Photo: Can Pac Swire from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0East End-Danforth: 24% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, above 88% of Canadian towns
In East End-Danforth, 32% of residents belong to a visible minority, beside 15% across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census put the neighbourhood’s population at 22,055, in 9,480 households. For East End-Danforth, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 14%. On immigrants, East End-Danforth sits higher than just over two thirds of Canadian towns: 27%.
Below 72% of Canadian towns: 9.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With a median age of 41, East End-Danforth is younger than 56% of Canadian towns. 17% of residents are under 15. The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ East End-Danforth, 41. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women.
One-person households make up 34% in East End-Danforth, more than in 75% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Here 9.9% of households are one-parent families, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 8.2%. One-person households make up 27% across Canada’s towns. There are 2.3 people in the average household.
A lower share of married residents 15 and over than 61% of Canadian towns, at 43%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
32% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. The usual figure: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Census figures put common-law partners at 11% in East End-Danforth.
East End-Danforth sits below 90% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (19%)
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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
54% of homes were built before 1961 and 15% in 2001 or later. Measured more widely, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Higher than in 81% of Canadian towns: 46% of households rent their home.
The median household brings in $91,800 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Half of East End-Danforth’s households had a total income above $91,800, 7% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Among Ontario’s towns, the typical figure is $91,600. 30% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 8.9% in East End-Danforth, more than in 64% of Canadian towns
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Recent arrivals are 23% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. What’s more, 9.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a lower share than in 61% of Canadian towns. By way of comparison, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (45%), then in Europe (25%).
46% of residents said they have no religion, a share 80% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (6.1%). At 1.3%, the share of Indigenous residents is lower than in 75% of Canadian towns. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%.
East End-Danforth sits above 67% of Canadian towns for bilingual residents (13%)
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
9.8% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.3% speak neither official language. For bilingual residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 7.5%. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 1.7%.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 88% of Canadian towns: 53%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 6%, against 9.5%. To put it in context, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 60% of residents 15 and over had a job
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 60%.
Ranked by age, 19th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Cobourg is the oldest at 54.8, Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver the youngest at 31.4. The closest ages to East End-Danforth’s belong to Old Barrhaven West (40), Rivière-des-Prairies (40.1), Rockcliffe-Smythe (42) and Cole Harbour (43).
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than East End-Danforth
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East End-Danforth | 22,055 | — | 41 | 14% | 27% |
| Woodbine-Lumsden | 7,928 | 1.2 km | 41.7 | 16% | 32% |
| Woodbine Corridor | 12,283 | 1.2 km | 40.6 | 12% | 25% |
| Taylor-Massey | 15,050 | 1.3 km | 37.2 | 12% | 54% |
| The Beaches | 21,602 | 1.4 km | 43.6 | 17% | 21% |
| Oakridge | 13,913 | 2.1 km | 38 | 14% | 53% |
| Greenwood-Coxwell | 14,146 | 2.1 km | 39.7 | 13% | 28% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
Questions about East End-Danforth’s residents
How diverse is East End-Danforth?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 27%. A visible minority makes up 32% and Indigenous residents 1.3%.
What religion are people in East End-Danforth?
Most often Christian (41%) or no religion (46%); other religions make up 13%.
Is East End-Danforth good for families?
Children under 15 are 17% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 47% of households and one-parent families 9.9%. Schools near East End-Danforth are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in East End-Danforth?
Median total household income in East End-Danforth was $91,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of East End-Danforth?
22,055, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for East End-Danforth alone.
What is the average age in East End-Danforth?
Half the residents are older than 41 and half younger, younger than 56% of Canadian towns; 17% are children under 15 and 14% are 65 or over.
Is East End-Danforth bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 13% are. Another 0% speak only French and 86% only English, and French is the first language of 1.7%.
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).