Downtown Yonge East
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #168
Former city: Old Toronto · Area: Downtown
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About Downtown
The central core: Financial District, waterfront and the dense grid south of Bloor.
Names you’ll hear here
- Yonge-Dundas
Landmarks:
- Massey Hall
What stands out
- Among the quickest transit trips to Union in Toronto (about 17 min)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $750K · renters pay $1,760/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
- Under 30 min. About 17 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 27% drive · 27% transit · 43% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 64% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 15%. 8% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Semi & row 1% · Low-rise 3% · Towers 95%
- Built
- 1960 or before 7% · 1961–80 12% · 1981–2000 29% · 2001–21 52%
- Ages
- Under 15 6% · 15–24 15% · 25–44 49% · 45–64 19% · 65+ 11%
- Language at home
- English 74% · Mandarin 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 6% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 9% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Downtown Yonge East. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.