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Rent takes more of local pay in Downtown Yonge East than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 35% of household income

The median home value was $755,000, above both Ontario’s towns ($695,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). Shelter took 30% or more of income for 45% of households, higher than both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). Downtown Yonge East doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Toronto metro area.

Downtown Yonge East is graded a D for safety

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 93, higher than both Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86). Where it is policed, thefts, break-ins and damage came to 34.4 per 1,000 a year, above both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2). Figures for Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 are published for the Toronto service area as a whole, not for Downtown Yonge East alone.

For health, Downtown Yonge East is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns

The health survey and life expectancy numbers here cover the City of Toronto Health Unit

Residents have 0.3 km to cover to reach a hospital, below both Ontario’s towns (3.3 km) and Canadian towns (3.7 km). People in the region live to 84.7 on average: 87.2 for women and 82.0 for men in 2022/2024. Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: half of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. At 9.2%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 11% for Ontario.

Fewer of Downtown Yonge East’s 15-to-64s are in work than in 76% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 29 min, about level with Ontario’s towns (29 min) and above Canadian towns (26 min).

Downtown Yonge East faces few natural hazards: little fire nearby, low seismic risk, radon over the guideline in 2.7% of tested homes

Shared with the rest of the city of Toronto: earthquake risk

Seismic risk in Downtown Yonge East sits near the middle: $0.043 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. No one has filed a flood map for Downtown Yonge East on the national inventory.

3 boards run the schools in and around Downtown Yonge East

In French: 4 of the 70 schools, where in Ontario the share is 10%. Of its 53 tested schools, 24 sit in the top two fifths in Ontario and 16 in the bottom two. Counting a 3 km margin, Downtown Yonge East has 49 elementary schools, 18 secondary schools and 3 alternative or adult schools, for 21,045 students.

Downtown Yonge East has milder winters than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: January lows of −6.7°C

A normal winter brings 115 cm of snow, lower than both Ontario’s towns (146 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). Frost usually lifts by 11 April and returns around 6 November: 208 days without it. Midsummer afternoons in Downtown Yonge East peak at about 27.0°C. January is the snowiest month, with 32 cm on average.

Fewer children live in Downtown Yonge East than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 5.5% are under 15

58% of residents belong to a visible minority, higher than both Ontario’s towns (26%) and Canadian towns (15%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 11% of residents.

Expect November days around 8°C in Downtown Yonge East, nights around 2°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Toronto forecast, on the Weather page. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 71 mm. Snow is normal by November, about 9 cm over the month. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near 3°C and lows near −3°C.

Clarington Public Library - Orono Branch is Downtown Yonge East’s public library

Downtown Yonge East is served by Clarington Public Library - Orono Branch, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people.

Within 23 km of Downtown Yonge East: Rouge National Urban Park

39 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest HTO Beach. E.T. Seton Park (130 ha) is the biggest, 4.8 km from town. Bronte Creek Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 41 km. 10 mapped walking routes pass within 2 km, among them the PATH and Uptown Toronto Discovery Walk.

5 top designations among Downtown Yonge East’s 7 historic places

Designations here include 2 provincial or municipal listings. Go back to 1850 and you reach St. Lawrence Hall, the oldest of them. Homes from before 1961 make up 6.9% of the stock, below both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%).