University
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #79
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
- Harbord Village
Landmarks:
- Lee's Palace
- Royal Ontario Museum
What stands out
- Highest home values in Downtown (median $1.4M)
- Most detached houses in Downtown (5% of homes)
- Oldest housing in Downtown (59% built 1960 or before)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.4M · renters pay $1,590/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 24 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 35% drive · 27% transit · 34% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 61% rent
- Tree canopy
- 15–30%. 17% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 5% · Semi & row 18% · Low-rise 46% · Towers 32%
- Built
- 1960 or before 59% · 1961–80 21% · 1981–2000 5% · 2001–21 14%
- Ages
- Under 15 8% · 15–24 13% · 25–44 42% · 45–64 21% · 65+ 16%
- Language at home
- English 81% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 3% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 5% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, University. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.