Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0One-parent families: 13%, a higher share than 94% of Canadian towns
Against a figure of 15% across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents in Blake-Jones comes in at 43%. Here, 16% of households live in a building of five or more storeys. At 31%, the share of immigrants is higher than in 73% of Canadian towns. There were 3,105 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 7,494 people.
Blake-Jones sits below 78% of Canadian towns for residents aged 65 and over (14%)
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
With a median age of 40, Blake-Jones is younger than 63% of Canadian towns. By way of comparison, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. In Blake-Jones, 17% of residents are under 15. No age band is larger than 35–39: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Blake-Jones, 40. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
A higher share of one-person households than 66% of Canadian towns, at 31%
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Each household has 2.4 people on average. The share of one-person households across Canada’s towns is 27%.
Only 39% of residents 15 and over are married in Blake-Jones
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
36% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Here, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
Only 15% of households live in a single-detached house in Blake-Jones
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Renter households: 46% here and 25% across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 66% predate 1961, 1.9% date from 2001 or later. Households in single-detached houses: 64% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
A median household income of $90,400 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run high in Blake-Jones: half had more than $90,400, 5% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for Ontario’s towns: $91,600. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 31% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Blake-Jones sits below 72% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (9%)
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 13% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Most immigrants were born in Asia (47%) or in the Americas (20%). The share of residents who moved in within the year across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Blake-Jones sits above 85% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (49%)
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (9%), Buddhist (2.4%) and Jewish (2.3%). As a reference point, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. At 2.7%, Indigenous residents sit close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
14% of residents speak English and French, a share 69% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 2.1%. On average, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 52% in Blake-Jones, more than in 87% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 8.6% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 55% of residents 15 and over had a job
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
55% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 14% are 65 or more.
Of 41 towns its size (7,329 to 7,662 people), the 15th youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The group spans Blairmore Suburban Centre, youngest at 31.8, to Trent Lakes, oldest at 58. Closest in median age to Blake-Jones are Hampstead (39.6), N-Section (bramalea) (39.9), Fruitland (40.2) and Currie Barracks (40.4).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 4 are older than Blake-Jones
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blake-Jones | 7,494 | — | 40 | 14% | 31% |
| North Riverdale | 11,491 | 0.9 km | 43.5 | 17% | 24% |
| South Riverdale | 28,264 | 1.2 km | 39.3 | 13% | 29% |
| Greenwood-Coxwell | 14,146 | 1.2 km | 39.7 | 13% | 28% |
| Danforth | 9,364 | 1.4 km | 41.6 | 18% | 28% |
| Playter Estates-Danforth | 7,712 | 1.4 km | 43.5 | 19% | 27% |
| Danforth East York | 17,073 | 1.6 km | 42.1 | 17% | 32% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, and over all Canadian towns of that size (whole cities and First Nations reserves left out). Percentiles are within Canada only.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
Questions about Blake-Jones’s residents
What is the median income in Blake-Jones?
The median household in Blake-Jones took in $90,400 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Blake-Jones?
Blake-Jones had 7,494 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Blake-Jones?
A median age of 40, younger than 63% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 17%, and people 65 and over 14%.
Is Blake-Jones bilingual?
14% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.1% speak French only and 81% English only. French is the mother tongue of 2.1%.
How diverse is Blake-Jones?
31% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 43% belong to a visible minority and 2.7% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Blake-Jones?
35% are Christian and 49% have no religion; 16% follow another religion.
Is Blake-Jones good for families?
Under 15: 17% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 44% of households. One-parent families: 13%. Schools near Blake-Jones are on its Schools page.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).