Realstar454195593 · Aug 20260227 m
330 Winnett Ave · Greenwin Corp.394197192 · Aug 20260432 m
460 Winona Dr · Canlight Management Inc.555195873 · Oct 20256446 m
481 Vaughan Rd · Medallion Corporation977195795 · Aug 20254450 m
450 Winona Dr · 2298097 Ontario Inc1246196086 · Oct 20253 · 1 fire467 m
300 Winnett Ave · Greenwin Corp.354197192 · Nov 20250469 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 lots615 lots · ≈21,990 spaces · 66 ha
Within 500 m37 lots · ≈860 spaces
Green P (public)19 car parks · about 804 spaces
EV charging (City)168 Chiltern Hill Rd · 1.4 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking15 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
406 Oakwood Ave · Surface388 m1757% (Q1 2026)
341 Oakwood Avenue · Surface582 m22 *
1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface680 m2041% (Q1 2026)
2053 Dufferin Street · Surface729 m23 *
2054 Dufferin St · Surface752 m4925% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 18 m away, ≈5 spaces; 34 m away, ≈39 spaces; 36 m away, ≈4 spaces; 79 m away, ≈9 spaces; 84 m away, ≈15 spaces; 101 m away, ≈6 spaces. More EV charging: 91 Via Italia (1.7 km, 12 ports); 580 Christie St (1.8 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 — 14-hour, Oct 25, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 6,683 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 2 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the north (39 of 73). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,050 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 1,046 from 5:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north5,947southbound · 39 bikes · 3.0% heavy
From the west532eastbound · 2 bikes · 0.8% heavy
Total vehicles13,164275 pedestrians · 73 cyclists · 3.6% heavy
From the east2westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south6,683northbound · 32 bikes · 4.4% heavy
AM peak hour1,050 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour1,046 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 25, 2023

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 Oakwood Ave between Hanson Rd and Jesmond Ave, 254 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in April 2019 put the average speed at 36 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 45 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 19,900 vehicles a day. Amherst Ave between Lane W of Oakwood and S of Amherst and Glenholme Ave measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Jun 2024). The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Amherst Ave · Lane W of Oakwood and S of Amherst – Glenholme Ave · 153 mJun 2024 · 3 days59130 km/h39 km/h44 km/h
Oakwood Ave · Hanson Rd – Jesmond Ave · 254 mApr 2019 · 24 h19,87736 km/h45 km/h49 km/h

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 8 collisions. 4 collisions (17%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 31, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 1.8 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions23#3237 of 5,508
With an injury4#3039 of 4,660
Property damage only15
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201425latest Dec 31, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Aug 14, 2008.

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

Four thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle420street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 16, 2024. 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 Oakwood & Amherst a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 23 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 Oakwood & Amherst?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1466 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 81% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Oakwood & Amherst?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Oakwood Ave between Hanson Rd and Jesmond Ave (April 2019), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 45 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Oakwood & Amherst?

The nearest Green P car park is 406 Oakwood Ave (388 m away, 17 spaces, 57% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 615 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,990 spaces — 37 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.4 km).

How do I get to Oakwood & Amherst by transit?

Oakwood Station (Line 5) is 689 m away; bus routes 90, 63, 161, 29, 34, 109, 164, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Vaughan Rd at Oakwood Ave East Side, 68 m).

What restaurants are near Oakwood & Amherst?

14 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 116 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Earla's Kitchen (18 m), Sunshine Bar & Coffee Inc (55 m), Always Fresh Restaurant (64 m), Taco Fuego (110 m) and All In One Enterprise (119 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 Oakwood & Amherst?

The nearest is Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 2213 Dufferin St, 616 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Phil White Arena Washroom (714 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 Oakwood & Amherst?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 710 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre (225 m, 56 spaces), Aboriginal Head Start - Epnigishmok (225 m, 16 spaces) and Lef - Vaughan Road Infant and Toddler Centre (296 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Oakwood & Amherst?

43 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,633 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 642 Vaughan Rd (182 m, 23 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 560 Oakwood Ave (226 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 641 Vaughan Rd (227 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 330 Winnett Ave (432 m, 39 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 43 is 85 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 Oakwood & Amherst?

Toronto Police place four 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 Oakwood Village page.

What neighbourhood is Oakwood & Amherst in?

Oakwood & Amherst is in Oakwood Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 107). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow. The corner falls inside the Oakwood Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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