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Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky

Wilson Heights Blvd & Joel Swirsky Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Clanton Park · Ward 6, York Centre

In Clanton Park, Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky is a moderately heavy crossing. At the corner: a park and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: Sheppard West Station (Line 1) 723 m away.

Traffic volume
25,712
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 8, 2024
63 pedestrians · 26 cyclists · #527 busiest
Collisions
15
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 9 property damage · #3833 of 5,508 · +3 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1471 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Sheppard West Station 723 m · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 1,840 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 1.59× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 408 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 1.5 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 0.6 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Just one of those 15 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Sheppard West Station (Line 1)723 m
TTC bus
10484107106108105 nearest 389 m
Express
984
Blue Night
384329
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Regional
York Region Transit 105 Dufferin at Sheppard West Station672 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station 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 (8)
  • Yeshiva Or Chaim Bnei Akiva Boys SchoolPrivate · 452 m
  • Dublin Heights Elementary & Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 636 m
  • The Toronto Heschel SchoolPrivate · 714 m
  • St Robert Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 867 m
  • Faywood Arts Based Curriculum SchoolEnglish Public · 921 m
  • William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 2 more
Parks (11)
  • Joel Swirsky Parkette200 m
  • Michael Mostyn Balmoral Park360 m
  • Banting Park528 m
  • Wilson Heights Park606 m
  • Midvale Parkette844 m
  • Ellison Park1 km
  • and 5 more
Places of interest
  • Bubble PlanetAttraction · 1.5 km
Signal
2746, activated 2026 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 26 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Pizza Nova, 533 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 26 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 4 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pizza Nova · 520 Wilson Heights Blvd533 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Times Square Diner · 531 Wilson Heights Blvd542 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Country Style Donuts · 524 Wilson Heights Blvd545 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions
Complete Mart · 537 Wilson Heights Blvd559 mPassed, Feb 2024
Bun Bo Hue O Nom · 911 Sheppard Ave W615 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Petro Canada Neighbours · 901 Sheppard Ave Wgrocery615 mPassed, Aug 2024
Tim Hortons · 901 Sheppard Ave W615 mPassed, Aug 2024 · 2 infractions
Josie's Sports Bar & Cafe · 881 Sheppard Ave W620 mPassed, Jun 2025

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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 360 m away at Michael Mostyn Balmoral Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Michael Mostyn Balmoral Park drinking fountain · 360 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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 578 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Dublin Heights Community Child Care (636 m, 166 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km5 centres · 578 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 5
  • Dublin Heights Community Child Care · 100 Bainbridge Ave
    166 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    636 m
  • The Toronto Heschel School · 819 Sheppard Ave W
    96 spaces · preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    714 m
  • Moshava Ba'ir Day Camp of Toronto - Preschool · 819 Sheppard Ave W
    74 spaces · preschool, kindergarten
    714 m
  • St. Robert School Age YMCA · 70 Bainbridge Ave
    86 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    867 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 143 (673 m), the nearest police station 32 Division (4.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 143 · 673 m1009 Sheppard Ave W
Police32 Division · 4.2 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 54 · 1.4 km4135 Bathurst St

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 five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 106 rental units. The nearest is 10 Wilmington Ave (759 m, 41 units, 4 storeys, built 1960), which scored 93 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. No Landlord and Tenant Board order named any of them in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings5 · 106 units
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 5
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest4 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
10 Wilmington Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc.414196093 · Jul 20260759 m
1 Wilmington Ave · Ryis Properties Inc123195993 · Jul 20260762 m
20 Wilmington Ave134196576 · Jul 20250799 m
15 Wilmington Ave243195899 · Jul 20250804 m
1042 Sheppard Ave W · Firm Capital164195097 · Aug 20260823 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 lots331 lots · ≈42,920 spaces · 128.7 ha
Within 500 m2 lots · ≈460 spaces
Green P (public)4 car parks · about 2,234 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Downsview Lot - 415 William R Allen Rd · Surface418 m632 *
Wilson Main Lot - 50 Wilson Heights Blvd · Surface1.2 km885 *
Transit Road Lot - 25 Transit Rd · Surface1.4 km72 *
Wilson South Lot - 30 Tippett Road · Surface1.5 km645 *

Nearest lots: 292 m away, ≈383 spaces; 458 m away, ≈72 spaces; 523 m away, ≈667 spaces; 533 m away, ≈69 spaces; 541 m away, ≈37 spaces; 559 m away, ≈81 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, Oct 8, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 12,766 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 509 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,467 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,529 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 23 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north12,437southbound · 7 bikes · 2.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles25,71263 pedestrians · 26 cyclists · 2.0% heavy
From the east509westbound · 0 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the south12,766northbound · 19 bikes · 2.1% heavy
AM peak hour2,467 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,529 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 8, 2024

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 Wilson Heights Blvd between Walkway S of Joel Swirsky and E of Wilson Heights and Joel Swirsky Blvd, 44 m from the corner, a 3-day count in January 2023 put the average speed at 58 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 66 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 73 km/h or more. That segment carries about 20,800 vehicles a day. Joel Swirsky Blvd between Wilson Heights Blvd and Joel Swirsky Parkette Trl measured slower: 36 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Aug 2011).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Wilson Heights Blvd · Walkway S of Joel Swirsky and E of Wilson Heights – Joel Swirsky Blvd · 44 mJan 2023 · 3 days20,79858 km/h66 km/h73 km/h
Joel Swirsky Blvd · Wilson Heights Blvd – Joel Swirsky Parkette Trl · 85 mAug 2011 · 24 h1,28336 km/h44 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 worst year was 2024, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 5 collisions (33%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 7% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%). Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 23, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 0.6 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions15#3833 of 5,508
With an injury5#2843 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#2530 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201421latest Mar 23, 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

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 darkness. The most recent was on Feb 22, 2022.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1471 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20061latest Feb 22, 2022

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

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

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100other (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 11, 2017. 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 Clanton Park.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1471 of 1,505), 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 Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

A moderately heavy crossing. It ranks #527 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.59× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Wilson Heights Blvd between Walkway S of Joel Swirsky and E of Wilson Heights and Joel Swirsky Blvd (January 2023), found an average of 58 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 66 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

The nearest Green P car park is Downsview Lot - 415 William R Allen Rd (418 m away, 632 spaces). The City's mapping shows 331 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 42,920 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky by transit?

Sheppard West Station (Line 1) is 723 m away; bus routes 104, 84, 107, 106, 108, 105, 984 within 1 km; York Region Transit route 105 Dufferin at Sheppard West Station.

What restaurants are near Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

None within 300 m, and 26 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Pizza Nova (533 m), Times Square Diner (542 m), Country Style Donuts (545 m), Complete Mart (559 m) and Bun Bo Hue O Nom (615 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 Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 360 m away at Michael Mostyn Balmoral Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 578 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Dublin Heights Community Child Care (636 m, 166 spaces), The Toronto Heschel School (714 m, 96 spaces) and Moshava Ba'ir Day Camp of Toronto - Preschool (714 m, 74 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 106 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 10 Wilmington Ave (759 m, 41 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 1 Wilmington Ave (762 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 20 Wilmington Ave (799 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 76) and 15 Wilmington Ave (804 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 99). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 92 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 Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle 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 Clanton Park page.

What neighbourhood is Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky in?

Wilson Heights & Joel Swirsky is in Clanton Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 033). 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