3 Thornton Ave
Toronto, Ontario M6E
A 3-storey, 17-unit private rental building built in 1960.
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Issues & maintenance
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City bylaw and health cases
2 bylaw investigations at this address since Jun 2025; 1 notice or order to comply.
A case starts with a complaint or an officer’s visit, so it is not a finding against the building. In a condo, a complaint about one unit is filed under the building’s address.
- Repairs and upkeep 2
- Jun 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Jun 2025· Closed
- Throughout Building – Stairwell: The required guard has members, attachments or openings that will facilitate climbing.Namely, throughout the building guards facilitate climbing. (closed)
- Throughout Building – Stairwell: Guard is less than 1,070 millimetres high.Namely, throughout the building guards do not meet the required height measurement. (closed)
- Throughout Building – Stairwell: Required guard does not prevent the passage of a spherical object having a diameter of 100 millimetres.Namely, throughout the building stairwell guards. (closed)
Case 25 179474 PRS 00 IV
- Jun 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 25 179469 PRS 00 IR
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Bylaw investigation activity (open cases, and those closed in the last two years) and residential health hazards.
From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
47/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit66
18.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Fairbank (5 Eglinton Line), 490 m.
- Parks & trees23
8.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 470 m. 336 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling33
Within 1 km: 0 km of protected lanes, 2.75 km of bike lanes and trails, 0 km of shared routes. 3 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby79
5 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Fairbank Memorial Community School, 150 m), plus 2 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities26
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 5 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety40
3 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 1 fatal. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Caledonia-Fairbank
- AssaultAbout typical
Lower than 65 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (84% of the city median).
- Break and enterLower than most
Lower than 87 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (60% of the city median).
- RobberyAbout typical
Lower than 75 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (62% of the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Higher than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.2× the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesLower than most
Lower than 80 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (77% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Among the lowest
Lower than 99 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (35% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Higher than 56 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.3× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Higher than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.3× the city median).
- HomicideAbout typical
Higher than 74 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.4× the city median).
How often police recorded each crime for every resident of the whole neighbourhood, averaged over 2023–2025. Places many people visit but few live in, like downtown, rank high for that reason alone, so this is not part of the living score.
Air
Allen Road, 1.6 km away
1.2 tonnes a year from 3 facilities, mostly Ryding Auto Body
Bands: traffic is high within 150 m of an expressway and moderate within 500 m; industrial is moderate under a tonne a year and high above. The industrial bands are ours, for orientation only: ChemTRAC totals mix substances of very different toxicity. Releases are self-reported to the City’s ChemTRAC program. For today’s readings see Air Quality Ontario.
Supervised consumption services
- Nearest site
- Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Service, 5.8 km
- Sites within 1 km
- 0
Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.
Zoning
Residential Multiple Dwelling
- Category
- Low-rise residential
- Zone label
RM (f12.0; u4; d0.8) (x252)- Height limit
- 11 m
Zoning By-law 569-2013, from City of Toronto open data. Exceptions (“x” numbers) and site-specific amendments can change what is allowed; check the City’s zoning map before relying on it.
Nearby change
- Open planning applications within 300 m
- 0
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
Rezonings, site plans and subdivisions submitted in the last five years and still open.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Data as of 2026-10-03. Transit from TTC weekday schedules; parks, trees, cycling, schools, libraries, community centres, child care, collisions, crime, expressways, ChemTRAC releases, planning applications and short-term rental registrations from open.toronto.ca; Bike Share stations from Bike Share Toronto; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada.
From CMHC and the City of Toronto
Rent
Average rents nearby
Monthly rent in purpose-built rental apartments, October 2025.
| Bedrooms | Caledonia-Fairbank | York zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,233* | $1,381 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,584 | $1,706 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $1,927 | $2,067 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $2,547 | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,753 | $1,864 | $1,917 |
Averages over every unit, including long tenancies under rent control, so they run below what a new lease costs today. Condominium units rented out by their owners are not included. “-” means too few units were surveyed to publish; * marks an estimate CMHC rates poor. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Rent reductions after property-tax cuts
When a rental property’s tax falls by more than 2.49%, Ontario law cuts its rents by a matching share, and the City writes to the tenants.
The City’s lists for 2014–2025 have no rent-reduction notices for this address.
Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.
Building facts
From the City of Toronto’s RentSafeTO registry, as reported by the landlord (registered 2017). Not resident reviews.
89 / 100City inspection score, June 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 3
- Units
- 17
- Built
- 1960
- Elevators
- 0
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Basement, 7AM - 10PM
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Parking
- Surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- No
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 9
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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