Birchcliffe-Cliffside
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #122
Former city: Scarborough
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About Scarborough
Former City of Scarborough, incorporated as a city in 1983.
Names you’ll hear here
- Birch Cliff
What stands out
- Oldest housing in Scarborough (57% built 1960 or before)
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $1M · renters pay $1,200/mo2021 Census figures, not current prices. Rent is what renting households paid, utilities included, counting long-time tenants, subsidized homes and basement suites, so it sits below what a new lease costs. Use them to compare neighbourhoods, not to budget.
- To Union
- 45–60 min. About 54 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 70% drive · 19% transit · 6% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 34% rent
- Tree canopy
- 30–45%. 43% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 51% · Semi & row 5% · Low-rise 29% · Towers 14%
- Built
- 1960 or before 57% · 1961–80 18% · 1981–2000 12% · 2001–21 13%
- Ages
- Under 15 15% · 15–24 11% · 25–44 25% · 45–64 31% · 65+ 18%
- Language at home
- English 85% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 4% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 3% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Birchcliffe-Cliffside. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.