L'Amoreaux West
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #147
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 $800K · renters pay $1,260/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 74 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 72% drive · 21% transit · 3% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 46% rent
- Tree canopy
- 15–30%. 24% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 24% · Semi & row 19% · Low-rise 6% · Towers 51%
- Built
- 1960 or before 7% · 1961–80 68% · 1981–2000 17% · 2001–21 8%
- Ages
- Under 15 13% · 15–24 11% · 25–44 23% · 45–64 28% · 65+ 25%
- Language at home
- English 48% · Mandarin 12% · Cantonese 8%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 10% 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, L'Amoreaux West. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.