How walkable is Yorkville?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Yorkville has a walkability score of 95 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Toronto, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
2,901 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Yorkville. The nearest grocery is Pusateri's Fine Foods, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Valumart4 min
- Independent City Market Bloor4 min
- Greenhouse Juice Co.1 min
- d|bar1 min
- Apollo Cannabis Clinic1 min
- Herman-Sellers-Gough Furs1 min
- Coco Espresso Bar2 min
- Starbucks2 min
- BMO Bank of Montreal4 min
- TD Bank Private Banking - Adrian Palmer4 min
- Village of Yorkville Park2 min
- Town Hall Square3 min
- The Linden School5 min
- The Rosedale Day School6 min
- Salon du livre de Toronto4 min
- Toronto Reference Library5 min
- University Theatre4 min
- 888yonge4 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Yorkville at 43.6714, -79.3902. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 71 street intersections per km², and blocks average 107 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 Yorkville
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Yorkville. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Toronto
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| The Annex | 1.2 km | 95 |
| Downtown Toronto | 1.7 km | 97 |
| Financial District | 2.7 km | 100 |
| Distillery District | 3.4 km | 95 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Toronto page.
Questions about walking in Yorkville
Is Yorkville walkable?
Yes. Yorkville in Toronto has a walkability score of 95 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Yorkville more walkable than the rest of Toronto?
Yorkville is more walkable than Toronto as a whole: it scores 95, against 82 for the 5 km around Toronto's centre. It ranks 4th 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 Yorkville 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 Yorkville it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1 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.