Centennial Scarborough
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #133
Former city: Scarborough
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About Scarborough
Former City of Scarborough, incorporated as a city in 1983.
What stands out
- Highest share of homeowners in Toronto (8% rent)
- Among the most detached houses in Toronto (80% of homes)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1M · renters pay $1,500/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
- Over an hour. About 74 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 80% drive · 15% transit · 1% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 8% rent
- Tree canopy
- 45% or more. 48% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 80% · Semi & row 14% · Low-rise 5%
- Built
- 1960 or before 7% · 1961–80 42% · 1981–2000 34% · 2001–21 17%
- Ages
- Under 15 16% · 15–24 13% · 25–44 22% · 45–64 29% · 65+ 20%
- Language at home
- English 81% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 4% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 2% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Centennial Scarborough. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.