Highland Creek
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #134
Former city: Scarborough
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About Scarborough
Former City of Scarborough, incorporated as a city in 1983.
What stands out
- Among the most detached houses in Toronto (84% of homes)
- Among the highest shares of homeowners in Scarborough (14% rent)
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $1M · renters pay $1,250/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 79 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 79% drive · 16% transit · 2% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 14% rent
- Tree canopy
- 30–45%. 38% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 84% · Semi & row 1% · Low-rise 16%
- Built
- 1960 or before 9% · 1961–80 14% · 1981–2000 62% · 2001–21 15%
- Ages
- Under 15 12% · 15–24 15% · 25–44 24% · 45–64 27% · 65+ 23%
- Language at home
- English 61% · Tamil 8%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 10% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 4% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Highland Creek. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.