Rodent Control in Downtown Toronto

Downtown Toronto is the densest part of the city, running from the waterfront up through the Financial District, St. Lawrence Market, and Kensington Market. The street grid is tight and the mix of commercial and residential is constant.

Restaurant rows, laneway waste storage, and apartments stacked above commercial units define how rodent pressure behaves across the core.

Restaurant rows and the waste stored in rear laneways feed rats through every season. The steady food supply from bins, grease traps and rear-lane loading areas keeps populations active year-round, and exterior baiting with waste-area exclusion carries most of the work.

Apartments stacked above restaurants share ceiling voids with the kitchens below. Rodents move between the commercial space and the residential unit through that shared structure, and treating both sides of the floor separation is what stops the crossover.