How walkable is Downtown Toronto?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Downtown Toronto has a walkability score of 97 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 2nd most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Toronto, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
6,083 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Downtown Toronto. The nearest grocery is World Food Market, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- H Mart1 min
- T&T Supermarket Downtown Store2 min
- Birria Catrina1 min
- Bodega Burgers1 min
- Tokyo Smoke1 min
- 7-Eleven1 min
- Second Cup1 min
- Starbucks2 min
- Money Mart3 min
- CIBC3 min
- Trinity Square4 min
- College Park4 min
- St. Michael's Choir School6 min
- New Heights Academy7 min
- Sheldon and Tracy Levy Student Learning Centre1 min
- Toronto Metropolitan University Campus Store1 min
- Ryerson Performance Youth and Community Programs1 min
- Performance at The Creative School1 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Downtown Toronto at 43.6573, -79.3810. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 77 street intersections per km², and blocks average 108 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Downtown Toronto
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 2 km around the centre of Downtown Toronto. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Toronto
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Financial District | 950 m | 100 |
| Yorkville | 1.7 km | 95 |
| Distillery District | 1.9 km | 95 |
| The Annex | 2.4 km | 95 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Toronto page.
Questions about walking in Downtown Toronto
Is Downtown Toronto walkable?
Yes. Downtown Toronto has a walkability score of 97 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Downtown Toronto more walkable than the rest of Toronto?
Downtown Toronto is more walkable than Toronto as a whole: it scores 97, against 82 for the 5 km around Toronto's centre. It ranks 2nd of the 5 Toronto neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Toronto?
Of the 5 Toronto neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Financial District (100), Downtown Toronto (97) and The Annex (95).
How is the walkability score of Downtown Toronto calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Downtown Toronto it is the average of 60 points spread evenly across the 2 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.