Map(s) of the Week: University admission: U of T

BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR

Map: St. George campus admissions

Map: Scarborough campus admissions

Map: Mississauga campus admissions

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This week, we wind up the series on neighbourhood patterns in university admission by looking at the University of Toronto.

First, the St. George campus. I'm not sure what I was expecting from this map, but it wasn't this very strong cluster covering the area from Willowdale west to the 404. Rates are also high on the east Danforth and in Don Mills, in the area of the campus itself, and in two west-end postal codes along Bloor St. There is a rough tendency for darker areas to cluster along subway lines.

The Scarborough campus shows a clearer regional pattern, in this case in the area of the actual campus, which draws first from the east-central areas of Scarborough, then from western Scarborough and Markham.

The Mississauga campus draws sharply from its immediate area in west-central Mississauga.

Records were obtained under access-to-information laws.

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Map of the Week will return in the first week of August.

Maps elsewhere: Ontario incarceration rates

Reporter Jim Rankin has the first part of a series on neighbourhood incarceration rates in today's paper. You may remember a similar series in 2007 - the major update this year is data including the full six-digit postal codes of jail inmates, which allows for very detailed mapping.

Rankin was at first denied this information, but eventually the Information and Privacy Commissioner office ruled in his favour on appeal (the decision can be read here)

In any case, two maps go with today's story:

a Flash-based interactive map of incarceration rates by postal code covering the whole province and

an incarceration map of Toronto based on six-digit postal codes.

It bears more than a passing resemblance to our map of male homicide victims from a few weeks ago.

750,153

This blog's lifetime page views broke the 750,000 mark just now. This measures hits on the blog itself - hits on the XML files that house most of our maps are separate, and would add to that total.

The best, as they say, is yet to come.

Map(s) of the Week: University admission: York

CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR

Map: University admissions, York's Keele campus

Map: University admissions, Glendon College

Our series on neighbourhood patterns in university admission continues this week with York.

First, the Keele campus. The first thing I notice here is the overwhelming proportion of students from Vaughan, with secondary pockets in Markham and northwest Toronto. Rates are very low in the Yonge St. corridor and the inverted T shape of the former city of Toronto generally.

Glendon College's map shows neighbourhood patterns very different from York's much larger main campus on Keele. M4P in North Toronto heads the list, followed by M4G (Leaside) and M2H (Hillcrest Village).

Records were obtained under access-to-information laws.

Map of the Week: University admission: Ryerson

TORY ZIMMERMAN/TORONTO STAR

Map: University admissions: Ryerson

This map begins a three-week series on admission to (update: three of the city's four universities)*, looking at registrations from last September. We will go on to look at York and U of T by campuses.

The first thing I notice is that rates are consistently higher in Vaughan and Markham than in the city itself. In the 416 area code, Ryerson attendance rates are low in the city's northwest generally, and also in the neighbourhoods along Yonge St. stretching north from Bloor to the 401.

* A reader points out that OCAD is a university, something I wasn't aware of.