2016 in Toronto parking tickets

The corpus has 2,254,761 parking tickets for 2016, with set fines adding up to $109,675,985. That is up 4.0% from the 2,168,493 tickets recorded for 2015. The City publishes complete records only, so some tickets are missing from both years. Ticket counts show how much enforcement happened. They do not show how often people parked or broke the rules.

Ticketing peaked in the middle of the day. The busiest hour was noon, with 163,886 tickets, and 9 a.m. had 156,531. There was also a large overnight block: 101,979 tickets were issued in the midnight hour and 96,295 at 3 a.m. Activity was lowest at 5 a.m., with 16,030. Enforcement is not spread evenly across the day, so these hours show when officers were active.

No parking during signed hours was the largest family, with 21.4% of tickets. Private property followed with 16.6%, then unpaid meters and pay-and-display with 16.4% and permit parking with 15.3%. Hydrant, fire-route, accessible-space, sidewalk and bike-lane infractions made up 4.7%. The most common single code was 5, parking on a signed street during prohibited times, with 401,636 tickets. Next were code 3, parking on private property, with 367,638 and code 29, parking during prohibited times without a permit, with 339,145.

Of the tickets matched to a street, Yonge Street had the most, at about 63,974. Bloor Street West had 38,969, Queen Street West had 36,355 and Danforth Avenue had 35,209. The single most-ticketed address was 2075 Bayview Ave, with 6,463 tickets. Enforcement is not spread evenly across the city, so these rankings partly show where patrols were focused.