Westminster-Branson
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #35
Former city: North York
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About North York
Former City of North York, incorporated as a city in 1979.
What stands out
- Among the likeliest to take transit to work in North York (35% of commuters)
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $700K · renters pay $1,520/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 63 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 59% drive · 35% transit · 4% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 60% rent
- Tree canopy
- 30–45%. 32% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 9% · Semi & row 10% · Low-rise 6% · Towers 75%
- Built
- 1960 or before 11% · 1961–80 50% · 1981–2000 33% · 2001–21 6%
- Ages
- Under 15 13% · 15–24 11% · 25–44 27% · 45–64 28% · 65+ 21%
- Language at home
- English 46% · Russian 15% · Tagalog (Filipino) 12%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 9% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 12% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Westminster-Branson. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.