Photo: Can Pac Swire from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0East End-Danforth has higher household incomes than 78% of Canadian towns
Public transit carries 30% of its commuters. At 33.9 minutes on average, the trip to work from East End-Danforth compares with 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. The 2021 census found 71% of working-age people in East End-Danforth employed, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%.
Where East End-Danforth stands out on work
More unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 7.1% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 13%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 33.9 minutes; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. Getting to work ↓
Many work from home
On census day, 49% of those in work were working at home; the middle of Canadian towns is 21%. Getting to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Jobs & income in East End-Danforth: graded C
Better than 25% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #602 of 866 in Ontario.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, trip times.
Graded against Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more; less unemployment and a shorter commute count in its favour.
How the grade works
Census 2021 measures, weighed equally against every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 people or more: the share of residents aged 15 to 64 in work, median household income (2020), the unemployment rate and the average commute. Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
How many in East End-Danforth were working in 2021
Of the 157 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Toronto census division, 99 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 69% of residents that age. In October 2026, 62% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. These are census figures from May 2021, during COVID’s third wave; jobs have recovered since, which the Labour Force Survey shows.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: people in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64, and the census unemployment rate (15 and over); the 25-to-54 rate is Statistics Canada’s own (98-10-0485). The Labour Force Survey and business counts are context, not grade inputs.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 43% of East End-Danforth’s commuters
The car takes 52% of commuters here, under the 88% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. 49% of everyone in work worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
Before tax, the median household in East End-Danforth had $91,800
Of the 157 other places of 2,500 or more in the Toronto census division, 55 have a higher median. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
In the Toronto census division, 43% more people receive EI than in 2019
In the twelve months to August 2026 the number rose by 1%. The count topped out in February 2021 at 165,520 people, 4 times the 2019 average. Roughly 3.5 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for the Toronto census division, not by town. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Walkability in East End-Danforth: graded A+
Better than almost every Canadian town on two measures together, #1 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How East End-Danforth ranks: 265th of 398 Canadian towns of 15,400 to 29,800
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 80% | 5.8% | $148K | A+ |
| 2 | Central Saanich British Columbia | 18,184 | 85% | 4.9% | $103K | A+ |
| 3 | Cap-Rouge Quebec | 17,139 | 81% | 4.3% | $126K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 14 | Wilmot Ontario | 22,890 | 81% | 6.8% | $115K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Thames Centre Ontario | 15,475 | 80% | 7.7% | $113K | A |
| 23 | North Perth Ontario | 18,168 | 83% | 5.7% | $84K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 263 | Granville Entertainment District British Columbia | 19,125 | 73% | 9% | $72K | C |
| 264 | Midland Ontario | 19,305 | 66% | 13% | $70K | C |
| 265 | East End-Danforth Ontario | 22,055 | 71% | 13% | $92K | C |
| 266 | Royal Oak British Columbia | 18,364 | 71% | 11% | $88K | C |
| 267 | Collingwood British Columbia | 18,399 | 76% | 9.4% | $79K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 398 | Parc-Extension Quebec | 29,066 | 61% | 16% | $48K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of East End-Danforth, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Work next door to East End-Danforth
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East End-Danforth | 71% | 13% | $92K | 33.9 min | C | A+ |
| Woodbine-Lumsden 1.2 km | 73% | 12% | $99K | 32.8 min | C | A+ |
| Woodbine Corridor 1.2 km | 71% | 11% | $98K | 32.7 min | C | A+ |
| Taylor-Massey 1.3 km | 60% | 19% | $69K | 39.7 min | D− | A+ |
| The Beaches 1.4 km | 77% | 11% | $123K | 30.3 min | B | A+ |
| Oakridge 2.1 km | 51% | 21% | $60K | 39.3 min | D− | A+ |
| Greenwood-Coxwell 2.1 km | 70% | 12% | $98K | 33 min | C | A+ |
The people of each place: the share in work, unemployment, household income and the average commute, with both grades once they come.
What this data can and can’t tell you
What each figure measures for East End-Danforth, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. It counts only people who wanted work and had none in May 2021, as a share of those working or searching; students and retirees who weren’t looking stay out of both sides.
- Household income. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- Trip times. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s average.
- Employment Insurance. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- In work. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- Which towns we compare. Medians over towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents. Whole cities would swamp them and reserves sit outside the rankings, so neither is in.
- Neighbourhood figures. We add up East End-Danforth’s dissemination areas for its census figures. Flows between places and timed averages exist only for the whole municipality: see Toronto’s page.
Questions about work in East End-Danforth
What is the average household income in East End-Danforth?
At $91,800 before tax in 2020, the median household in East End-Danforth compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in East End-Danforth get to work?
52% of commuters go by car, 30% take public transit, 10% walk and 2.8% cycle. On census day 49% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How many jobs are there in East End-Danforth?
Jobs and commuting flows exist only for Toronto as a whole, and its page carries them.
What is the unemployment rate in East End-Danforth?
The census put unemployment at 13% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Toronto metro area at 7.1%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0323 (EI beneficiaries) · Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (14-10-0459, 14-10-0462) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts (33-10-1176) · grades: TownRatings. 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).