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Sheppard & Buckland

Sheppard Ave W & Buckland Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Glenfield-Jane Heights · Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek

Sheppard & Buckland is a moderately heavy crossing. It sits in Glenfield-Jane Heights. It has a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic
21,760
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 15, 2025
261 pedestrians · 20 cyclists · #764 busiest
Collisions
15
police-reported · 2016–2025
1 killed or seriously injured
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
9 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
41/100
city median 48
1 place to eat within 300 m · grocery 697 m

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Sheppard & Buckland

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume14-hour count · Nov 15, 2025 · weekend

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. The west leg carries the load — 11,077 eastbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 431. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 2,133 vehicles in the hour from 5:15 p.m., 52% above the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. (1,399). Heavy vehicles made up 2.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north0southbound · 2 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west11,077eastbound · 6 bikes · 2.4% heavy
Total vehicles21,760261 pedestrians · 20 cyclists · 2.2% heavy
From the east10,252westbound · 12 bikes · 2.1% heavy
From the south431northbound · 0 bikes · 0.2% heavy

Peak hours: 1,399 vehicles in the hour from 9:30 a.m. and 2,133 from 5:15 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

2024 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 20% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 27% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 18, 2026.

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. It involved vehicle occupants only — no pedestrian or cyclist. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Jun 21, 2016.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions150.7 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles
With an injury3
Property damage only8
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
Killed or seriously injured1
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Jun 21, 2016

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

The City's counter on Sheppard Ave W between Buckland Rd and Yatescastle Dr (146 m away) recorded an average of 52 km/h in its 24-hour count in October 2023; 85% of drivers were at or under 61 km/h. That segment carries about 25,800 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Sheppard Ave W (136 m away, 50 km/h limit), 10% of the 207,329 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sheppard Ave W · Buckland Rd – Yatescastle Dr · 146 mOct 2023 · 24 h25,83652 km/h61 km/h67 km/h
Speed sign
Sheppard Ave W (eastbound), 136 m — 50 km/h zone. Median 49 km/h, 85th percentile 58 km/h; 10% at 60 km/h or more. 207,329 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

TTC bus
84 120 108 35 99 nearest 23 m
Express
984 935
Blue Night
384 335
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m — Sheppard Ave West at Buckland Rd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Sheppard Ave W / Magellan Dr 545 m · 6 min · 15 docks · 2 stations, 34 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
none within 2 km
EV charging
no City charger within 2 km
Bike parking
none recorded nearby
Other lots
7 mapped lots within 500 m, 125 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often 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; 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

The nearest grocery store is Wonder Food Mart, 697 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m, and 10 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Rona Tuck Shop, 217 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Pharma Trust Drug Mart, 735 m away; 3 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. Lumacare - Northwood Community Centre runs a seniors' active living programme 719 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Rona Tuck Shop · 7-11 Arleta Ave217 m
  • Mozia Food Pantry · 7-11 Arleta Ave361 m · 4 min
  • Downview Dells · 1651 Sheppard Ave W599 m · 7 min
  • Sickkids Ccmh Early On · 1645 Sheppard Ave W633 m · 8 min
  • The Parrots Nest Restaurant · 1931-1933 Sheppard Ave W696 m · 8 min
1 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Grocery
Wonder Food Mart 697 m · 8 min · 2 within 1 km
Pharmacy
Pharma Trust Drug Mart 735 m · 9 min · 3 within 1 km
Child care
  • Calico Saints Child Care Centre · 161 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day525 m · 6 min
1 licensed centre · 161 spaces within 1 km · accepts City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Northwood Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed · accessible716 m · 9 min
Health and care
  • Lumacare - Northwood Community Centre · seniors' active living centre719 m · 9 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 (11)
  • Reading Sprouts Garden634 m · 8 min
  • Benjamin Boake Greenbelt775 m · 9 min
  • Spenvalley Park902 m · 11 min
  • Giltspur Park1 km · 11 min
  • Sunfield Park1 km · 12 min
and 6 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools
  • St Martha Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 133 m
  • Calico Public SchoolEnglish Public · 525 m · 6 min
  • Blessed Margherita of Citta Di Castello Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 685 m · 8 min
  • St Jane Frances Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • Sheppard Public & Africentric AlternativeEnglish Public · 1.4 km · 17 min
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Jane/Sheppard branch592 m · 7 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.

41of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food11/30

    2 grocery stores within 1 km · 1 place to eat within 300 m

  • Transit15/28

    8 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go5/14

    library 592 m away

  • Parks and recreation6/10

    nearest park 0.6 km · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care4/8

    1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 1 km

  • 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

Six registered apartment buildings with 840 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 15. The nearest is 7 Arleta Ave (263 m, 201 units, 4 storeys, built 1972), which scored 96 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
7 Arleta Ave Toronto Community Housing · TCH2014197296 · Sep 2025263 m · 3 min
11 Arleta Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1714197293 · Sep 2024361 m · 4 min
1900 Sheppard Ave W Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation274200887 · Jun 2024557 m · 7 min
35 Brookwell Dr · Gold Seal Management Inc.764196590 · Jul 2025795 m · 9 min
18 Seeley Dr · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.9951959100 · Jun 20251 km · 12 min
2000 Sheppard Ave W26620197291 · Sep 20241 km · 12 min

6 registered buildings · 840 units · 3 social housing · tallest 20 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

Toronto Police place five thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 60% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle500street/outdoor (3), apartment parking (2)
Bicycle theft000—

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 Glenfield-Jane Heights.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Sheppard & Buckland a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025, out of 15 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 Sheppard & Buckland?

A moderately heavy crossing. It ranks #764 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.35× the median for a counted intersection.

Is Sheppard & Buckland a walkable intersection?

Sheppard & Buckland scores 41 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; 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: nearest park 0.6 km · 1 community centre within 800 m; 8 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 1 km.

How fast do cars go at Sheppard & Buckland?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Sheppard Ave W between Buckland Rd and Yatescastle Dr (October 2023), found an average of 52 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 61 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 136 m away (50 km/h), 10% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Sheppard & Buckland?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 125 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 9,610 spaces — 7 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Sheppard & Buckland by transit?

Bus routes 84, 120, 108, 35, 99, 984, 935 within 1 km (nearest stop: Sheppard Ave West at Buckland Rd, 23 m).

What restaurants are near Sheppard & Buckland?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 10 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Rona Tuck Shop (217 m), Mozia Food Pantry (361 m), Downview Dells (599 m), Sickkids Ccmh Early On (633 m) and The Parrots Nest Restaurant (696 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Sheppard & Buckland?

The nearest is Northwood Community Centre Washroom, 15 Clubhouse Crt, 716 m away, with an accessible washroom.

Is there child care near Sheppard & Buckland?

One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 161 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Calico Saints Child Care Centre (525 m, 161 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Sheppard & Buckland?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 840 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 7 Arleta Ave (263 m, 201 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 11 Arleta Ave (361 m, 171 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 1900 Sheppard Ave W (557 m, 27 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 35 Brookwell Dr (795 m, 76 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 93 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Sheppard & Buckland?

Toronto Police place five thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Glenfield-Jane Heights page.

What neighbourhood is Sheppard & Buckland in?

Sheppard & Buckland is in Glenfield-Jane Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 025), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek, represented by Councillor Anthony Perruzza.

Sources

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