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York Mills & Valley Woods

York Mills Rd & Valley Woods Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Fenside-Parkwoods · Ward 16, Don Valley East

York Mills & Valley Woods is a moderately heavy crossing. It sits in Fenside-Parkwoods. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
13,156
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 27, 2020
168 pedestrians · 8 cyclists
Collisions
188
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
31 with an injury · 139 property damage · #554 of 5,508 · +10 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
3
TTC stops within 100 m
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,640 vehicles an hour, 1.42× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 78 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 19 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 6.1× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. The pace has been steady: 95 collisions in 2016–2020 and 93 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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York Mills & Valley Woods

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
951911222591 nearest 15 m
Express
995996
Blue Night
395
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — York Mills Rd at Valley Woods Rd; 113 Valley Woods Rd
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 (23)
  • Donview Middle Health and Wellness AcademyEnglish Public · 529 m
  • Fenside Public SchoolEnglish Public · 632 m
  • Crestwood Preparatory College SchoolPrivate · 642 m
  • Rene Gordon Health & Wellness AcademyEnglish Public · 654 m
  • George S Henry AcademyEnglish Public · 791 m
  • St Madeleine Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 859 m
  • and 17 more
Community centres
Parks (14)
  • Sandover Park182 m
  • Lynedock Park328 m
  • Laurentide Park510 m
  • Brookbanks Park536 m
  • Spinney Greenbelt548 m
  • Fenside Park742 m
  • and 8 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Brookbanks branch554 m
Places of interest
  • Canadian Sculpture CentreGallery · 1.4 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m of the corner, and 12 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Complete Mart, 187 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2024.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Complete Mart · 1200 York Mills Rd187 mPassed, Sep 2024
Chick N Joy · 1265 York Mills Rd Unit-F3485 mPassed, Sep 2026
Subway · 1265 York Mills Rd Unit-F1-2485 mPassed, May 2026
A + W · 1277 York Mills Rd612 mPassed, Jan 2026
Food Basics · 1277 York Mills Rdgrocery612 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizza Pizza · 1277 York Mills Rd Unit-9612 mPassed, Apr 2026
Tim Hortons · 1277 York Mills Rd Unit-E5612 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 1 infraction
Valley Woods Tuck Shop · 29 Valley Woods Rd618 mPassed, Jul 2024

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 203 m away at Brookbanks Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Brookbanks Park drinking fountain · 203 m; Sandover Park drinking fountain · 211 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 459 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is York Mills Child Care Centre (186 m, 70 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 459 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 7
  • York Mills Child Care Centre · 1200 York Mills Rd
    70 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    186 m
  • Courtleigh Place Child Care Centre · 135 Fenelon Dr
    59 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    560 m
  • Fenside Drive Children's Centre · 131 Fenside Dr
    146 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    632 m
  • Rene Gordon School Age YMCA · 20 Karen Rd
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    654 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 115 (1.8 km), the nearest police station 33 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.8 km away.

FireFire Station 115 · 1.8 km115 Parkway Forest Dr
Police33 Division · 1.7 km50 Upjohn Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 23 · 1.8 km115 Parkway Forest Dr

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

31 registered apartment buildings with 2,904 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1216 York Mills Rd (73 m, 65 units, 8 storeys, built 1964), which scored 94 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 158 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 34 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings31 · 2,904 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026158 across the 31
Open fire-code violations34
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1216 York Mills Rd · CAPREIT658196494 · Sep 2025673 m
1210 York Mills Rd · Tobis Investments Inc.9110196395 · Sep 2025579 m
1222 York Mills Rd · Armbro Group Inc254196392 · Jul 2026193 m
1225 York Mills Rd · Realstar140122023100 · Sep 20259127 m
1230 York Mills Rd · Valley York Manor384196391 · Jul 20261157 m
1200 York Mills Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management22216196798 · Sep 202513 · 7 fire186 m
32 Clayland Dr · Cast Properties Corporation645196796 · Jul 20251215 m
1202 York Mills Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management21922196799 · Sep 202520 · 1 fire224 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 lots345 lots · ≈47,690 spaces · 143.1 ha
Within 500 m12 lots · ≈940 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 87 m away, ≈49 spaces; 94 m away, ≈50 spaces; 103 m away, ≈4 spaces; 107 m away, ≈32 spaces; 165 m away, ≈57 spaces; 170 m away, ≈336 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, Oct 27, 2020

The west leg carries the load — 5,943 eastbound vehicles, or 45% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 548. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,076 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,155 from 4:45 p.m. Trucks and buses were 9.2% 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 6 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north822southbound · 1 bikes · 8.5% heavy
From the west5,943eastbound · 4 bikes · 9.9% heavy
Total vehicles13,156168 pedestrians · 8 cyclists · 9.2% heavy
From the east5,843westbound · 2 bikes · 8.3% heavy
From the south548northbound · 1 bikes · 10.9% heavy
AM peak hour2,076 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,155 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 27, 2020

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 Valley Woods Rd between Brookbanks Park Trl and York Mills Rd (85 m away) recorded an average of 43 km/h in its 24-hour count in November 2012; 85% of drivers were at or under 51 km/h. That segment carries about 1,300 vehicles a day. Sandover Dr between York Mills Rd and Clayland Dr measured slower: 36 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Mar 2009). The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sandover Dr · York Mills Rd – Clayland Dr · 55 mMar 2009 · 24 h2,40236 km/h44 km/h49 km/h
Valley Woods Rd · Brookbanks Park Trl – York Mills Rd · 85 mNov 2012 · 24 h1,30543 km/h51 km/h55 km/h
York Mills Rd · Brookbanks Park Trl – Fenside Dr · 352 mJun 2017 · 3 days12,257

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 (33 collisions), and 2025 closed with 16. 16% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 20 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 11% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 3% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 10 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 23, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions188#554 of 5,508
With an injury31#495 of 4,660
Property damage only139
Fail to remain20
Involving a pedestrian6#635 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified18
Since January 2026 (outside the window)10
All since 2014234latest May 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

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 eight thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 63% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle860street/outdoor (5), apartment parking (3)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 15, 2025. 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 Fenside-Parkwoods.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is York Mills & Valley Woods a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 188 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 York Mills & Valley Woods?

A moderately heavy crossing. Its latest count is from Oct 27, 2020, 1.42× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at York Mills & Valley Woods?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Valley Woods Rd between Brookbanks Park Trl and York Mills Rd (November 2012), found an average of 43 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 51 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near York Mills & Valley Woods?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 345 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 47,690 spaces — 12 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to York Mills & Valley Woods by transit?

Bus routes 95, 191, 122, 25, 91, 995, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: York Mills Rd at Valley Woods Rd, 15 m).

What restaurants are near York Mills & Valley Woods?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 12 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Complete Mart (187 m), Chick N Joy (485 m), Subway (485 m), A + W (612 m) and Pizza Pizza (612 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 York Mills & Valley Woods?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 203 m away at Brookbanks Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near York Mills & Valley Woods?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 459 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are York Mills Child Care Centre (186 m, 70 spaces), Courtleigh Place Child Care Centre (560 m, 59 spaces) and Fenside Drive Children's Centre (632 m, 146 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near York Mills & Valley Woods?

31 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,904 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1216 York Mills Rd (73 m, 65 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 1210 York Mills Rd (79 m, 91 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 1222 York Mills Rd (93 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 1225 York Mills Rd (127 m, 140 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 31 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 York Mills & Valley Woods?

Toronto Police place eight thefts from vehicles 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 Fenside-Parkwoods page.

What neighbourhood is York Mills & Valley Woods in?

York Mills & Valley Woods is in Fenside-Parkwoods (City of Toronto neighbourhood 150). It is in Ward 16, Don Valley East, represented by Councillor Jon Burnside.

Sources

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