List of neighbourhoods in Toronto


The strength and vitality of the many neighbourhoods that make up Toronto, Ontario, Canada has earned the city its unofficial nickname of "the city of neighbourhoods." There are 140 neighbourhoods officially recognized by the City of Toronto and upwards of 240 official and unofficial neighbourhoods within the city's boundaries. Before 1998, Toronto was a much smaller municipality and formed part of Metropolitan Toronto. When the city amalgamated that year, Toronto grew to encompass the former municipalities of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough. Each of these former municipalities still maintains, to a certain degree, its own distinct identity, and the names of these municipalities are still used by their residents, sometimes for disambiguation purposes as amalgamation resulted in duplicated street names. The area known as Toronto before the amalgamation is sometimes called the "old" City of Toronto, the Central District or simply "Downtown".
The "former" City of Toronto is, by far, the most populous and densest part of the city. It is also the business and administrative centre of the city. The uniquely Torontonian bay-and-gable housing style is common throughout the former city.
The "inner ring" suburbs of York and East York are older, predominantly middle-income areas, and ethnically diverse. Much of the housing stock in these areas consists of pre-World War II single-family houses and post-war high-rises. Many of the neighbourhoods in these areas were built up as streetcar suburbs and contain many dense and mixed-use streets, some of which are one-way. They share many characteristics with sections of the "old" city, outside the downtown core.
The "outer ring" suburbs of Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York are much more suburban in nature. The following is a list of the more notable neighbourhoods, divided by the neighbourhoods' location based on the former municipalities, the names of which are still known and commonly used by Torontonians.
Toronto has many groups and associations to deal with neighbourhood issues, and larger umbrella organizations organize events to deal with broader issues.

Neighbourhoods by district

[Old Toronto]

Old Toronto refers to the City of Toronto and its boundaries from 1967 to 1997. It is sometimes referred to as the "South" or "Central" district, and includes the "downtown core". Some of these names such as "The Fashion District" are used as marketing for the areas or by BIAs; this area is actually called "King-Spadina" by locals. Another example is the "Old Town of York", also known as "King and Parliament". Some people in the area also consider it to be a suburb of the main city of Toronto, as many choose to move there in pursuit of a more relaxed and "backwoods" vibe.
Many were recreated or named to reconnect the areas with their past history, early beginnings, or even recent use and prominence. Some historical city 'wards' used in the 19th century are no longer used: St. David's, St. John's, St. Paul's, St. George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's wards. There was a ward named for the patron saint of each of the three British nationalities: English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish., and still survive as subway stops, though St. George station is not named after the ward, but after St. George Street instead, itself named after Quetton St. George, a local resident. St. Lawrence's Ward remains, known today as "St. Lawrence". St. Paul's remains as the name of an electoral district for each of the three levels of government, although the electoral district has very little to no overlap with the historic St. Paul's Ward and beginning in the 2015 Canadian federal election, the electoral district was renamed Toronto—St. Paul's. This meant that the St. Paul's electoral district is a misnomer for much of the history of the electoral district.
For the purposes of geographic distinction, the neighbourhoods of Old Toronto are broken down into four subsections:

Downtown Core (Central)">Downtown Toronto">Downtown Core (Central)

East End">East Toronto">East End

North End

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West End

houses in Little Italy

[East York]

An autonomous urban borough until 1997, East York is located north of Danforth Avenue between the Don River and Victoria Park Avenue. East York was an exclave of York from 1922 to 1924. East York developed contemporaneously with the West End of old Toronto, and it is similar in form and character. In 1967, East York was expanded to include the Town of Leaside. Since the 1998 amalgamation, it is administered together with old Toronto, and separate from Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke-York, by the "Toronto and East York Neighbourhood Council".
East York itself is commonly divided into two zones with mainly Edwardian urban neighbourhoods situated south of Taylor-Massey Creek and referred to as Old East York.
Old East York
Suburban East York

[Etobicoke]

Etobicoke is on the west side of the Humber River. Before the 1967 amalgamation, Long Branch, New Toronto, and Mimico were villages independent of Etobicoke. It was a separate city until the 1998 amalgamation. Since then, Etobicoke is often administered with York as a single community council within the amalgamated city of Toronto.
Etobicoke is often divided into three zones: north, central, and south, roughly approximate to that of the electoral districts of all three levels of government.

[North York]

North York is located north of York, Old Toronto, and East York. It was a separate city until the 1998 amalgamation. North York is sometimes divided to two sections by Yonge Street: an east section and a west section.
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Scarborough">Scarborough, Toronto">Scarborough

Scarborough is on the east side of Victoria Park Avenue. It was a separate city until the 1998 amalgamation. West Rouge was transferred from Pickering to Scarborough in 1974 as part of the establishment of Durham Region. It was also the largest former municipality by area.

York">York, Toronto">York

York is situated between Old Toronto and North York, west of Bathurst Street. Weston was independent of York until 1967. York was a separate city until the 1998 amalgamation. Since then, York is often administered with Etobicoke as a single community council within the amalgamated city of Toronto.
York is often divided to two sections: a western section and an eastern section; often, GO Transit's Barrie rail line divides the former city in two sections.

History

Multiple listing service districts and neighbourhoods

After the update of Toronto Multiple listing service on July 5, 2011, the Toronto Real Estate Board introduced a new search feature for the Toronto MLS, used by real estate agents operating in the region. MLS searches can be refined at three levels and MLS users can search houses by area, then by municipality, and then by neighbourhood or community. As with the other MLS services for other jurisdictions, it used Microsoft's Bing Maps for its web mapping features until 2018, when it switched to Google Maps. These feature changes were the first change of this magnitude in about 50 years of Toronto MLS history.
The change was designed to eliminate the obsolete coding systems whereby Greater Toronto was divided into 86 artificial districts denominated by alphanumeric codes. Due to the growing population in the city and the increasing difficulty of browsing the code-based system, the TREB made a radical change, which is intended to simplify the use of MLS for real estate agents and home buyers.
Because Toronto is a populous municipality of its own, the core city area will continue to be split into coded districts, although each of the districts will in turn contain neighbourhoods. Hence, the City will be easily searchable as well.
The following table contains a complete list of Toronto districts with a possibly incomplete list of Toronto neighbourhoods within each district:
District NumberNeighbourhoods Included
C01Downtown, Harbourfront, Little Italy, Little Portugal, Dufferin Grove, Palmerston, University, Bay Street Corridor, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Trinity Bellwoods, South Niagara, Island airport, The Islands, waterfront communities C1, Queen's Park, Ontario Provincial Government, Victoria Hotel, Central Bay Street, First Canadian Place, Design Exchange, Adelaide, University of Toronto, Union Station
C02The Annex, Yorkville, South Hill, Summerhill, Wychwood Park, Deer Park, Casa Loma
C03Forest Hill South, Oakwood–Vaughan, Humewood–Cedarvale, Corso Italia, Humewood-Cedarvale, Forest Hill Road Park
C04Bedford Park, Lawrence Manor, North Toronto, Forest Hill North, Lawrence Park, Lawrence Heights, Roselawn
C06North York, Clanton Park, Bathurst Manor
C07Willowdale West, Newtonbrook West, Westminster–Branson, Lansing-Westgate
C08Cabbagetown, St. Lawrence Market, Toronto waterfront, Moss Park, Church and Wellesley, Garden District, Regent Park, St. James Town, Ryerson, Berczy Park
C09Moore Park, Rosedale
C10Davisville Village, Midtown Toronto, Mount Pleasant, Davisville North, Davisville
C11Leaside, Thorncliffe Park, Flemingdon Park
C12York Mills, St.Andrew - Windfields, Bridle Path, Sunnybrook, York Mills West
C13Don Mills, Parkwoods–Donalda, Victoria Village, Banbury, Parkwoods
C14Newtonbrook East, Willowdale East, Newtonbrook
C15Hillcrest Village, Bayview Woods-Steeles, Bayview Village, Don Valley Village, Henry Farm, Pleasant View
E01Riverdale, Danforth, Leslieville, Blake-Jones, Greenwood, Coxwell, Studio District
E02The Beaches, Woodbine Corridor, East End - Danforth, The Beaches West, South Central Letter Processing Plant Toronto
E03Danforth, East York, Playter Estates, Broadview North, O'Connor–Parkview, Crescent Town, Woodbine Heights, Woodbine Gardens, Parkview Hill
E04The Golden Mile, Dorset Park, Wexford, Maryvale, Scarborough Junction, Ionview, Clairlea, Birchmount
E05Steeles, L'Amoreaux West, Tam O'Shanter – Sullivan, Clarks Corners, L'Amoreaux
E06Birch Cliff, Oakridge, Hunt Club, Cliffside
E07Agincourt, Malvern West, Milliken
E08Scarborough Village, Cliffcrest, Guildwood, Eglinton East
E09Scarborough City Centre, Woburn, Morningside, Bendale, Cedarbrae
E10Rouge, Port Union, West Hill, Highland Creek, Port Union
E11Rouge, Malvern, Rouge, Upper Rouge
W01High Park, South Parkdale, Swansea, Roncesvalles Village, Roncesvalles, Parkdale Village
W02Bloor West Village, Baby Point, The Junction, High Park North, Runnymede, Dovercourt Village, Christie
W03Keelesdale, Eglinton West, Rockcliffe–Smythe, Weston-Pellam Park, Corso Italia, Davenport, Caledonia-Fairbanks
W04York, Glen Park, Amesbury, Pelmo Park – Humberlea, Weston, Fairbank, Maple Leaf, Mount Dennis, Pelmo Park – Humberlea W4, Beechborough, Greenbrook, Yorkdale, Rustic, Glencairn, Upwood Park
W05Downsview, Humber Summit, Humbermede, Jane and Finch, York University Heights, York University, Pelmo Park – Humberlea W5, Downsview-Roding-CFB, Emery
W06New Toronto, Long Branch, Mimico, Alderwood, Humber Bay Shores
W07Sunnylea, Sunnylea, Stonegate - Queenway, Thompson Orchard
W08The Kingsway, Central Etobicoke, Eringate – Centennial – West Deane, Princess-Rosethorn, Edenbridge-Humber Valley, Islington–City Centre West, Markland Wood, Royal York South West, Princess Gardens, Humber Valley Village
W09Kingsview Village-The Westway, Richview, Humber Heights – Westmount, Martin Grove Gardens, Kingsview Village, Westmount
W10Rexdale, Clairville, Thistletown - Beaumond Heights, Smithfield: Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown, The Elms, West Humber - Clairville, Mount Olive

Business improvement areas

There are also several dozen city designated business improvement areas, covering almost all of Toronto's commercial areas. Some of these serve a particular ethnic group or several similar ethnic groups as part of an ethnic enclave.
For administrative purposes, the City of Toronto divides the city into 140 neighbourhoods. These divisions are used for internal planning purposes. The boundaries and names often do not conform to the usage of the general population or designated business improvement areas. A number of neighbourhood maps of Toronto do exist, some produced by real estate firms and some by Internet portals. A project to map the neighbourhoods according to the common usage of the residents was done by the Toronto Star newspaper. Based on feedback from Star readers, it has produced the most comprehensive, albeit informal, neighbourhood map.

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