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Queen & Northcote

Queen St W & Northcote Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Little Portugal · Ward 9, Davenport · West Queen West BIA

Queen & Northcote is a mid-volume intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Little Portugal, in central Toronto. At the corner: parks. Nearby: Exhibition GO 1.0 km away and 14 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
11,343
vehicles · 14-hour count, May 5, 2026
5,559 pedestrians · 697 cyclists · #1605 busiest
Collisions
71
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
8 with an injury · 52 property damage · #1539 of 5,508
KSI collisions
2
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 2 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #414 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
4 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 810 vehicles, 70% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.0 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 6.1% of vehicle volume, about 7.9× the typical share. That comes with about 7.1 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 6.3 per 10,000 counted vehicles, in line with the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions rose 22%, from 32 in 2016–2020 to 39 in 2021–2025. About one in 36 of those collisions involved a death or serious injury.

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Queen & Northcote

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Exhibition GO — Lakeshore West1 km
Streetcar
501504508505 nearest 86 m
TTC bus
296340247 nearest 216 m
Express
929
Blue Night
301304305329363
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m — Queen St West at Gladstone Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Gladstone Ave / Queen St W 115 m · 15 docks · 35 stations, 698 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 (18)
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 432 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 769 m
  • Holy Family Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 829 m
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 874 m
  • Parkdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 884 m
  • Dr Rita Cox - Kina Minagok Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 12 more
Parks (42)
  • Lisgar Park180 m
  • Pessoa Park233 m
  • Parkdale Amphitheatre262 m
  • Rita Cox Park293 m
  • Gwynne Avenue Parkette329 m
  • Melbourne Avenue Parkette356 m
  • and 36 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch563 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 218 m
  • Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 1.1 km
  • Queen Elizabeth TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • BMO FieldSports / Entertainment Venue · 1.2 km
  • Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum)Sports / Entertainment Venue · 1.2 km
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 1.4 km
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1.4 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 38 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 9 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 352 — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 16 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés38 within 300 m · 352 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience9 within 300 m · 48 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Tim Hortons · 1169 Queen St W16 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Eleven Ninety-Two · 1192 Queen St W17 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 1 infraction
Nunu Ethiopian Fusion · 1178 Queen St W24 mPassed, Apr 2025
Pastalia · 1180 Queen St W26 mPassed, May 2026
Cafe Gigi · 1186 Queen St W30 mPassed, May 2026
The Dirty Laundry · 1186 Queen St W30 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Freshco · 22 Northcote Avegrocery45 mPassed, Jul 2026
Han Kki · 1170 Queen St W46 mPassed, Aug 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 Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 633 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 290 m away at Rita Cox Park.

  • Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
    View centre hours
    633 m
  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    772 m
  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 155 Crawford St
    View centre hours · accessible
    1 km
Drinking water
Rita Cox Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 290 m; Melbourne Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 340 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

12 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 807 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Bonaventure Child Care Centre (321 m, 67 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km12 centres · 807 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 12
  • Bonaventure Child Care Centre · 295 Dufferin St
    67 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    321 m
  • Kids & Company King and Highline · 1100 King St W
    74 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    418 m
  • Queen Street Childcare Centre · 10 White Squirrel Way
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    426 m
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA · 108 Gladstone Ave
    120 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    432 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 348 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 1.1 km140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 1 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 348 m1288 Queen St 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 86 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 7,702 rental units, 3.7× the median for a Toronto intersection — 21 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1176 Queen St W (32 m, 25 units, 3 storeys, built 1915), which scored 54 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 86 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 176 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 44 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings86 · 7,702 units · 21 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026176 across the 86
Open fire-code violations44
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1176 Queen St W253191554 · Jul 2026032 m
8 Beaconsfield Ave · Dsm Investment Group Limited114193291 · Jul 2025091 m
180 Sudbury Stsocial housing · St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society19018201182 · Sep 20242 · 2 fire114 m
345 Dufferin Stsocial housing · Dms Property Management Ltd.2008198483 · Jul 20253233 m
55 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation1169200596 · Aug 20261236 m
45 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation29114201091 · Aug 202620273 m
400 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Service15213202199 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire311 m
295 Dufferin St0015321 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 lots605 lots · ≈25,770 spaces · 77.3 ha
Within 500 m49 lots · ≈1,540 spaces
Green P (public)21 car parks · about 1,517 spaces
EV charging (City)45 Abell St · 224 m · 12 Level 2 + 4 fast ports
Bike parking86 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 76 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
45 Abell St · Garage193 m12460% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface284 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
1155 King Street West · Surface566 m269 *
18 Ossington Ave · Surface577 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)
1325 Queen St W · Surface667 m3294% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 27 m away, ≈4 spaces; 36 m away, ≈2 spaces; 62 m away, ≈7 spaces; 88 m away, ≈26 spaces; 88 m away, ≈102 spaces; 143 m away, ≈14 spaces. More EV charging: 1051 Queen Street W (455 m, 2 ports); 1224 KING ST W (476 m, 2 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (946 m, 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, May 5, 2026

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 5,873 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 416 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the west (347 of 697). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,013 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,031 from 5:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north416southbound · 34 bikes · 6.0% heavy
From the west5,873eastbound · 347 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles11,3435,559 pedestrians · 697 cyclists · 3.4% heavy
From the east5,054westbound · 316 bikes · 3.8% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,013 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,031 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · May 5, 2026

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

The City's most recent midblock count on Queen St W between Dovercourt Rd and Lisgar St (249 m away, Nov 2019) recorded volume only — about 8,576 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Queen St W · Dovercourt Rd – Lisgar St · 249 mNov 2019 · 4 days8,576

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 2023, with 11 collisions; 2025 recorded 7. 8 collisions (11%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 14 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 9 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (13%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Sep 29, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 6.3 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions71#1539 of 5,508
With an injury8#2114 of 4,660
Property damage only52
Fail to remain14
Involving a pedestrian6#606 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist3#873 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified11
All since 201483latest Sep 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

Neither of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 2 pedestrians were among those hurt. Both happened in darkness. The most recent was on Jul 31, 2019.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions2#414 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian2#148 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness2
All KSI since 20062latest Jul 31, 2019

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

13 thefts from vehicles and 16 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 2.9 a year. 54% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 75% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking. Since January 2026, 2 more have been reported, the latest on May 28, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1341street/outdoor (7), apartment parking (6)
Bicycle theft1651apartment parking (12), street/outdoor (4)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 28, 2026. 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 Little Portugal.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Queen & Northcote a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#414 of 1,505), out of 71 reported collisions of any severity. 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 Queen & Northcote?

A mid-volume intersection. It ranks #1605 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 70% of the median for a counted intersection, and #374 for pedestrians.

Where can I park near Queen & Northcote?

The nearest Green P car park is 45 Abell St (193 m away, 124 spaces, 60% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 605 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,770 spaces — 49 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 45 Abell St (224 m).

How do I get to Queen & Northcote by transit?

Exhibition GO is 1.0 km away; streetcar routes 501, 504, 508, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 86 m away; bus routes 29, 63, 402, 47, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Queen St West at Gladstone Ave, 216 m).

What restaurants are near Queen & Northcote?

38 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 352 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tim Hortons (16 m), Eleven Ninety-Two (17 m), Nunu Ethiopian Fusion (24 m), Pastalia (26 m) and Cafe Gigi (30 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 Queen & Northcote?

The nearest is Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 220 Cowan Ave, 633 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom (772 m); Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Queen & Northcote?

12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 807 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bonaventure Child Care Centre (321 m, 67 spaces), Kids & Company King and Highline (418 m, 74 spaces) and Queen Street Childcare Centre (426 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Queen & Northcote?

86 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 7,702 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1176 Queen St W (32 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 54), 8 Beaconsfield Ave (91 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 180 Sudbury St (114 m, 190 units, RentSafeTO score 82) and 345 Dufferin St (233 m, 200 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 86 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 Queen & Northcote?

Toronto Police place 13 thefts from vehicles and 16 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 2 since January 2026. 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 Little Portugal page.

What neighbourhood is Queen & Northcote in?

Queen & Northcote is in Little Portugal (City of Toronto neighbourhood 084). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. The corner falls inside the West Queen West Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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