Neighbourhood profile
North St.James Town
North St.James Town holds 375 addresses across 0.42 km², and ranks 1st of 158 Toronto neighbourhoods for grocery shopping close to home.
The overall position is a summary of the four measures below. Those are the useful numbers — a single combined figure compresses most of Toronto into a narrow band and separates very little.
What stands out
- Strongest on everyday shopping — 1st of 158, top 10% of Toronto.
- 2 subway stops inside the boundary, including Sherbourne Station - Eastbound Platform and Sherbourne Station - Westbound Platform.
- $425M of construction value on record across 68 building permits.
How North St.James Town compares
Each measure is a rank against all 158 City of Toronto neighbourhoods. Lower is better.
Transit access
13thProximity to TTC subway, streetcar and bus, weighted by walking distance.
19.8 / 20 · top 10% of Toronto
Schools nearby
58thWalking distance to TDSB and TCDSB schools. Proximity only — no ratings are used.
10.8 / 15 · above the city median
Everyday shopping
1stGrocery stores and supermarkets within a short walk.
10.0 / 10 · top 10% of Toronto
Neighbourhood character
153rdReported incident volume, severity-weighted using the Statistics Canada method.
0.3 / 25 · bottom quarter
By the numbers
What’s here
Rapid transit
- Sherbourne Station - Eastbound Platform · Subway
- Sherbourne Station - Westbound Platform · Subway
Schools
- Monsignor Fraser College - Isabella Campus · Toronto Catholic District School Board
- Monsignor Fraser College - Isabella North · Toronto Catholic District School Board
- Rose Avenue Jr Public School · Toronto District School Board
Groceries
- Food Basics · supermarket
- FreshCo · supermarket
- No Frills · supermarket
- Rabba · supermarket
- Wan2 supermarket · supermarket
Where the money is going
Toronto publishes every cleared building permit with its estimated construction cost. These are the largest on record in North St.James Town — a read on where the neighbourhood is being rebuilt, not on what homes are worth.
| Address | Type | Construction value |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Howard St | Mixed Use/Res w Non Res | $202M |
| 592 Sherbourne St | Mixed Use/Res w Non Res | $103M |
| 545-565 Sherbourne St | Mixed Use/Res w Non Res | $68M |
| 495 Sherbourne St | Community Hall | $12M |
| 1 Mount Pleasant Rd | Office | $8M |
| 275 Bleecker St | Apartment Building | $6M |
| 650 Parliament St | Apartment Building | $5M |
| 505 Jarvis St | Gas Station/Car Wash/Repair Garage | $4M |
Next door
Neighbourhoods that share a boundary with North St.James Town.
How this was measured
Everything here is computed from open data: City of Toronto address points, building permits and neighbourhood boundaries; Toronto Police Service major crime indicators; TTC schedules; and TDSB and TCDSB school locations.
School figures are proximity only. No school rating or ranking is used anywhere on this site — a distance to a school is a verifiable fact about a location, while a school rating largely reflects the income and demographics of its catchment.
Neighbourhood character is derived from reported incident volume, severity-weighted using the Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index method, so that offences of very different seriousness are not counted as equivalent.
A note on precision for North St.James Town. This boundary is smaller than the ~0.74 km² grid cell the measurements are computed on, so its scores are read from the cells immediately around it rather than measured inside it. The named schools, stations, stores and permits above are exact; the four ranked measures are approximate.
Last computed today. Data refreshes nightly. Nothing on this page is an appraisal, a valuation, or advice about where to live.