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East L'AmoreauxToronto

TownGrade
B+
#634 of 2,556

It is one of the 158 neighbourhoods that make up Toronto. With 21,533 residents, it is a neighbourhood in Toronto.

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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain
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East L'Amoreaux, Toronto · Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain

Population
21,533
people, Census 2021
Median age
43.6
years · Ontario’s towns: 46.8
Postsecondary
52%
of residents 15 and over hold a postsecondary certificate, diploma or degree · Canadian towns: 56%
Walk, cycle, transit
25%
walk, cycle or take transit to work · Canadian towns: 8%

Is East L'Amoreaux a good place to live?

East L'Amoreaux does the important things well, at a cost. The neighbourhood grades B+ overall and ranks #206 of 858 in Ontario. On that grade it does better than 72% of Canadian towns. Health is a strength (A). Safety is another plus (A). The drawback is cost of living (D−). Jobs and pay trail most towns (D).

Rents here are the metro area's average, shared by every town and neighbourhood in it. Safety uses the city's Crime Severity Index, scaled by this neighbourhood's own violent and property crime rates. Health is graded on the health region's survey figures and life expectancy, with the distance to hospital giving the town its own spread.

How East L'Amoreaux grades

Each subject compares East L'Amoreaux with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.

How grading works

How TownRatings grades Canadian towns →

What makes East L'Amoreaux stand out

The 3 things East L'Amoreaux does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in East L'Amoreaux.

HousingCost of living D−

Rent takes more of local pay in East L'Amoreaux than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 29% of household income

$755,000median home value, 2021D−Cost of living Grade

The rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom numbers here cover the Toronto metro area

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 32% of households, above Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. Owners make up 75% of households, about level with both Ontario’s towns (76%) and Canadian towns (74%).

What homes were worth · The median owner’s estimate at the 2021 census

East L'Amoreaux$755,000
Ontario$695,000
Canadian towns$406,000
Census 2021East L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Households spending 30%+ on shelter32%22%18%
Rent as a share of income29%22%20%
$2,045
monthly rent for a two-bedroom

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; CMHC Rental Market Survey via Statistics Canada · Values come from owners at the 2021 census and incomes from 2020, so they predate the later rise in rates.

HealthHealth A

For health, East L'Amoreaux is ahead of 91% of Canadian towns

50%very good or excellent healthAHealth Grade

Health survey and life expectancy for the City of Toronto Health Unit

A child born in the region can expect 84.7 years, above both Ontario’s towns (82.8) and Canadian towns (81.5). The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. Smoking is rarer than in the province: 9.2% of adults, against 11% for Ontario. For East L'Amoreaux itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.6 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical.

Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised

East L'Amoreaux50%
Ontario’s towns51%
Canadian towns52%
HealthEast L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Life expectancy at birth84.782.881.5
Smokers9.2%10%12%
Chronic conditions (average share)16%17%17%
Very good or excellent health50%51%52%
84.7
years of life expectancy, 2022/2024
0.6 km
from homes to a hospital, on average
9.2%
of adults smoke, age-standardised
0.4 km
from homes to a pharmacy, on average

Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities

SafetySafety A

For safety, East L'Amoreaux gets an A

66Crime Severity Index

The violent index for its police area came to 93, above Ontario’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Property crime in its police area ran at 34.4 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Ontario’s towns (30.5) and Canadian towns (31.2). Behind Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 sits data gathered across the Toronto service area, with East L'Amoreaux one part of it.

Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year

202369
202469
202560
2023–2025East L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Violent Crime Severity Index937686
Property crime per 1,00034.430.531.2
3.9
violent incidents per 1,000 in the neighbourhood itself, a year
56
non-violent Crime Severity Index
31%
of incidents cleared, 2023–25

Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average

Work & commuteJobs & income D

Commuters in East L'Amoreaux travel further than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns, 36 min on average

25%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2021

Car or van72%
Public transit23%
Walk2%
Bicycle0%
Census 2021East L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Average trip36 min29 min26 min
$84,700
median household income, 2020
26%
worked from home, May 2021
73%
of commuters work inside the municipality

Statistics Canada, Census 2021 (labour and commuting) · Counted in May 2021, under pandemic rules: fewer commutes and more people between jobs than in a normal year.

Natural hazardsHazard risk A−

East L'Amoreaux is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Toronto Regional Conservation Authority

Lowwildfire bandA−Hazard risk Grade

No wildfire is mapped within 25 km of East L'Amoreaux’s homes since 1986 (0% of the land, 0.001% a year). Radon is lower than usual: 2.7% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. East L'Amoreaux doesn’t get its own earthquake risk figures; the ones here come from the city of Toronto.

Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³

East L'Amoreaux2.7%
Ontario’s towns4%
Canadian towns6.6%
HazardsEast L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Radon tests above the guideline2.7%4%6.6%
Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year$0.043$0.043$0.030
Low
wildfire band
13 km
to the nearest land burned since 1986
1
flood study on the national inventory

NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory

SchoolsSchools A−

6 school boards overlap in East L'Amoreaux, covering Ontario’s four systems

90schools within 3 kmA−Schools Grade

The largest is Agincourt Collegiate Institute, with 1,460 students. The 78 with results split, 36 in the upper two fifths in Ontario and 16 in the lower. Within 3 km of East L'Amoreaux are 77 elementary schools and 13 secondary schools, teaching 29,110 students. Of the 90, 3 teach in French (10% of schools in Ontario).

SchoolLevelStudentsSystem
Aldergrove Public School Middle fifth in OntarioLargest elementary schoolElementary · Grades JK–8Elementary · Grades JK–8630English public
Agincourt Collegiate Institute Second fifth in OntarioLargest secondary schoolSecondary · Grades 9–12Secondary · Grades 9–121,460English public
ÉÉC Saint-Jean-de-Lalande FrenchTeaches in FrenchElementary · Grades JK–8Elementary · Grades JK–8135French Catholic
Agnes Macphail Public School Top fifth in OntarioResults in the top fifth in OntarioElementary · Grades JK–8Elementary · Grades JK–8250English public

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Schools by system · Schools within 3 km

English public67
English Catholic20
French Catholic2
French public1
Schools within 3 kmEast L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
School boards643
29,110
students at the schools within 3 km, 2024-25
1.2 km
to the nearest secondary school

Provincial school lists and results, 2024-25

Climate

July in East L'Amoreaux runs hotter than in 91% of Canadian towns

27.3°CJuly afternoons

Snow peaks in January: 40 cm in a normal year. The frost-free season runs from 3 May to 13 October, 161 days. Rain and snow peak in June, at 87 mm. The coldest nights, in January, bottom out at −10.1°C, lower than Ontario’s towns (−9.1°C) yet higher than Canadian towns (−13.5°C).

Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

Winter−0.4°C
Spring11.9°C
Summer26.1°C
Autumn14.5°C
Normals, 1991–2020East L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
July afternoon high27.3°C26.7°C25.5°C
January night low−10.1°C−9.1°C−13.5°C
Days with frost a year145139159
145
days with frost a year
161
frost-free days, 3 May to 13 Oct
113
days with precipitation a year

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Toronto Buttonville (Airport))

Who lives here

Visible minorities make up more of East L'Amoreaux than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 86%

43.6median age

People 65 and over make up 20% of the town, above Ontario’s towns (19%) and Canadian towns (19%) alike. One measure of family life: 14% of residents are under 15.

East L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada

Ages · Share of residents in each age group, Census 2021

Schooling · Highest qualification, residents 15 and over

No certificate, diploma or degree20%
Postsecondary qualification52%

Women and men · all residents

52.3% of East L'Amoreaux’s residents are women

11,255 women and 10,275 men at the 2021 census; across Canada, women are 50.9%.

Who lives in East L'Amoreaux
East L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Under 1514%15%16%
15 to 6466%65%64%
65+20%19%19%
No certificate, diploma or degree20%15%16%
Postsecondary qualification52%56%56%

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; Ontario and Canada: medians of towns of 2,500+

Weather

East L'Amoreaux in November: highs near 7°C, lows near −1°C

7°Ca normal November afternoon

At the extremes, July afternoons reach 27°C and January nights −10°C. A normal December brings highs of 2°C, lows of −6°C. November normally sees 77 mm of precipitation. Expect around 12 cm of snow in November.

Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

November7°C
December2°C
January−2°C
February−1°C
SeasonHighLowRain and snow
Winter0°C−9°C177 mm
Spring12°C1°C211 mm
Summer26°C14°C244 mm
Autumn15°C5°C230 mm
−1°C
a normal November night
77 mm
of rain and snow in a normal November

ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (Toronto Buttonville (Airport)); the forecast is on the Weather page

Library & civic lifeCivic life grade B−

East L'Amoreaux has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Bridlewood, 1.2 km away

The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, East L'Amoreaux among them.

Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada

Outdoors

Rouge National Urban Park lies 8.1 km beyond East L'Amoreaux’s edge

2.2%of the land within 10 km protected

18 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. Uxbridge Urban Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 31 km.

Protected land · of the land within 10 km

East L'Amoreaux2.2%
Ontario’s towns2.3%
Canadian towns2.3%
OutdoorsEast L'AmoreauxOntarioCanada
Public protected areas within 10 km844
Protected land within 10 km2.2%2.3%2.3%
8.1 km
to Rouge National Urban Park
31 km
to Uxbridge Urban Provincial Park
8
public protected areas within 10 km

Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches

Keep exploring

Everything we know about East L'Amoreaux

15pages on East L'Amoreaux
Nearby attractions

Milliken Park and 4 more in and around East L'Amoreaux

Sights in East L'Amoreaux and close by, ordered by how widely each is known.

All attractions →
Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata · ODCAF · federal and Québec heritage registers · CPCAD

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

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About East L'Amoreaux

Neighbourhood in Toronto

East L'Amoreaux is one of Toronto’s neighbourhoods, which TownRatings draws from census dissemination areas and names from the city’s own map or OpenStreetMap.

Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.

Population
21,533 (people, 2021 estimate)
Province or territory
Ontario
City
Toronto
Census subdivision
3520005

East L'Amoreaux’s neighbours

The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Statistics Canada

L'Amoreaux WestTam O'Shanter-SullivanSteelesPleasant ViewAgincourt NorthMillikenL'Amoreaux WestTam O'Shanter-SullivanSteelesPleasant ViewAgincourt NorthMillikenEast L'Amoreaux
How the neighbours grade
TownPeoplekmOverallCostSafetyHealth
East L'Amoreaux21,533—B+D−AA
L'Amoreaux West21,5751.6BD−A−A
Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan27,5261.9BD−A−A
Steeles22,9432.3A−D−A+A
Pleasant View15,2482.6B+D−AA
Agincourt North27,7902.6BD−A−A
Milliken12,1383.1BD−B+A

People: Statistics Canada, Census 2021. Distances: centre to centre.

Questions about East L'Amoreaux

Is East L'Amoreaux a young town or an old one?

The median resident is 43.6 years old, against 45.2 for the median of Canadian towns. 14% are under 15 and 20% are 65 or over.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155) and 2021 census boundaries · Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2023–25 (35-10-0026, 35-10-0183 to 35-10-0190) · CMHC rents as published by Statistics Canada (34-10-0133) · grades by 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).