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Sheppard & Hawksbury

Sheppard Ave E & Hawksbury Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Bayview Village · Ward 17, Don Valley North

Sheppard & Hawksbury is an above-average intersection for traffic. It sits in Bayview Village. It has a school within 250 m and parks at the corner. Nearby: Bayview Station (Line 4) 304 m away.

Traffic volume
27,074
vehicles · 14-hour count, Mar 1, 2025
1,345 pedestrians · 9 cyclists · #454 busiest
Collisions
100
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
13 with an injury · 76 property damage · #1119 of 5,508 · +4 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 3 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Bayview Station 304 m · 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 1,930 vehicles, 1.67× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 20 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 10 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 3.7 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions fell 33%, from 60 in 2016–2020 to 40 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Sheppard & Hawksbury

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Bayview Station (Line 4)304 m; Bessarion Station (Line 4)570 m
TTC bus
1851111578 nearest 20 m
Blue Night
385
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Sheppard Ave East at Hawksbury Dr; Sheppard Ave East at Rean Dr
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Hawksbury Dr / Sheppard Ave E 40 m · 15 docks · 2 stations, 26 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 (14)
  • St George AcademyPrivate · 68 m
  • North York LINCEnglish Public · 385 m
  • Elkhorn Public SchoolEnglish Public · 453 m
  • St Gabriel Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 641 m
  • Hollywood Public SchoolEnglish Public · 760 m
  • Bayview Middle SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 8 more
Parks (26)
  • Rean Drive Parkette60 m
  • Kenaston Park214 m
  • Rean Park269 m
  • Kenaston Gardens Parkette302 m
  • Hawksbury Park340 m
  • Bayview Parkette445 m
  • and 20 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Ethennonnhawahstihnen' (formely Bayview) branch605 m
Signal
0742, activated 1970 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 36 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Amica Bayview Gardens, 87 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés10 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Amica Bayview Gardens · 19 Rean Dr87 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction
Bon Italia · 591 Sheppard Ave E107 mPassed, Aug 2026
Chef Snoopy · 650 Sheppard Ave E 5163 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Amica Bayview Village · 15 Barberry Pl171 mPassed, Sep 2026
Pizza Pizza · 644 Sheppard Ave W208 mPassed, Mar 2025
Pita Lite · 644 Sheppard Ave W208 mPassed, Feb 2026
Pizza Pizza · 644 Sheppard Ave W208 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Marry Me Mochi · 2901 Bayview Ave 107279 mPassed, Jul 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 Ethennonnhawahstihnen Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 891 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 236 m away at Kenaston Park.

  • Ethennonnhawahstihnen Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 80 Mcmahon Dr E
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    891 m
Drinking water
Kenaston Park bottle filling station · 236 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 674 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is North York Jr YMCA (362 m, 78 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 674 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 7
  • North York Jr YMCA · 567 Sheppard Ave E
    78 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    362 m
  • Elkhorn Junior Y - (YMCA) · 10 Elkhorn Dr
    102 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    453 m
  • Ethennonnhawahstihnen Child Care Centre · 100 Ethennonnhawahstihnen Lane
    52 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    598 m
  • St. Gabriel's Jr YMCA · 396 Spring Garden Ave
    87 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    641 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 116 (1.5 km), the nearest police station 32 Division (2.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.6 km away.

FireFire Station 116 · 1.5 km255 Esther Shiner Blvd
Police32 Division · 2.6 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 56 · 2.6 km3300 Bayview Ave

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

13 registered apartment buildings with 1,500 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner. The nearest is 640 Sheppard Ave E (80 m, 128 units, 19 storeys, built 1970), which scored 94 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 34 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings13 · 1,500 units
RentSafeTO score89 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202634 across the 13
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
640 Sheppard Ave E12819197094 · Jul 2025180 m
642 Sheppard Ave E · GWLRA Residential12619197086 · Jul 20263156 m
644 Sheppard Ave E · GWLRA Residential12818197085 · Jul 20264207 m
11 Dervock Cres · CAPREIT774195995 · Aug 20245290 m
22 Elkhorn Dr · Sterling Karamar Property Management2235197086 · Aug 20258 · 1 fire325 m
75 Talara Dr · CAPREIT664197097 · Aug 202510336 m
688 Sheppard Ave E · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc354195885 · Jul 20251343 m
71 Talara Dr · Signet Group Inc293195982 · Sep 20240385 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 lots233 lots · ≈21,470 spaces · 64.4 ha
Within 500 m53 lots · ≈3,790 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 102 spaces
EV charging (City)Bessarion CC · 601 m · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Leslie Lot - 2760 Old Leslie Street · Surface1.3 km102 *

Nearest lots: 87 m away, ≈65 spaces; 126 m away, ≈48 spaces; 132 m away, ≈49 spaces; 150 m away, ≈108 spaces; 163 m away, ≈7 spaces; 167 m away, ≈20 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 — 14-hour, Mar 1, 2025 (a weekend day)

The west leg carries the load — 10,999 eastbound vehicles, or 41% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 2,582. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 2,717 vehicles in the hour from 2:00 p.m., 39% above the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. (1,952). Heavy vehicles made up 0.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is 18 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north2,966southbound · 2 bikes · 0.2% heavy
From the west10,999eastbound · 2 bikes · 0.7% heavy
Total vehicles27,0741,345 pedestrians · 9 cyclists · 0.6% heavy
From the east10,527westbound · 4 bikes · 0.8% heavy
From the south2,582northbound · 1 bikes · 0.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,952 vehicles from 9:30 a.m.
PM peak hour2,717 vehicles from 2:00 p.m.
Count14-hour · Mar 1, 2025 · weekend

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 counter on Hawksbury Dr between Sheppard Ave E and Elkhorn Dr (118 m away) recorded an average of 37 km/h in its 24-hour count in February 2020; 85% of drivers were at or under 44 km/h. That segment carries about 3,000 vehicles a day. Rean Dr between Thomas Clark Way and Sheppard Ave E measured slower: 32 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 40 km/h (Oct 2021). The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Elkhorn Dr (353 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 307 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Rean Dr · Thomas Clark Way – Sheppard Ave E · 53 mOct 2021 · 3 days3,07932 km/h40 km/h45 km/h
Hawksbury Dr · Sheppard Ave E – Elkhorn Dr · 118 mFeb 2020 · 24 h3,00837 km/h44 km/h48 km/h
Sheppard Ave E · Bayview Ave – Kenaston Gdns · 333 mSep 2014 · 7 days20,500

School-zone speed sign 353 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 0 km/h
Over the limit0.0%
50 km/h or more0.0%

Elkhorn Dr (eastbound), 53m West of Elkhorn Drive · 307 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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

2019 was the peak year (17 collisions), and 2025 closed with 9. 13% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 15 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 15% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 2% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 5, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 3.7 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions100#1119 of 5,508
With an injury13#1403 of 4,660
Property damage only76
Fail to remain15
Involving a pedestrian2#1996 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified11
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 2014132latest May 5, 2026

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. 3 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Oct 25, 2010.

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

Toronto Police place 23 thefts from vehicles and six bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 18 in 2023–2025, about 6.0 a year, against 1.6 a year before that. 48% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 67% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Mar 6, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle23181street/outdoor (11), apartment parking (10)
Bicycle theft600apartment parking (4), commercial premises (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 6, 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 Bayview Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Sheppard & Hawksbury a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 100 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 Sheppard & Hawksbury?

An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #454 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.67× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Sheppard & Hawksbury?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Hawksbury Dr between Sheppard Ave E and Elkhorn Dr (February 2020), found an average of 37 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 353 m away (40 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Sheppard & Hawksbury?

The nearest Green P car park is Leslie Lot - 2760 Old Leslie Street (1.3 km away, 102 spaces). The City's mapping shows 233 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,470 spaces — 53 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at Bessarion CC (601 m).

How do I get to Sheppard & Hawksbury by transit?

Bayview Station (Line 4) is 304 m away; bus routes 185, 11, 115, 78 within 1 km (nearest stop: Sheppard Ave East at Hawksbury Dr, 20 m).

What restaurants are near Sheppard & Hawksbury?

10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 36 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Amica Bayview Gardens (87 m), Bon Italia (107 m), Chef Snoopy (163 m), Amica Bayview Village (171 m) and Pizza Pizza (208 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 Sheppard & Hawksbury?

The nearest is Ethennonnhawahstihnen Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 80 Mcmahon Dr E, 891 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. 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 Sheppard & Hawksbury?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 674 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are North York Jr YMCA (362 m, 78 spaces), Elkhorn Junior Y - (YMCA) (453 m, 102 spaces) and Ethennonnhawahstihnen Child Care Centre (598 m, 52 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Sheppard & Hawksbury?

13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,500 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 640 Sheppard Ave E (80 m, 128 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 642 Sheppard Ave E (156 m, 126 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 644 Sheppard Ave E (207 m, 128 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 11 Dervock Cres (290 m, 77 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 89 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 Sheppard & Hawksbury?

Toronto Police place 23 thefts from vehicles and six bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 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 Bayview Village page.

What neighbourhood is Sheppard & Hawksbury in?

Sheppard & Hawksbury is in Bayview Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 052). It is in Ward 17, Don Valley North, represented by Councillor Shelley Carroll.

Sources

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