2499 Yonge Street

Getting around Very walkable

• 🚇 Eglinton Subway9 min walk
• 🚇 Mount Pleasant LRT13 min walk
• 🚆 Oriole GO6.6 km

Within a 10-minute walk: 13 grocery stores, 94 cafés and restaurants, 16 parks, 10 pharmacies. Nearest grocery: Carload on Yonge (0 m). Nearest park: St. Clements - Yonge Parkette (150 m).

Schools nearby

Elementary

• John Fisher Junior Public School
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 95%, math 76%2 min walk
• St. Monica Catholic School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 90%, math 76%4 min walk
• Eglinton Junior Public School
  EQAO: Gr 3 reading 76%, math 68%13 min walk
• Allenby Junior Public School
  EQAO: Gr 6 reading 97%, math 75%17 min walk

Secondary

• North Toronto Collegiate Institute
  EQAO: Gr 9 math 80%, literacy test 95%6 min walk
• Northern Secondary School
  EQAO: Gr 9 math 72%, literacy test 91%12 min walk
• Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School Catholic
  EQAO: Gr 9 math 59%, literacy test 89%15 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 M4P

Owners / renters

26% / 74%

Median household income

$74,500

Average age

40

Children under 15

10%

Homes

7% detached, 78% high-rise

Commute by transit

38%

Population

25,057

Languages spoken most at home besides English: Portuguese 3%, Iranian Persian 2.4%, Spanish 2.3%, Korean 1.6%.

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 North Toronto (2025): 28% below the Toronto average, about the same from the year before.

• Assaultabout average
• Break and enterabout average
• Auto theft70% below average
• Robbery32% below average
• Theft from vehicles70% below average
• Shootingsnone reported

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 24 active

• 241 REDPATH AVE · 400 m
  Site Plan · Under Review · applied 2026
  Site Plan Amendment Application in response to the additional 5-storeys approved at the North York Committee of Adjustment on June 12, 2025, approving…
  Application details
• 487 DUPLEX AVE · 250 m
  Official Plan / Zoning By-law Amendment · Under Review · applied 2025
  OPA & Rezoning Application proposes the development of a 40-storey residential building. The building will provide a total of 524 residential units, being a…
  Application details
• 2490-2504 YONGE ST · 50 m
  Plan of Condominium · Draft Plan Approved · applied 2025
  Draft Plan of Condominium to create 161 residential units within a 15-storey mixed-use building. There will be 3 levels of below grade parking.
  Application details
• 14 BROADWAY AVE · 250 m
  Site Plan · Under Review · applied 2025
  Site Plan Control contemplates a 5 storey Catholic Elementary School with 88 pupil place childcare and a 45 space underground parking to replace existing…
  Application details
• 65 BROADWAY AVE · 400 m
  Plan of Condominium · Draft Plan Approved · applied 2025
  Draft Plan of Condominium for a 39-storey mixed-use building, with two towers atop a common 4-storey podium and underground garage. There will be 389…
  Application details
• 2346 YONGE ST · 400 m
  Site Plan · Under Review · applied 2024
  Site Plan Control Application proposing a 56-storey mixed-use building containing 407 residential units, with a combined Gross Floor Area of 36,656…
  Application details

25 more within 500 m.

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

Commute

To Union Station (downtown Toronto): 8 km. Transit times · Driving times

Noise Nothing major nearby

No highway within 500 m, rail line within 300 m, or airport flight path nearby.

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

What can be built CR

Commercial Residential (with a site-specific exception).

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.

16 permits on this block of the street in the last 2 years.

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

Trees

41 City street trees within 100 m. That’s about 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.