Yonge-Eglinton
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #100
Former city: Old Toronto · Area: Uptown
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About Uptown
Around and north of Yonge & Eglinton up to the 401.
Names you’ll hear here
- Yonge & Eglinton
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.8M · renters pay $1,640/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
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 48% drive · 31% transit · 13% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 63% rent
- Tree canopy
- 30–45%. 31% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 23% · Semi & row 8% · Low-rise 29% · Towers 40%
- Built
- 1960 or before 47% · 1961–80 22% · 1981–2000 10% · 2001–21 20%
- Ages
- Under 15 14% · 15–24 10% · 25–44 36% · 45–64 25% · 65+ 16%
- Language at home
- English 83% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 4% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 7% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Yonge-Eglinton. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.