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Wilmington & Finch

Wilmington Ave & Finch Ave W · Toronto, Ontario · Bathurst Manor · Ward 6, York Centre

In Bathurst Manor, Wilmington & Finch is an above-average intersection for traffic. At the corner: a protected bikeway, a school within 250 m and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic
32,288
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 29, 2025
1,124 pedestrians · 173 cyclists · #273 busiest
Collisions
140
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured · #768 of 5,519
Getting there
3
TTC stops within 100 m
7 routes within 1 km · protected bikeway
Within a walk
42/100
city median 48
13 places to eat within 1 km

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Wilmington & Finch

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 · Oct 29, 2025

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 15,751 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 3,623 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (90 of 173). Evening rush dominates here: 3,141 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:15 p.m., against 2,607 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north0southbound · 41 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west12,914eastbound · 90 bikes · 4.2% heavy
Total vehicles32,2881,124 pedestrians · 173 cyclists · 3.9% heavy
From the east15,751westbound · 25 bikes · 3.9% heavy
From the south3,623northbound · 17 bikes · 3.1% heavy

Peak hours: 2,607 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 3,141 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

The worst year was 2024, with 24 collisions; 2025 recorded 10. 32 collisions (23%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 13 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 8 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 6, 2026.

No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 3 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on May 15, 2014.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions140#768 of 5,519
With an injury32#469 of 4,669
Property damage only97
Fail to remain13
Involving a pedestrian2
Involving a cyclist1
Involving a motorcyclist1
Severity not classified11
Since January 2026 (outside the window)8
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20063latest May 15, 2014

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 Wilmington Ave between Purdon Dr and Cedar Springs Grv, 189 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2024 put the average speed at 40 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 47 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 52 km/h or more. That segment carries about 7,700 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Wilmington Ave (167 m away, 30 km/h limit), 33% of the 186,687 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Finch Ave W · Wilmington Ave – Dufferin St · 172 mNov 2011 · 3 days19,604———
Wilmington Ave · Purdon Dr – Cedar Springs Grv · 189 mApr 2024 · 3 days7,65640 km/h47 km/h52 km/h
Speed sign
Wilmington Ave (northbound), 167 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 34 km/h, 85th percentile 45 km/h; 33% at 40 km/h or more. 186,687 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.

The crossing
Signal 0890, activated 1970 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval East/West · transit priority

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

TTC bus
36 104 105 107 nearest 14 m
Express
939
Blue Night
336 329
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Finch Ave West at Wilmington Ave; Finch Ave West at Wilmington Ave West Side
Regional
York Region Transit 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Finch Av544 m · 6 min
Cycling
Cycle Track on Wilmington Ave installed 2020; Multi-Use Trail on Finch Corridor Trl installed 2011
Bike Share
Finch Ave W / Wilmington Ave 89 m · 19 docks · 2 stations, 38 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
11 mapped lots within 500 m, 194 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

No grocery store is listed within a kilometre of this corner. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 13 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Goldie's Sandwiches - An Eisenbergs Company, 669 m away. No pharmacy in the Ministry of Health's register is within a kilometre of this corner. The nearest hospital site is Branson Ambulatory Care Centre, 1.1 km away. For seniors' housing: St. Bernard's Residence, a retirement home 338 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Goldie's Sandwiches - An Eisenbergs Company · 4580 Dufferin St Unit-100669 m · 8 min
  • National Restaurant · 1000 Finch Ave W717 m · 9 min
  • St. Louis Bar & Grill · 4548 Dufferin St828 m · 10 min
  • L&p Village Green Jamaican Restaurant · 1027 Finch Ave W Unit-6886 m · 11 min
  • Mandarin Restaurant · 1027 Finch Ave W Unit-8886 m · 11 min
0 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Food shops
Bread House 932 m · 11 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Child care
  • Wilmington Best Child Care Centre · 171 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day222 m
  • Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre · 30 spaces, school age · fee subsidy382 m · 5 min
  • Carousel Child Care Development Centre · 46 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day666 m · 8 min
4 licensed centres · 296 spaces within 1 km · 3 accept City fee subsidy
Health and care
  • Branson Ambulatory Care Centre · hospital site1.1 km · 13 min
  • St. Bernard's Residence · retirement home338 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 (7)
  • Bayhampton Parkette439 m · 5 min
  • Robert Hicks Park675 m · 8 min
  • Garthdale Parkette1 km · 11 min
  • Irving W. Chapley Park1.1 km · 13 min
  • West Don Parkland1.2 km · 14 min
and 2 more within 1.5 km
Schools (9)
  • Wilmington Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 222 m
  • Charles H Best Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 382 m · 5 min
  • Forest Valley Outdoor Education CentreEnglish Public · 1 km · 12 min
  • Tanenbaum Chat Wallenberg CampusPrivate · 1 km · 12 min
  • Bright Start Academy SchoolPrivate · 1 km · 12 min
and 4 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Centennial branch1 km · 12 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 grocery store, a pharmacy or a public washroom.

42of 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 food3/30

    13 within 1 km

  • Transit13/28

    6 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go5/14

    library 1 km away

  • Parks and recreation5/10

    1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1 km

  • Schools and child care8/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot8/10

    traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals

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 nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 988 rental units — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 707 Finch Ave W (117 m, 150 units, 7 storeys, built 1964), which scored 99 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
707 Finch Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc1507196499 · Jul 2026117 m
711 Finch Ave W00——168 m
715 Finch Ave W · Ranee Management8511197088 · Aug 2024229 m
625 Finch Ave W social housing · H & R Property Management Ltd12314198795 · Oct 2025559 m · 7 min
623 Finch Ave W social housing · H & R Property Management14112198394 · Oct 2025666 m · 8 min
605 Finch Ave W · The Brown Group of Companies Inc.2449196786 · Sep 2024677 m · 8 min

9 registered buildings · 988 units · 3 social housing · tallest 15 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

One theft from a vehicle and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle110street/outdoor (1)
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 Bathurst Manor.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Wilmington & Finch a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 140 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 Wilmington & Finch?

An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #273 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, 2.00× the median for a counted intersection.

Is Wilmington & Finch a walkable intersection?

Wilmington & Finch scores 42 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: 2 schools within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1 km; 6 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals.

How fast do cars go at Wilmington & Finch?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Wilmington Ave between Purdon Dr and Cedar Springs Grv (April 2024), found an average of 40 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 47 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 167 m away (30 km/h), 33% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Wilmington & Finch?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 194 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 46,130 spaces — 11 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Wilmington & Finch by transit?

Bus routes 36, 104, 105, 107, 939 within 1 km (nearest stop: Finch Ave West at Wilmington Ave, 14 m); York Region Transit route 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Finch Av.

What restaurants are near Wilmington & Finch?

None within 300 m, and 13 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Goldie's Sandwiches - An Eisenbergs Company (669 m), National Restaurant (717 m), St. Louis Bar & Grill (828 m), L&p Village Green Jamaican Restaurant (886 m) and Mandarin Restaurant (886 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Wilmington & Finch?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 296 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Wilmington Best Child Care Centre (222 m, 171 spaces), Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre (382 m, 30 spaces) and Carousel Child Care Development Centre (666 m, 46 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Wilmington & Finch?

Nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 988 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 707 Finch Ave W (117 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 711 Finch Ave W (168 m), 715 Finch Ave W (229 m, 85 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 625 Finch Ave W (559 m, 123 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 9 is 91 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Wilmington & Finch?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Bathurst Manor page.

What neighbourhood is Wilmington & Finch in?

Wilmington & Finch is in Bathurst Manor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 034). It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak.

Sources

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