Map Of Almost Every Parking Ticket Issued In Toronto 2011-2020

Map created by School of CitiesThe map above shows the location of almost every parking ticket issued in Toronto, Canada between 2011 and 2020.

In total, 22.8 million parking tickets (7.6x the population of the City proper) were issued for a total of over $1 billion CAD dollars in fines.

Notes on methods and data:

Data on the locations of parking tickets are from the City of Toronto. We joined them to the City’s Centreline data representing streets in order to make this map.

Both were available as open data. The data on parking tickets only indicate addresses, not XY coordinates.

Some of the parking tickets (~5%) could not be linked to streets due to missing address numbers or incorrect spellings. Code for this linking (in Python) as well as visualization on this page (via D3, QGIS, and Inkscape) are on GitHub.

Over the decade the number of tickets declined each year. Going from 2.8 million in 2011 to 2.2 million in 2019. And then dropped to 1.4 million in 2020 due to the pandemic.

However, non-inflation adjusted revenue stayed stable at around $100-$110 million CAD per year, with the exception of 2020 when it dropped to $70 million.