It is centered along Davenport Road, south of St. Clair Avenue West and surrounded on the other three sides by railway lines.

[1] Metrolinx is working to eliminate this crossing to improve service and safety with a flyover to carry GO Train traffic.

The first European settlement in the area was the village of Carlton, at the intersection of St. Clair Avenue and today's Old Weston Road.

Carlton was established in the late 1840s around the carriage and wagon-making shop of William Bull and appears in the 1851 Browne's Map of the Township of York.

A new Carlton & Weston Road railway station was built in 1885 on the east side of the CNR tracks.

The ten most common language spoken at home, after English, are: Three public school boards operate within Carleton Village, the public secular Toronto District School Board (TDSB), and Conseil scolaire Viamonde (CSV), and the public separate Toronto Catholic District School Board.

They include: Previously, the TCDSB operated Brother Edmund Rice Catholic Secondary School from 1977 to 2001.

The architecture of the 1913 building will be preserved in the new plan for the station, with a contemporary wing replacing the addition from the 1960s.