The number of street trees per 100 residents was compared with a wide range of neighbourhood characteristics across Toronto. The figure highlights 10 correlations from the larger analysis.
These are neighbourhood-level associations and do not imply causation or necessarily describe relationships at the individual level.
**Public data sources:** City of Toronto Open Data, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership.
So in other words Median Houshold Income and stuff that correlate with that one.
Yes. Trees increase property values, encourage people to work harder and live longer. Trees also reduce anger and murder and improve mental health.
Mental health erectile dysfunction visits?
is it so much to ask for neighborhoods in North America that have lots of trees and walkability?
It seems most of these are likely more related to population density than tree coverage. It would be useful to compare these values to correlations between the same characteristics and inverse of density.
This is flaming garbage as social science, and it pains me to say that because I love seeing my city featured. Still, useless.
Older, richer people tend to live in nicer neighbourhoods. Nicer neighbourhoods typically have more trees.
Tune back in at 11, where we will dive deep into the world of oceans and uncover the dark truth that bigger bodies of water usually contain more fish.
Poor people live in shirty high density area? Surprising.
You know where there are more trees? In residential areas, especially those of lower density and single family homes.
Too bad, many people do not want us to have that anymore.
You gotta live piled up in a high rise that you rent with no land owned. Big corpos like that.
This is fascinating, bc where I live in Carlsbad, CA, no new home can be sold without a tree in the front yard.
Good thing here in Portland people trying to reallocate funds set aside for tree planting and using it to hire more cops
So richer neighborhoods have more trees?
Lol Canadian citizenship is associated with more trees!
Might want to rename that one “domestic citizenship” or add to title “…in Toronto”
I live in an affluent area of my city but had a couple of hours to burn in a non affluent area between meetings.
No problems. I’ll just find a park or something to park in and read.
Nope.
I couldn’t find any. Children in that part of the city just play in the streets I guess.
I felt shitty for not realizing the dichotomy between what I expected and the reality.
Sure it has all those great things, but probably doesn’t have any gang violence, graffiti, or taco trucks.
Most of this is no surprise (although it’s nice to see hard data on some of these things, e.g. Mental Health Emerge visits) but is this also saying that a neighbourhood with fewer trees has a BETTER walk score? That’s really…interesting. I wonder if it’s because the most walkable areas are also the most central/inner city, so they are inherently more built up than the suburbs…would love to hear other people’s takes
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The number of street trees per 100 residents was compared with a wide range of neighbourhood characteristics across Toronto. The figure highlights 10 correlations from the larger analysis.
These are neighbourhood-level associations and do not imply causation or necessarily describe relationships at the individual level.
**Public data sources:** City of Toronto Open Data, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership.
**Preprocessed Dataset:** [https://github.com/epheva/toronto-neighbourhood-correlations](https://github.com/epheva/toronto-neighbourhood-correlations)
**Tools:** Python, Pandas, Matplotlib.
So in other words Median Houshold Income and stuff that correlate with that one.
Yes. Trees increase property values, encourage people to work harder and live longer. Trees also reduce anger and murder and improve mental health.
Mental health erectile dysfunction visits?
is it so much to ask for neighborhoods in North America that have lots of trees and walkability?
It seems most of these are likely more related to population density than tree coverage. It would be useful to compare these values to correlations between the same characteristics and inverse of density.
This is flaming garbage as social science, and it pains me to say that because I love seeing my city featured. Still, useless.
Older, richer people tend to live in nicer neighbourhoods. Nicer neighbourhoods typically have more trees.
Tune back in at 11, where we will dive deep into the world of oceans and uncover the dark truth that bigger bodies of water usually contain more fish.
Poor people live in shirty high density area? Surprising.
You know where there are more trees? In residential areas, especially those of lower density and single family homes.
Too bad, many people do not want us to have that anymore.
You gotta live piled up in a high rise that you rent with no land owned. Big corpos like that.
This is fascinating, bc where I live in Carlsbad, CA, no new home can be sold without a tree in the front yard.
Good thing here in Portland people trying to reallocate funds set aside for tree planting and using it to hire more cops
So richer neighborhoods have more trees?
Lol Canadian citizenship is associated with more trees!
Might want to rename that one “domestic citizenship” or add to title “…in Toronto”
I live in an affluent area of my city but had a couple of hours to burn in a non affluent area between meetings.
No problems. I’ll just find a park or something to park in and read.
Nope.
I couldn’t find any. Children in that part of the city just play in the streets I guess.
I felt shitty for not realizing the dichotomy between what I expected and the reality.
Sure it has all those great things, but probably doesn’t have any gang violence, graffiti, or taco trucks.
Most of this is no surprise (although it’s nice to see hard data on some of these things, e.g. Mental Health Emerge visits) but is this also saying that a neighbourhood with fewer trees has a BETTER walk score? That’s really…interesting. I wonder if it’s because the most walkable areas are also the most central/inner city, so they are inherently more built up than the suburbs…would love to hear other people’s takes
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