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Yonge & Connaught

Yonge St & Connaught Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Newtonbrook East · Ward 18, Willowdale

Yonge & Connaught is a heavily travelled arterial crossing. It sits in Newtonbrook East. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: Finch Station (Line 1) 1.0 km away.

Traffic volume
19,865
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 14, 2021
991 pedestrians · 13 cyclists
Collisions
40
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
10 with an injury · 22 property damage · #2407 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1480 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Finch Station 1 km · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 2,480 vehicles, 2.1× 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 4 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 108%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 27 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 40 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Yonge & Connaught

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Finch Station (Line 1)1 km
GO Transit
GO bus 32 Brampton Trinity Common / North York27 Milton / North York19 Mississauga / North York96 Oshawa / Finch Express67 Keswick / North York at Yonge St. @ Cummer Ave.206 m
TTC bus
536097125429839 nearest 68 m
Express
953960939
Blue Night
320353
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m — Yonge St at Patricia Ave
Regional
York Region Transit 002 Milliken005 Clark023 Thornhill Woods077 Highway 7088 Bathurst091 Bayview098|099 Yonge (Late Night)099 Yonge300 Business Express301 Markham Express302 Unionville Express303 Bur Oak Express at Yonge St / Connaught Av16 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Finch Subway Station 859 m · 19 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.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (17)
  • Alpha Quality Education SchoolPrivate · 264 m
  • Drewry AcademyPrivate · 275 m
  • Drewry Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 374 m
  • Monseigneur de Charbonnel Catholic Secondary SchoolFrench Separate · 549 m
  • Avondale Secondary Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 594 m
  • Willowdale Christian SchoolPrivate · 652 m
  • and 11 more
Community centres
Parks (19)
  • Centre Park240 m
  • Goulding Park397 m
  • Fairchild Parkette506 m
  • Silverview Park699 m
  • Hendon Park906 m
  • Wedgewood Park - North York941 m
  • and 13 more

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 26 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores, and 96 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Brown Donkatsu, 27 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés26 within 300 m · 96 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Brown Donkatsu · 6024 Yonge St27 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Woojoo Bunsik · 6026 Yonge St27 mPassed, Nov 2025 · 1 infraction
Woojoo Bunsik · 6026 Yonge St27 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizza Hut · 6005 Yonge St31 mPassed, Apr 2026
Tim Hortons · 6001 Yonge St31 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Pine Tree Korean Restaurant · 6028 Yonge St41 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Daldongnae · 6034 Yonge St50 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Daldongnae · 6034 Yonge St50 mPassed, Apr 2025 · 1 infraction

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 Goulding Community Centre Washroom, 385 m away, View centre hours; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 243 m away at Centre Park.

  • Goulding Community Centre Washroom · 45 Goulding Ave
    View centre hours · accessible
    385 m
Drinking water
Centre Park drinking fountain · 243 m; Goulding Park drinking fountain · 331 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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 164 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Forest Grove Montessori Preschool (607 m, 30 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km3 centres · 164 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 3
  • Forest Grove Montessori Preschool · 53 Madawaska Ave
    30 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    607 m
  • Play and Grow Child Care Centre · 227 Drewry Ave
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    0.9 km
  • Tiki's Day Care Centre · 20 Tangreen Crt
    63 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 114 (1.9 km), the nearest police station 32 Division (2.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.9 km away.

FireFire Station 114 · 1.9 km12 Canterbury Pl
Police32 Division · 2 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 58 · 1.9 km12 Canterbury Pl

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

11 registered apartment buildings with 1,878 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 6061 Yonge St (100 m, 304 units, 19 storeys, built 1968), which scored 92 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 11 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 32 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 25 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings11 · 1,878 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202632 across the 11
Open fire-code violations25
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
6061 Yonge St · M&r Property Management30419196892 · Jun 20240100 m
6000 Yonge St · Connaught Yonge Square Limited26518196391 · Aug 20253109 m
1 Homewood Ave · North 44 Property Management Inc674194091 · Jul 20262187 m
45 Cummer Avesocial housing · Community First Development Inc534199694 · Nov 20250321 m
5900 Yonge St · Q Residential23313197095 · Aug 20255342 m
33 Drewry Avesocial housing · Community First Developments Inc816199669 · Sep 20260346 m
6210 Yonge St · Better Living Homes Inc.837196888 · Aug 20252 · 15 fire535 m
5754 Yonge St · Colonnade Bridgeport11812197080 · Jun 20240 · 10 fire679 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 lots273 lots · ≈31,020 spaces · 93 ha
Within 500 m48 lots · ≈2,970 spaces
Green P (public)4 car parks · about 2,537 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Finch East - 814 Willowdale Ave - partial closure, reduced spaces · Surface800 m900 *
Finch West Lot - 18 Hendon Ave · Surface824 m1,552 *
5667 Yonge Street · Surface894 m23 *
11 Finch Ave W · Surface1.1 km6267% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 36 m away, ≈4 spaces; 42 m away, ≈6 spaces; 50 m away, ≈8 spaces; 60 m away, ≈82 spaces; 78 m away, ≈49 spaces; 80 m away, ≈87 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 — 8-hour, Dec 14, 2021

The north leg carries the load — 9,713 southbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 238. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 3,209 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 65% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (1,939). Trucks and buses were 6.8% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north9,713southbound · 4 bikes · 7.0% heavy
From the west238eastbound · 0 bikes · 2.5% heavy
Total vehicles19,865991 pedestrians · 13 cyclists · 6.8% heavy
From the east337westbound · 1 bikes · 1.5% heavy
From the south9,577northbound · 8 bikes · 6.8% heavy
AM peak hour1,939 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour3,209 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 14, 2021

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 Yonge St between Connaught Ave and Patricia Ave (50 m away, Oct 2012) recorded volume only — about 27,944 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Drewry Ave (391 m away, 40 km/h limit), 1.3% of the 29,345 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Yonge St · Connaught Ave – Patricia Ave · 50 mOct 2012 · 3 days27,944
Connaught Ave · Yonge St – Lariviere Rd · 95 mNov 2006 · 7 days1,093

School-zone speed sign 391 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct39 · 44 km/h
Over the limit12%
50 km/h or more1.3%

Drewry Ave (westbound), N Side Drewry Ave E of Rodeo Ct · 29,345 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

2024 was the peak year (13 collisions), and 2025 closed with 4. 25% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 9 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 5% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 2, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions40#2407 of 5,508
With an injury10#1789 of 4,660
Property damage only22
Fail to remain9
Involving a pedestrian2#2079 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified8
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201450latest Apr 2, 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 daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Aug 19, 2022.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1480 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Aug 19, 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

Toronto Police place 22 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 3.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 15 in 2023–2025, about 5.0 a year, against 1.0 a year before that. 73% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 29, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle22151street/outdoor (16), commercial premises (4)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 29, 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 Newtonbrook East.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Yonge & Connaught a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1480 of 1,505), out of 40 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 Yonge & Connaught?

A heavily travelled arterial crossing. Its latest count is from Dec 14, 2021, 2.1× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Yonge & Connaught?

The nearest Green P car park is Finch East - 814 Willowdale Ave - partial closure, reduced spaces (800 m away, 900 spaces). The City's mapping shows 273 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 31,020 spaces — 48 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Yonge & Connaught by transit?

Finch Station (Line 1) is 1.0 km away; bus routes 53, 60, 97, 125, 42, 98, 39, 953 and 2 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Yonge St at Patricia Ave, 68 m); York Region Transit routes 002 Milliken, 005 Clark, 023 Thornhill Woods, 077 Highway 7 at Yonge St / Connaught Av.

What restaurants are near Yonge & Connaught?

26 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 96 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Brown Donkatsu (27 m), Woojoo Bunsik (27 m), Woojoo Bunsik (27 m), Pizza Hut (31 m) and Tim Hortons (31 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 Yonge & Connaught?

The nearest is Goulding Community Centre Washroom, 45 Goulding Ave, 385 m away (View centre hours), 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 Yonge & Connaught?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 164 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Forest Grove Montessori Preschool (607 m, 30 spaces), Play and Grow Child Care Centre (0.9 km, 71 spaces) and Tiki's Day Care Centre (1.0 km, 63 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Yonge & Connaught?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,878 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 6061 Yonge St (100 m, 304 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 6000 Yonge St (109 m, 265 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1 Homewood Ave (187 m, 67 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 45 Cummer Ave (321 m, 53 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 88 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 Yonge & Connaught?

Toronto Police place 22 thefts from vehicles and no 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 Newtonbrook East page.

What neighbourhood is Yonge & Connaught in?

Yonge & Connaught is in Newtonbrook East (City of Toronto neighbourhood 050). It is in Ward 18, Willowdale, represented by Councillor Lily Cheng.

Sources

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