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Parking Tickets

When do Torontonians usually get tickets?

11am

the peak ticket hour city-wide; Sunday is the quietest day

0h4h8h12h16h20hpeak: 11hTickets by hour of day, 2023-2025.
MonTueWedThuFriSatSunTickets by day of week, 2023-2025.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTickets by month, 2023-2025.

Tickets peak at 11am and in May; Sunday is the quietest day at 541,788 tickets against roughly 900,000 on a weekday.

The shape is enforcement-shaped: tickets cluster in the hours officers work the curb. Read it as enforcement intensity, not driver behavior.

How we know

City of Toronto Parking Tickets, 2023-2025: 6,454,695 tickets, 5,606,483 geocoded (86.9%).

Cite this

Open Nshipyard (2026). "When do Torontonians usually get tickets?" Showcase. Retrieved from https://canada.nshipyard.com/showcase#when-tickets-happen.

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