2019 in Toronto parking tickets

The corpus holds 2,213,939 parking tickets for 2019, with set fines adding up to $108,424,170, or an average of $48.97 per ticket. That is 8.3% more tickets than the 2,044,288 recorded for 2018. Keep in mind that the City publishes complete records only, so year-to-year totals show recorded enforcement activity, not how often people parked or broke the rules.

Ticketing was heaviest from late morning to early afternoon. The single busiest hour was 11 a.m. with 159,139 tickets, and the hours from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. together made up 32.7% of tickets that had a valid time. Overnight enforcement was also large: 20.4% of timed tickets were written between midnight and 4:59 a.m., when overnight permit and private-property rules apply. The quietest hour was 5 a.m., with 20,548 tickets. Only 1,959 tickets had no usable time.

By family, private property led with 477,746 tickets (21.6%). Next came signed no-parking hours (18.5%), unpaid meters and pay-and-display (14.5%), and permit parking and no-stopping/rush-hour rules at 13.0% each. Hydrant, fire-route, accessible-space, sidewalk and bike-lane infractions made up 4.1%. The top single code was code 3, parking on private property, with 456,389 tickets. It was followed by code 5, parking on a signed highway during prohibited times (334,575), and code 207, machine fee not paid (286,578).

On public streets, the most-ticketed block was Yorkville Avenue between Bellair Street and Hazelton Avenue, with 6,536 tickets. Next were Queen Street West between Peter Street and Spadina Avenue (6,259) and Edward Street between Yonge Street and Bay Street (6,107). Enforcement is not spread evenly across the city, so these rankings show where tickets were written, not where parking breaks the rules most often.