2013 in Toronto parking tickets

The corpus holds 2,613,156 parking tickets for 2013, with set fines adding up to $106,554,180. That is 4.8% fewer tickets than the 2,746,154 recorded for 2012. The City publishes complete records only, so the year-to-year comparison covers only those records and not every ticket written.

Ticketing built through the morning and peaked at midday. The noon hour had the most tickets of any hour, at 211,014, followed by 11 a.m. with 196,623. There was a second, smaller rise in the evening, with 129,630 tickets in the 8 p.m. hour. Overnight enforcement was also substantial: 118,289 tickets were issued in the midnight hour, and the lowest point came at 5 a.m. with 22,844.

No-parking tickets during signed hours were the largest family, at 25.4% of the year's tickets, followed by unpaid meter and pay-and-display tickets at 21.9% and permit parking at 15.8%. Hydrant, fire-route, accessible-space, sidewalk and bike-lane infractions made up 4.7%. The single most common code was 5, parking on a highway at prohibited times or days, with 544,940 tickets (20.9%). Next came code 29, parking at a prohibited time without a permit (406,521), and code 210, failing to display a pay-and-display receipt (339,751).

Among streets matched to the City's centreline, Yonge Street had the most tickets, about 79,891, followed by Bloor Street West at about 68,038 and Danforth Avenue at about 46,884. The single address with the most tickets was 2075 Bayview Avenue, with 8,269, followed by 20 Edward Street with 6,612. Enforcement is not spread evenly across the city, so these rankings show where tickets were written, not where parking rules were broken most often.