2012 in Toronto parking tickets

The corpus has 2,746,154 parking tickets for 2012, with set fines adding up to $111,485,565. That is 2.1% below 2011's 2,805,492 tickets. The City publishes complete records only, so tickets with incomplete records are missing from both years. The year-to-year change reflects enforcement activity as recorded, not how often people parked or broke the rules.

Ticketing peaked around midday: 218,454 tickets were written in the noon hour, the busiest hour of the day. Tickets with a valid time fell between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. in 52.7% of cases. A second, smaller group of tickets came after midnight. The hours from midnight to 5 a.m. made up 17.7%, mostly from overnight parking rules. Enforcement is not spread evenly across the day, so this profile shows where patrols put their effort.

No-parking tickets during signed hours were the largest family, at 25.4% of the year. Unpaid meter or pay-and-display tickets made up 21.6%, permit parking 15.9%, private property 12.5% and no stopping or rush hour 12.2%. Hydrant, fire-route, accessible-space, sidewalk and bike-lane infractions made up 4.8%. The most common single code was 5, parking on a highway at a prohibited time or day, with 569,772 tickets. Next came code 29, parking at a prohibited time without a permit (428,476), and code 210, failing to display a pay-and-display receipt (341,828).

Among public-street tickets matched to a street, Yonge Street had the most, with 73,921, followed by Bloor Street West (69,124), Queen Street West (47,372) and Danforth Avenue (47,065). Corner tickets are split evenly between the two streets. Looking at single addresses, 1750 Finch Avenue East had the most tickets of any location in 2012, with 7,669. That count includes private-property tickets.