Junction-Wallace Emerson
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #171
Former city: Old Toronto · Area: West End
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About West End
Old Toronto west of Bathurst: Parkdale, the Junction, Roncesvalles, Little Italy.
Names you’ll hear here
- Junction Triangle
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $1M · renters pay $1,480/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
- 30–45 min. About 36 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 50% drive · 33% transit · 14% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 50% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 15%. 8% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 7% · Semi & row 23% · Low-rise 43% · Towers 27%
- Built
- 1960 or before 39% · 1961–80 16% · 1981–2000 16% · 2001–21 29%
- Ages
- Under 15 13% · 15–24 8% · 25–44 42% · 45–64 24% · 65+ 13%
- Language at home
- English 73% · Portuguese 8%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 5% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 4% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Junction-Wallace Emerson. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.