Runnymede-Bloor West Village
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #89
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
- Bloor West Village
What stands out
- Oldest housing in Toronto (84% built 1960 or before)
- Highest share of homeowners in the West End (22% rent)
- Most detached houses in the West End (52% of homes)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.4M · renters pay $1,600/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 46 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 56% drive · 23% transit · 14% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 22% rent
- Tree canopy
- 30–45%. 32% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 52% · Semi & row 22% · Low-rise 26%
- Built
- 1960 or before 84% · 1961–80 9% · 1981–2000 3% · 2001–21 4%
- Ages
- Under 15 20% · 15–24 10% · 25–44 26% · 45–64 30% · 65+ 14%
- Language at home
- English 91% · No other language above 5%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 2% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 2% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Runnymede-Bloor West Village. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.