Neighbourhood profile

The Beaches

The Beaches holds 6,716 addresses across 3.6 km², and ranks 1st of 158 Toronto neighbourhoods for grocery shopping close to home.

Overall, across all measured dimensions90th of 158

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

How The Beaches compares

Each measure is a rank against all 158 City of Toronto neighbourhoods. Lower is better.

Transit access

38th

Proximity to TTC subway, streetcar and bus, weighted by walking distance.

18.8 / 20 · top quarter

Schools nearby

95th

Walking distance to TDSB and TCDSB schools. Proximity only — no ratings are used.

9.6 / 15 · below the city median

Everyday shopping

1st

Grocery stores and supermarkets within a short walk.

10.0 / 10 · top 10% of Toronto

Neighbourhood character

132nd

Reported incident volume, severity-weighted using the Statistics Canada method.

5.4 / 25 · bottom quarter

By the numbers

Addresses
6,716
over 3.6 km²
Transit stops
58
0 subway
Schools
10
TDSB + TCDSB
Grocery stores
7
inside the boundary

What’s here

Rapid transit

Streetcar service along Kingston Rd.

Schools

  • St Denis Catholic Elementary School · Toronto Catholic District School Board · Elementary
  • Academy of Thought and Industry Toronto · None
  • Avalon Children'S Montessori School · None
  • Balmy Beach Community School · Toronto District School Board
  • Boardwalk Montessori School · None
  • Glen Ames Sr Public School · Toronto District School Board
  • Kew Beach Jr Public School · Toronto District School Board
  • The Claremont School · None
  • The Cole Academy · None
  • Williamson Road Jr Public School · Toronto District School Board

Groceries

  • Bruno’s Fine Foods · supermarket
  • Carload on the Beach · supermarket
  • Foodland · supermarket
  • Loblaws · supermarket
  • Rowe Beach Market · supermarket
  • The Big Carrot · supermarket
  • Your Independent Grocer · supermarket

Where the money is going

Toronto publishes every cleared building permit with its estimated construction cost. These are the largest on record in The Beaches — a read on where the neighbourhood is being rebuilt, not on what homes are worth.

AddressTypeConstruction value
419 Woodbine AveApartment Building$30M
907 Kingston RdRecreational$16M
303 Kingston RdMixed Use/Res w Non Res$8M
101 Kippendavie AveElementary School$5M
843 Eastern AveOther$3M
22 Balsam AveSFD - Detached$2M
130 Scarborough RdSFD - Detached$2M
24 Williamson RdElementary School$2M

Next door

Neighbourhoods that share a boundary with The Beaches.

Woodbine Corridor24thGreenwood-Coxwell34thEast End-Danforth64thBirchcliffe-Cliffside102ndSouth Riverdale121st

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.

Last computed today. Data refreshes nightly. Nothing on this page is an appraisal, a valuation, or advice about where to live.