Ionview
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #125
Former city: Scarborough
Open Ionview on the mapThe map shows every boundary here, from wards and ridings to school boards, with what’s nearby. Tap any address in it for its own card.
About Scarborough
Former City of Scarborough, incorporated as a city in 1983.
What stands out
- Among the highest shares of renters in Scarborough (62% rent)
- Among the likeliest to take transit to work in Scarborough (38% of commuters)
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $800K · renters pay $1,180/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
- Mixed. 54% drive · 38% transit · 4% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 62% rent
- Tree canopy
- 15–30%. 24% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 21% · Semi & row 12% · Low-rise 12% · Towers 55%
- Built
- 1960 or before 40% · 1961–80 42% · 1981–2000 14% · 2001–21 4%
- Ages
- Under 15 17% · 15–24 12% · 25–44 31% · 45–64 25% · 65+ 16%
- Language at home
- English 58% · Tagalog (Filipino) 6% · Tamil 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 12% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 11% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Ionview. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.