2015 in Toronto parking tickets

The corpus records 2,168,493 parking tickets issued in Toronto in 2015, carrying $99,872,770 in set fines. That is 12.7% fewer tickets than the 2,484,983 recorded for 2014. The City publishes complete records only, so the year-to-year change reflects the published data and not every ticket written.

Ticketing peaked at midday, with 168,138 tickets written in the noon hour. The hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. together made up 50.4% of the year. There was also a clear overnight pattern: 84,602 tickets in the 2 a.m. hour and 88,472 in the 3 a.m. hour, which points to overnight permit enforcement. Activity dropped to its lowest at 5 a.m., with 15,968 tickets.

No parking during signed hours was the largest family, at 21.2% of tickets, followed by unpaid meters and pay-and-display at 17.9%, private property at 15.3%, permit parking at 15.1% and no stopping or rush-hour rules at 14.1%. Hydrant, fire-route, accessible-space, sidewalk and bike-lane infractions made up 4.9%. The most common single code was parking in a prohibited place at a signed time (code 5), with 380,239 tickets. Next came parking on private property (code 3) with 324,580 and parking at prohibited times without a permit (code 29) with 321,312.

The most-ticketed segment was on Bayview Avenue at Blythwood Road, with 9,082 tickets. Next was Edward Street between Yonge Street and Bay Street, with 7,423. Rounding out the top five were Dufferin Street near Jane Osler Boulevard, Mill Street between Trinity and Cherry streets, and Danforth Avenue east of Broadview Avenue. Enforcement is not spread evenly across the city, so these totals show where tickets were written, not where people park or break the rules most often.