North of the tracks, the area is a mix of small commercial and residential buildings on the western fringe of downtown.

North of Queen Street, the eastern side of Bathurst is the edge of the Alexandria Park cluster of housing projects, while to the west is the Trinity-Bellwoods residential neighbourhood.

This part of the street continues to be a mix of small commercial establishments and residential housing, generally rental apartments.

Bathurst Street loses its Regional Road status at Queensville Sideroad, where it enters the Holland Marsh.

It serves as the boundary between Vaughan and Richmond Hill north of Highway 407, and between King Township and Newmarket and Aurora.

The tollkeeper's cottage, which was built in 1835, still exists, restored to its original appearance and is located at the north-west corner of the intersection.

The jog along Bathurst was eliminated when a diagonal connector was built to the west to join the two sections of the highway as a single roadway.

Bathurst Street finished in the top 10 in Canadian Automobile Association's "Ontario's Worst Roads" poll in every year from 2004 to 2007.

The northern stretch of Bathurst, north of Sheppard Avenue West, has become one of the centres of Toronto's Russian community.

Many Russian Jewish immigrants began to settle in the area's apartment buildings (many are around the Bathurst/Sheppard intersection, and along Bathurst between Finch Avenue West and Steeles Avenue West),[10] starting from early 1970s to get easier access to services provided by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society.

[11] The electoral district of York Centre, which includes Bathurst from Wilson Ave. to Steeles Ave. West, has the largest number of Russian Canadian voters in Canada.

Numerous Russian delicatessens, restaurants, and book and clothing stores have earned the neighborhood the unofficial moniker "Little Moscow".

The 511 Bathurst streetcar route runs from Bloor to Fleet Street, where it turns to connect to Exhibition Place.