Toronto at a Glance
Indicators (2017) | City of Toronto | Toronto Region |
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Land Area (km2) | 630 | 5,903 |
Population (July 2017) | 2,929,886 | 6,346,088 |
Unemployment Rate (Population 15+) | 7.2% | 6.4% |
Gross Domestic Product (in 2007 $ billion, 2016) | $168.0 | $313.1 |
Average (Mean) Household Income (2015) | $98,174 | $104,378 |
For the most recent monthly indicators, see the Toronto Economic Bulletin.
Indicators (2017) | City of Toronto | Toronto Region * |
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Labour Force (Pop 15+) | 1,624,600 | 3,516,000 |
Average Income (Pop 15+, 2015) | $47,617 | $46,082 |
Office Space Inventory (ft2) * | 123,030,070 | 177,496,479 |
Industrial Space Inventory (ft2) * | 237,676,885 | 769,523,217 |
Retail Space Inventory (ft2) * | 44,144,000 | 113,155,000 |
Average Price All Home Types * | $834,856 | $823,874 |
Housing Starts (units) | 14,724 | 38,712 |
Total Annual Building Permits ($000s) | $8,835,415 | $19,125,113 |
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$4,437,600 | $11,189,009 |
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$2,495,793 | $4,419,255 |
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$879,686 | $1,417,502 |
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$1,022,336 | $2,027,347 |
Residential Tax Rate | 0.6616472% | N/A |
Multi Residential Tax Rate | 1.4634065% | N/A |
Commercial Tax Rate | 2.5202233% | N/A |
Industrial Tax Rate | 2.5862717% | N/A |
Retail Sales ($billion) | N/A | $90.3 |
Number of Businesses (active locations with employees) | 106,029 | 237,565 |
Number of Visitors (million, 2015) | N/A | 40.0 |
Toronto region is defined as Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) unless denoted with an asterisk (*), which indicates Greater Toronto Area (GTA) or other regional geography. Number of businesses in the city of Toronto and Toronto CMA comprise of businesses with and without physical locations; see Statistics Canada’s Business Register for more information on the number of registered businesses.
Toronto – the name derived from the Huron word for “fishing weir” – is on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario at Latitude 43 39 N, Longitude 79 23 W.
Located on a broad sloping plateau cut by numerous river valleys, Toronto covers 641 sq.km. and stretches 43 km from east to west and 21 km from north to south at its longest points. The perimeter is approximately 180 km.
More statistics:
- Waterfront is 76.5 meters above sea level; shoreline stretches 43 km or 138 km when including in the bays and islands
- The intersection of Steeles Avenue West and Keele Street is the highest point at 209 meters
307 km of rivers and creeks run through the city - All rivers and creeks flow into Lake Ontario and are part of the Atlantic Ocean Drainage Basin
- Most northerly point is the intersection of Steeles Ave E. and Pickering Town Line
- Most southerly point is Lake Ontario’s shoreline at the border between Toronto and Mississauga
- Most easterly point is the meeting of the Rouge River and shoreline of Lake Ontario
- Most westerly point is the intersection of Steeles Ave W. and Albion Road
- Toronto is in plant hardiness zone 6 and on the eastern edge of the Carolinian Forest zone
- There are over 1,600 named parks comprised of over 8,000 hectares of land (ravines, valleys, woodlots, parks, beaches, golf courses, destination parks, parkettes) and over 200 km of trails, many of which are suitable for biking and walking.
- Toronto has a total of about 10 million trees, approximately 4 million of which are publicly-owned trees. These include approximately 600,000 street trees (e.g. located on public right of ways on boulevards and commercial trees in sidewalks, etc) and 3.5 million trees in parks, ravines, and other natural areas.
Statistics source: Geospatial Competency Centre, Parks, Forestry & Recreation, Natural Resources Canada.
476,966 | Number of Toronto households that rent |
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46 | As a percentage of all households |
43.5 | Percentage of renters paying more than 30% of pre-tax income on rent |
1.6% | Toronto CMA vacancy rate (2014) |
$1,264 | Average market rent in Toronto for a two-bedroom apartment (Fall 2014) |
$1,173 | Monthly amount of Ontario Works (October 2014), two parents, two children ($710 of which is maximum shelter allowance) |
City of Toronto, 2011 National Household Survey Backgrounder, September 2013
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Report, Greater Toronto Area, Fall 2014
5,253: Estimated number of homeless people sleeping outdoors and in emergency shelters, Violence Against Women shelters, and in health and correctional facilities in Toronto. Estimate from the 2013 Street Needs Assessment. About the same as in 2009. Next survey is in 2018.
447: Estimated number of people sleeping rough in April 2013.
65: Percentage of all homeless who are men. 85 per cent of outdoor homeless are men.
7: Percentage of homeless people reporting experience in the Canadian military.
33: Percentage of outdoor homeless who self-identify as Aboriginal. 16 per cent of all homeless identify as Aboriginal; One per cent of the general population in Toronto identifies as Aboriginal.
21: Percentage of those staying in youth shelters identifying as part of the LGBTQ2S community.
4,812: Number of men, women and children using the emergency shelter system on an average night in May 2017; this is 17.5 per cent higher than May 2016.
80: Percentage increase in number of refugees (mostly families) seeking shelter services over the course of 2016. Those citing “refugee” as reason for service accounted for most of the 2016 rise in demand
93: Percentage of homeless people who want a permanent home.
66: Percentage of homeless people saying that what they really need to end their homelessness is help to pay Toronto’s high rents.
$962: Average private market rent for a bachelor apartment in Toronto (Fall 2016).
$1,137: Average private market rent for a two bedroom apartment in Toronto (Fall 2016).
1.3: Overall vacancy rate for private market rentals in Toronto (Fall 2016)
$706: Ontario Works total monthly allowance for a single adult (Fall 2016).
$1,205: Ontario Works total monthly allowance for a two-adult family with two children (Fall 2016).
46: Percentage of Toronto renter households paying more than 30 per cent of pre-tax income on rent. Almost half of Toronto households rent.
94,000: Number of social housing units in Toronto (As of 2017, all programs are under administration by the City of Toronto).
69,000: Approximate number of rent-geared-to-income units where rents are set at 30 per cent of household income.
90,141: Number of people on the centralized waiting list for rent-geared-to-income (RGI) units as of September 30, 2017
8.5: Average number of years an applicant on the chronological list waits to be housed in a two bedroom apartment*
$2, 250: Monthly cost of a single shelter bed and services in Toronto.
$305.92: Monthly cost of subsidizing each unit of Toronto’s social housing.
SOURCES: City of Toronto 2017 budget analyst notes for Shelter, Support and Housing Administration, Ministry of Community and Social Services, 2013 Street Needs Assessment results, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Housing Connections.