Downsview
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #155
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
- Downsview
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $900K · renters pay $1,300/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 54 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 66% drive · 29% transit · 4% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 47% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 15%. 8% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 34% · Semi & row 10% · Low-rise 44% · Towers 12%
- Built
- 1960 or before 29% · 1961–80 26% · 1981–2000 14% · 2001–21 30%
- Ages
- Under 15 14% · 15–24 12% · 25–44 32% · 45–64 27% · 65+ 15%
- Language at home
- English 60% · Tagalog (Filipino) 7% · Italian 5%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, Downsview. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.