Baby Point

Around the Neighbourhood

Cultural landmarks: the historic stone gates that mark the entrance off Jane; the Baby Point Club, a members’ tennis and lawn-bowling club with a log-cabin clubhouse that has anchored the neighbourhood’s social life since the 1920s; and the site of Teiaiagon, the 17th-century Seneca village that once stood on the bluff above the Humber.

Hot local spots: the Baby Point Gates strip at Jane and Annette has the everyday essentials, with Queen Margherita Pizza at 785 Annette and Mad Mexican among the local favourites, plus the full run of Bloor West Village shops, bakeries and cafés a short walk south.

Parks & green space: Étienne Brûlé Park along the Humber River, the Humber Valley ravine and recreational trail running right past the neighbourhood, and the woods and greenery around Lambton just upstream.

Your Typical Neighbour

Baby Point is established, affluent and family-oriented: professionals and executives in larger homes, a lot of households with kids, and people who tend to put down roots for the long haul. The City of Toronto reports its demographics under the broader Lambton Baby Point profile, where housing is predominantly detached single-family homes and homeownership runs high (60%), with household incomes well above the Toronto median of roughly $84,000. It’s one of the city’s quieter pockets of old money and family money, more leafy than flashy.

Source: City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profile, Lambton Baby Point, 2021 Census

What We Love

The setting. You’re on the Humber, wrapped in ravine and mature trees, with High Park, Bloor West Village and the Junction all within reach, yet the streets stay quiet because there’s almost no through traffic. The houses have real character, oak staircases and trim, generous lots, the kind of homes that don’t get built anymore. And the Baby Point Club gives the place a genuine community centre, which is rarer than it sounds.

What We Don’t Love

Listings are rare and they will test your financial fortitude. Because it’s detached-only, there’s no affordable way in… no condo, no real rental market, very little under seven figures. It’s also quiet to a fault if you want nightlife or storefronts at your door; for that you’re walking down to Bloor West or Annette. And homes back onto a ravine and flood plain, so the usual valley-edge cautions on drainage and grading apply.

Real Estate

The housing is the draw: substantial 1920s and 1930s homes in Tudor, English-manor and arts-and-crafts styles, many with oak staircases, oak trim and oak mantels milled from the trees cleared to build the subdivision. Baby Point Road and Baby Point Crescent are the oldest and most coveted streets. The neighbourhood was laid out by developer Robert Home Smith starting in 1912, and that planned, gated character still shapes it today. Inventory is thin and turnover low, so well-located homes tend to move quickly and competitively. New to the market? Start with our First-Time Buyer guide.

(Current prices and days on market appear in the live statistics block below, updated quarterly.)

Schools

Public, Separate, Private and Montessori are all relatively close by. Nothing so far that the Nanny will need a vehicle!

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Humbercrest Public School
King George Junior Public School
Warren Park Junior Public School
Lambton Park Community School
George Syme Community School
High Park Alternative Junior School
Mountview Alternative School
Swansea Junior and Senior Public School

SENIOR SCHOOLS

Runnymede Collegiate Institute
Humberside Collegiate Institute

MONTESSORI SCHOOLS

Humberside Montessori School
Prince Edward Montessori School

For school rankings and Fraser Institute scores, see our interactive Toronto school map.

Transit

Jane Station on the Bloor-Danforth subway (Line 2) sits at the southern edge of the neighbourhood, which is the big transit advantage here… a quick ride to the core with no streetcar shuffle. Buses run along Jane and Annette, and drivers reach the Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard quickly via South Kingsway.