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Yonge & King

Yonge St & King St · Toronto, Ontario · Yonge-Bay Corridor · Ward 13, Toronto Centre · Financial District BIA

Yonge & King is a mid-volume intersection, with more people on foot than in cars and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in Yonge-Bay Corridor, in the downtown core. It has a live City traffic camera and King Station at the corner. Nearby: Union Station GO 660 m away.

Traffic
12,051
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 25, 2025
42,760 pedestrians · 2,693 cyclists
Collisions
126
police-reported · 2016–2025
1 killed or seriously injured · #862 of 5,519
Getting there
King Station
subway station within 250 m
26 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
91/100
city median 48 · #35 of 5,672
128 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 108 m

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Yonge & King

Traffic and safety

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

Live traffic camera RESCU 8199 · 15 m

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Live camera RESCU 8199 · Yonge St & King St
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Live camera · RESCU 8199 · Yonge St & King St
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Traffic volume14-hour count · Jun 25, 2025

The south leg carries the load — 5,037 northbound vehicles, or 42% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 980. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 982 vehicles in the hour from 9:15 a.m. and 988 from 5:15 p.m. Trucks and buses were 7.8% 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 16,177 vehicles. The count is 16 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north4,699southbound · 782 bikes · 4.9% heavy
From the west1,335eastbound · 763 bikes · 23.1% heavy
Total vehicles12,05142,760 pedestrians · 2,693 cyclists · 7.8% heavy
From the east980westbound · 602 bikes · 5.2% heavy
From the south5,037northbound · 546 bikes · 6.9% heavy

Peak hours: 982 vehicles in the hour from 9:15 a.m. and 988 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

2018 was the peak year (23 collisions), and 2025 closed with 15. 13% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 26 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 21% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 10% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Aug 18, 2026.

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt. It happened in darkness. The most recent was on Feb 1, 2020.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions126#862 of 5,519
With an injury17#1048 of 4,669
Property damage only86
Fail to remain26
Involving a pedestrian8#351 of 3,196
Involving a cyclist5#450 of 2,576
Severity not classified23
Since January 2026 (outside the window)5
Killed or seriously injured1
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20061latest Feb 1, 2020

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.

Traffic on these streets

The City's most recent midblock count on King St E between Church St and St. James Park Trl (335 m away, Nov 2015) recorded volume only — about 5,875 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Yonge St · Melinda St – King St W · 35 mSep 2014 · 7 days11,829———
King St E · Church St – St. James Park Trl · 335 mNov 2015 · 7 days5,875———

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 0031, activated 1927 · leading pedestrian interval North/East/West

Getting there

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

Transit and cycling

Subway
King Station (Line 1)58 m; Queen Station (Line 1)352 m · 4 min; Union Station (Line 1)520 m · 6 min; St Andrew Station (Line 1)655 m · 8 min; TMU Station (Line 1)791 m · 9 min; Osgoode Station (Line 1)923 m · 11 min
GO Transit
Union Station GO — Barrie, Kitchener, Lakeshore East, Lakeshore West, Milton, Richmond Hill, Stouffville660 m · 8 min; GO bus 31 Guelph / Toronto 21 Milton 16 Hamilton / Toronto Express 71 Stouffville 90 Lakeshore East 65 Newmarket / Toronto 61 Richmond Hill 68 Barrie / Newmarket 18 Lakeshore West 35 Union Pearson Express at Union Station Bus Terminal724 m · 9 min
UP Express
UP Express Union Station 1 km · 11 min — trains to Pearson
VIA Rail
Toronto 697 m · 8 min
Streetcar
503 504 508 501 509 510 505 506 nearest 58 m
TTC bus
97 19 121 114 202 75 nearest 14 m
Blue Night
304 301 310 305 306 320
Nearest stops
16 surface stops within 300 m — Yonge St at King St West - King Station; Yonge St at King St East - King Station
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
King St W / Jordan St 71 m · 11 docks · 60 stations, 1,393 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
20 car parks · about 6,759 spaces
EV charging
2 Church St. · 672 m · 24 Level 2 + 4 fast ports; also Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W. (807 m), Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W. (807 m)
Bike parking
128 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 51 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 97 Front St W (750 m)
Other lots
9 mapped lots within 500 m, 503 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
37 Queen St E · Garage562 m63152% (Q1 2026)
87 Richmond St E · Surface646 m2092% (Q1 2026)
2 Church St · Garage674 m1,97216% (Q1 2026)
110 Queen St W · Garage758 m1,63628% (Q1 2026)
40 York St · Garage761 m31141% (Q1 2026)

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

You can do a shop on foot from here: Market Street Catch is 108 m away, one of two grocery stores within 300 m. Three specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Danish Pastry House at 198 m. There are 128 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 367 eating places within a kilometre — 9.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Daily Ritual Cafe, 5 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 32 m away, one of three within 300 m. The nearest hospital site is St. Michael's Hospital, 673 m away, then SickKids at 1.6 km.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Daily Ritual Cafe · 1 King St W5 m
  • Teller's Bar & Lounge · 1 King St W5 m
  • Chipotle · 4 King St W29 m
  • Mad Radish · 4 King St W Unit-10229 m
  • Mos Mos Coffee · 4 King St W Unit-K5b29 m
128 within 300 m · 367 within 1 km
Grocery
Market Street Catch 108 m · 2 within 300 m
Food shops
Danish Pastry House 198 m · 3 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart 32 m · 12 within 1 km
Child care
  • Kids & Company Scotia Plaza · 64 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day121 m
  • Mothercraft Brookfield Place · 52 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day473 m · 6 min
  • George Brown - Richmond Adelaide Childcare Centre · 65 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day630 m · 8 min
10 licensed centres · 556 spaces within 1 km · 7 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • St Lawrence South · Mon Closed, Tue-Fri 8:30am-7:30pm, Sat 6:30am-5:30pm, Sun 9:30am-5:30pm · accessible609 m · 7 min
  • Union Station · Mon-Sun 5:30am-12:45am · accessible619 m · 7 min
Drinking water: Courthouse Square Park 307 m · 4 min (off); Berczy Park 327 m · 4 min
Health and care
  • St. Michael's Hospital · hospital site673 m · 8 min
  • SickKids · hospital site1.6 km · 19 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 (34)
  • Courthouse Square Park302 m · 4 min
  • Berczy Park319 m · 4 min
  • Cloud Gardens331 m · 4 min
  • Toronto Sculpture Garden373 m · 4 min
  • St. James Park476 m · 6 min
and 29 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (21)
  • Victoria Street LINCEnglish Public · 278 m · 3 min
  • Keystone International SchoolsPrivate · 298 m · 4 min
  • George Brown College - St James CampusCollege · 663 m · 8 min
  • St Michael's Choir School - Gymnasium BldgEnglish Separate · 755 m · 9 min
  • St Michael's Choir School - Choral BldgEnglish Separate · 806 m · 10 min
and 16 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library City Hall branch831 m · 10 min
  • Toronto Public Library St. Lawrence branch888 m · 11 min
Places of interest
  • Hockey Hall of FameAttraction · 252 m · 3 min
  • Design ExchangeMuseum · 335 m · 4 min
  • St. Lawrence Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 365 m · 4 min
  • Meridian Hall (formerly Sony Centre for the Performing Arts)Performing Arts · 369 m · 4 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.

91of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #35 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food30/30

    2 grocery stores within 300 m · 128 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit28/28

    King Station · 16 stops within 300 m · 26 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go12/14

    library 831 m away · 8 places of interest within 500 m

  • Parks and recreation7/10

    6 parks 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 foot6/10

    traffic signal · head start for people walking

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

19 registered apartment buildings with 2,527 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 13 of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 36 Church St (359 m, 41 units, 6 storeys, built 1965), which scored 83 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
36 Church St416196583 · Nov 2025359 m · 4 min
90 Adelaide St E · Park Property Management Inc.608198092 · Jul 2025541 m · 6 min
60 Richmond St E Toronto Community Housing · Co-Operative Housing Federation of Toronto508199090 · Aug 2026543 m · 6 min
55 The Esplanade Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation16612198380 · Jul 2025585 m · 7 min
85 The Esplanade social housing · Affordable Property Management1287199793 · Jul 2025606 m · 7 min
1 Church St Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation11513199683 · Sep 2024621 m · 7 min

19 registered buildings · 2,527 units · 13 social housing · tallest 37 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 seven thefts from vehicles and 24 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 5.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 3.1 a year. 100% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 50% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle720street/outdoor (7)
Bicycle theft2470street/outdoor (12), commercial premises (11)

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 Yonge-Bay Corridor.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Yonge & King a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025, out of 126 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 & King?

A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Jun 25, 2025, 74% of the median for a counted intersection, and #13 for pedestrians.

Is Yonge & King a walkable intersection?

Yonge & King scores 91 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #35 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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 grocery stores within 300 m · 128 places to eat within 300 m; King Station · 16 stops within 300 m · 26 routes within 1 km; 2 schools within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking.

Where can I park near Yonge & King?

The nearest Green P car park is 37 Queen St E (562 m away, 631 spaces, 52% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 503 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,410 spaces — 9 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2 Church St. (672 m).

How do I get to Yonge & King by transit?

King Station (Line 1) is 58 m away; Union Station GO is 660 m away; streetcar routes 503, 504, 508, 501 and 4 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 58 m away; bus routes 97, 19, 121, 114, 202, 75 within 1 km (nearest stop: Yonge St at King St West - King Station, 14 m).

What restaurants are near Yonge & King?

128 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 367 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Daily Ritual Cafe (5 m), Teller's Bar & Lounge (5 m), Chipotle (29 m), Mad Radish (29 m) and Mos Mos Coffee (29 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Yonge & King?

The nearest is St Lawrence South, 91 Front Street East, 609 m away (Mon Closed, Tue-Fri 8:30am-7:30pm, Sat 6:30am-5:30pm, Sun 9:30am-5:30pm), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Union Station (619 m); St Lawrence North (621 m).

Is there child care near Yonge & King?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 556 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kids & Company Scotia Plaza (121 m, 64 spaces), Mothercraft Brookfield Place (473 m, 52 spaces) and George Brown - Richmond Adelaide Childcare Centre (630 m, 65 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Yonge & King?

19 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,527 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 36 Church St (359 m, 41 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 90 Adelaide St E (541 m, 60 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 60 Richmond St E (543 m, 50 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 55 The Esplanade (585 m, 166 units, RentSafeTO score 80). The average RentSafeTO score across the 19 is 90 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Yonge & King?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and 24 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Yonge-Bay Corridor page.

What neighbourhood is Yonge & King in?

Yonge & King is in Yonge-Bay Corridor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 170). It is in Ward 13, Toronto Centre, represented by Councillor Chris Moise. The corner falls inside the Financial District Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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