170 Wallace Avenue

Getting around Very walkable

• 🚇 Lansdowne Subway6 min walk
• 🚇 Dufferin Subway11 min walk
• 🚆 Exhibition GO3.6 km

Within a 10-minute walk: 12 grocery stores, 74 cafés and restaurants, 17 parks, 8 pharmacies. Nearest grocery: Távora Foods (350 m). Nearest park: Campbell Avenue Park (400 m).

Schools nearby

Elementary

• St. Sebastian Catholic School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 100%, math 69%5 min walk
• Pauline Junior Public School
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 96%, math 65%5 min walk
• St. Luigi Catholic School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 3 reading 42%, math 17%11 min walk
• St. Anthony Catholic School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 79%, math 54%11 min walk

Secondary

• Bloor Collegiate Institute ALPHA Alternative School Secondary10 min walk
• Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 9 math 41%, literacy test 69%15 min walk
• St. Mary Catholic Academy Catholic · Private
  EQAO: Gr 9 math 45%, literacy test 86%16 min walk

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 M6H

Owners / renters

48% / 52%

Median household income

$83,000

Average age

41

Children under 15

12%

Homes

11% detached, 18% high-rise

Commute by transit

30%

Population

43,730

Languages spoken most at home besides English: Portuguese 8.5%, Spanish 2.3%, Yue (Cantonese) 1.8%, Italian 1.4%.

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 Junction-Wallace Emerson (2025): about the Toronto average, down 9% from the year before.

• Assaultabout average
• Break and enter22% above average
• Auto theft52% below average
• Robbery54% below average
• Theft from vehiclesabout average
• Shootings56% below 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 2 active

• 224 WALLACE AVE · 250 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · Under Review · applied 2026
  Standalone Official Plan Amendment application to redesignate the subject site from Core Employment Areas to Mixed Use Areas.
  Application details
• 213 EMERSON AVE · 400 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · OMB Appeal · applied 2022
  Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment to increase the approved height and density onsite to accomodate additional purpose built and affordable rental…
  Application details
• 213 EMERSON AVE · 400 m
  Part Lot Control · Closed · applied 2024
  Part Lot Control Exemption By-law extension application request for 1245 Dupont Street. By-law 235-2020 was enacted by City Council on February 26, 2020 and…
  Application details
• 640 LANSDOWNE AVE · 200 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · Closed · applied 2024
  Lifting of the Hold for Zoning By-law By-law 848-2022 to permit a seven-storey mixed-use building containing 256 long-term care beds, 57 affordable rental…
  Application details
• 22 PAULINE AVE · 500 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · Closed · applied 2024
  Official Plan Amendment for proposed stacked townhouses containing 35 units. The building would have an overall height of 4-storeys (12 metres), with a total…
  Application details
• 22 PAULINE AVE · 500 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · Closed · applied 2023
  Proposed stacked townhouses containing 35 units. The building would have an overall height of 4-storeys (12 metres), with a total residential gross floor area…
  Application details

1 more within 500 m.

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

Commute

To Union Station (downtown Toronto): 5 km. Transit times · Driving times

Noise 1 source nearby

• 🚆 Rail line (GO Transit Newmarket Subdivision)300 m

Distances from the map, not noise measurements. Visit at rush hour to judge for yourself.

What can be built R

Residential (with a site-specific exception).

• ✅ Up to 6 homes on the lot (multiplex): a sixplex ward
• ✅ Garden suite in the backyard
• ✅ Laneway suite, if the lot backs onto a lane

From Toronto’s Zoning By-law 569-2013 map. Lot size, setbacks and trees decide what actually fits; check with a planner before you buy.

Full lot check · Run the numbers

Building permits

No building permits at this address since 2014.

8 permits on this block of the street in the last 2 years, including 2 new homes.

Permits filed with the City of Toronto. A permit doesn’t mean the work passed final inspection.

Trees

70 City street trees within 100 m. That’s more than the Toronto average of 42.

Trees on City boulevards only, not private yards or parks.

Internet High-speed

50/10 Mbps or faster available here by cable, fibre or DSL (the federal high-speed target).

From the federal broadband map. Check exact speeds and providers for the address.

Short-term rentals

Only in your principal residence (where you live). The entire home can be rented up to 180 nights a year; renting up to 3 bedrooms while you live there has no limit. Hosts register with the City and collect the 6% accommodation tax.

City rules