The Essex

Getting around Very walkable

• 🚇 Kipling Subway4 min walk
• 🚇 Islington Subway19 min walk
• 🚆 Kipling GO7 min walk

Within a 10-minute walk: 4 grocery stores, 24 cafés and restaurants, 6 parks, 6 pharmacies. Nearest grocery: Farm Boy (100 m). Nearest park: Six Points Park (100 m).

Schools nearby

Elementary

• Our Lady of Peace Catholic School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 84%, math 60%13 min walk
• Wedgewood Junior School
  EQAO: Gr 3 reading 80%, math 76%15 min walk
• Islington Junior Middle School
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 84%, math 41%18 min walk
• Filipok Russian Junior School1.3 km

Secondary

• Etobicoke Year Round Alternative Centre1.3 km
• Bloorlea Middle School1.5 km
• Etobicoke Collegiate Institute
  EQAO: Gr 9 math 73%, literacy test 90%1.6 km

EQAO: share of students meeting the provincial standard (2024–25). Ontario average: Gr 6 reading 86%, math 51%; Gr 9 math 55%; literacy test 83%.

Closest schools, not school zones. Check which school serves this address with the school board before relying on it.

Who lives here postal area M9B

Owners / renters

74% / 26%

Median household income

$108,000

Average age

42

Children under 15

16%

Homes

53% detached, 37% high-rise

Commute by transit

17%

Population

33,236

Languages spoken most at home besides English: Ukrainian 2.1%, Serbian 1.7%, Spanish 1.6%, Korean 1.5%.

Flood and conservation No mapped hazard

Not inside a mapped flood plain or regulated area.

Screening maps only. Ask the conservation authority for a property inquiry before relying on this.

Safety

Major crime per resident in Etobicoke City Centre (2025): 55% above the Toronto average, down 9% from the year before.

• Assaultabout average
• Break and enterabout average
• Auto theft167% above average
• Robbery139% above average
• Theft from vehicles32% above average
• Shootings98% above average

Crime Severity Index for Toronto police: 60 vs 57 for Ontario (2025).

Police-reported figures for the whole neighbourhood, not this street. Rates use the area’s resident population.

Development nearby 14 active

• 5207 DUNDAS ST W · 300 m
  Site Plan · Under Review · applied 2026
  Site Plan Administrative application in relation to file #22 212809 WET 03 SA.
• 970 KIPLING AVE · 150 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · Under Review · applied 2026
  An application to amend the Zoning By-law to Lift the "(H)" Holding Symbol, applied by Zoning By-law 492-2026.
  Application details
• 970 KIPLING AVE · 150 m
  Site Plan · Under Review · applied 2026
  Proposed 43-storey tower and a 28-storey tower. The Subject Site will include 839 purpose-built rental apartments comprised of 198 affordable units and 641…
  Application details
• 10 BEAMISH DR · 150 m
  Site Plan · NOAC Issued · applied 2025
  Proposal to develop a 44-storey mixed use building with 530 dwelling units and 240 square metres of non-residential GFA at grade.
  Application details
• 5251 DUNDAS ST W · 150 m
  Plan of Condominium · Draft Plan Approved · applied 2025
  Draft Plan of Condominium application 552 units.
  Application details
• 5280 DUNDAS ST W · 250 m
  Site Plan · Under Review · applied 2025
  Proposed demolition of the existing building on the subject site and its redevelopment with a 49-storey residential building, inclusive of a 4-storey podium.…
  Application details

20 more within 500 m.

Rezoning, site plan, subdivision and condominium applications filed with the city.