Roncesvalles
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #86
Former city: Old Toronto · Area: West End
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About West End
Old Toronto west of Bathurst: Parkdale, the Junction, Roncesvalles, Little Italy.
Names you’ll hear here
- Little Tibet
- Roncesvalles
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.3M · renters pay $1,400/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 40 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 47% drive · 25% transit · 25% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 53% rent
- Tree canopy
- 15–30%. 26% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 10% · Semi & row 20% · Low-rise 46% · Towers 24%
- Built
- 1960 or before 67% · 1961–80 18% · 1981–2000 5% · 2001–21 10%
- Ages
- Under 15 15% · 15–24 8% · 25–44 37% · 45–64 28% · 65+ 13%
- Language at home
- English 84% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 3% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 3% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Roncesvalles. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.