Clairlea-Birchmount
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #120
Former city: Scarborough
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About Scarborough
Former City of Scarborough, incorporated as a city in 1983.
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $900K · renters pay $1,270/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 53 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 60% drive · 33% transit · 4% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 36% rent
- Tree canopy
- 15–30%. 19% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 34% · Semi & row 25% · Low-rise 21% · Towers 21%
- Built
- 1960 or before 39% · 1961–80 22% · 1981–2000 10% · 2001–21 29%
- Ages
- Under 15 17% · 15–24 12% · 25–44 29% · 45–64 28% · 65+ 14%
- Language at home
- English 61% · Bengali 6%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 11% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 8% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Clairlea-Birchmount. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.