Willowdale West
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #37
Former city: North York
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About North York
Former City of North York, incorporated as a city in 1979.
Names you’ll hear here
- North York Centre
What stands out
- Among the likeliest to walk or bike to work in North York (10% of commuters)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $900K · renters pay $1,800/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 56 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 61% drive · 26% transit · 10% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 40% rent
- Tree canopy
- 30–45%. 35% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 26% · Semi & row 5% · Low-rise 6% · Towers 63%
- Built
- 1960 or before 19% · 1961–80 15% · 1981–2000 19% · 2001–21 47%
- Ages
- Under 15 10% · 15–24 11% · 25–44 34% · 45–64 24% · 65+ 20%
- Language at home
- English 52% · Mandarin 10% · Korean 8%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 8% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 10% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Willowdale West. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.