Welcome To Deer Park
Deer Park is the pocket around Yonge and St. Clair, midtown, where the subway, the ravine and some of the city’s older money all meet. It suits people who want a downtown-adjacent address without a downtown mailbox: two subway lines a short walk away, the St. Clair West streetcar at the door, and the Vale of Avoca ravine dropping away just east of Yonge. The name goes back to a 19th-century hotel that kept deer on the grounds, and the neighbourhood has been comfortably upper-middle-class since the 1930s.
Day to day it splits in two. There’s the busy Yonge and St. Clair commercial node, glassy office towers, grocery, coffee and a growing run of restaurants, and then the quiet residential streets behind it, Heath, Farnham, Warren, Foxbar, where detached houses sit under mature trees and the traffic disappears. You get both within a five-minute walk, which is the whole appeal.
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Deer Park FAQs
It centres on Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue in midtown Toronto, east of Forest Hill, north of Summerhill and next to Moore Park across the ravine. Rosedale sits just to the south.
As a rough guide: condos and apartments, which make up most of the market here, run from roughly $550K for a one-bedroom to well past $1.5M for larger suites in the newer St. Clair towers; the handful of semis trade in the low-to-mid seven figures; and detached houses on the quiet streets, Heath, Farnham, Warren Road, generally start around $2.5M and climb from there. See the live statistics block below for the current quarter’s exact figures, or browse current Deer Park listings.
If you want to walk to two subway lines, a grocery store and a ravine trail while living on a quiet street, it’s hard to beat. It leans older and more settled than flashier midtown pockets, which is a plus or a minus depending on what you’re after.
The houses and the schools are here, and the ravine and parks help, but this is a condo-heavy, single-adult-heavy area more than a stroller enclave. Families tend to gravitate to the detached streets or over the ravine into Moore Park.
About as easy as midtown gets. St. Clair Station on Line 1 puts you at Bloor in a few minutes and Union in around 15, and the 512 St. Clair streetcar runs crosstown.
On the residential streets it’s manageable, and most houses have a spot. Around Yonge and St. Clair at street level it’s the usual midtown squeeze.
Around the Neighbourhood
Cultural landmarks: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the Victorian-era arboretum-slash-cemetery just north where locals walk and run among heritage trees and famous headstones, and the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, the grand 1914 sanctuary on St. Clair West.
Hot local spots: Mary Be Kitchen for a bright, health-leaning brunch on St. Clair West, Union Social Eatery for burgers and a patio, Cucina Buca for Italian at Yonge and St. Clair, and Paperboy Cards & Gifts on Pleasant Boulevard, a longtime local favourite for cards and small gifts.
Parks & green space: David A. Balfour Park and the Vale of Avoca ravine, freshly rebuilt in a $35M rehabilitation finished in 2022, plus the Rosehill Reservoir grounds and the Kay Gardner Beltline Trail running along the top.
Your Typical Neighbour
Deer Park skews older, well-off and un-kid-ded. Around half of households are people living alone, and it’s a highly educated crowd, with more than two-thirds of adults holding a bachelor’s degree or higher. Median family income sits well above the city’s, and most people rent or own in the condo and apartment towers rather than the houses: better than 80% of homes here are apartments or condos, with a minority in the detached and semi stock on the side streets. It’s a settled, quietly affluent midtown demographic more than a young-family one.
Source: City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profile, Yonge-St.Clair (Neighbourhood #97), 2021 Census
What We Love
The location does most of the work. You’re a short walk from two Line 1 stations, the St. Clair streetcar and a proper grocery run, and then you turn a corner and it’s silent, leafy and residential. The ravine is the other gift: David A. Balfour Park and the Vale of Avoca give you a real forest trail minutes from the subway, and the Beltline links you east and west without touching a road. The Yonge and St. Clair strip has been slowly waking up too, with new restaurants and revamped office space bringing more life to a node that used to empty out after work.
What We Don’t Love
It can feel a little buttoned-up and quiet if you want a scene… the energy here is coffee-and-ravine, not late nights. The St. Clair commercial stretch still has turnover, so a favourite can close and sit empty for a while before something replaces it, Nove Trattoria on Yonge being a recent example. And the newer towers mean you’ll share the intersection with construction and cranes on and off for years.
Real Estate
Deer Park is really two markets. On the residential streets you get handsome detached and semi-detached houses, Edwardian and Georgian revival, on generous midtown lots under old trees, and they command midtown prices to match. Around Yonge and St. Clair it’s condos and apartments, from older co-ops and rentals to newer glass towers, which is where most of the neighbourhood’s residents actually live and where the more attainable entry points are. Inventory on the house side is thin and holds its value well; the condo side gives buyers more choice and a genuine range. 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
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Deer Park Jr & Sr Public School
Oriole Park Junior Public School
Withrow Avenue Junior Public School
Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School
Whitney Junior Public School
Hillcrest Community School
Jackman Avenue Junior Public School
Davisville Junior Public School
Cottingham Junior Public School
SENIOR SCHOOLS
Forest Hill Collegiate Institute
Deer Park Junior and Senior Public School
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
The Linden School
The Bishop Strachan School
The York School
The Mabin School
St. Michael’s College School
For school rankings and Fraser Institute scores, see our interactive Toronto school map.
Transit
This is one of midtown’s best-connected spots. St. Clair Station on Line 1 (Yonge) is right at the corner, with Summerhill and Davisville a stop away, and the 512 St. Clair streetcar runs crosstown to St. Clair West Station on the University line. Drivers reach the Don Valley Parkway via Mount Pleasant and Bayview without much fuss, though the Yonge and St. Clair intersection itself is slow at rush hour.
Property Statistics in Deer Park
Detached Houses - Statistics
Q4 2025
$3,513,000
Average Price
9
New Listings
3
Properties Sold
12
Average Days on Market
96%
% of Asking Price
semi-detached - Statistics
Q4 2025
$3,263,000
Average Price
7
New Listings
5
Properties Sold
8
Average Days on Market
108%
% of Asking Price
townhome - Statistics
Q4 2025
N/A
Average Price
11
New Listings
2
Properties Sold
N/A
Average Days on Market
N/A
% of Asking Price
Condos - Statistics
Q4 2025
$1,207,000
Average Price
53
New Listings
22
Properties Sold
34
Average Days on Market
96%
% of Asking Price
All Properties - Statistics
Q4 2025
$1,841,309
Average Price
86
New Listings
33
Properties Sold
28
Average Days on Market
100%
% of Asking Price
Source: TRREB Statistics
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