Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0An older town: 33% of Oakridge’s homes predate 1961
For Oakridge, that is 1.9 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Within 10 km of Oakridge there are 31 designated places; Ashbridge Estate, at 4.8 km, is the closest. For the highest designations, the closest town is Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, 7.9 km off.
Within 10 km of Oakridge, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
The area, not the town: places within 10 km of Oakridge, dated by the first construction year on their records.
30 places within 10 km have a date. 11 go back before 1867. Ashbridge Estate, in Greenwood-Coxwell, is the oldest (1793).
The highest designation, 23 times, within 10 km of Oakridge
Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell is the nearest, 4.8 km away. All told, 31 places are within 10 km. Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Moss Park hold most of them, among 16 towns.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 4.8 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 6.8 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Don BreweryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1876 · 7.4 km away, in Regent Park |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 7.6 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 7.8 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Enoch Turner SchoolhouseOntario Heritage Trust property · 1848 · 8 km away, in Moss Park |
| Gooderham and Worts DistilleryNational Historic Site · 1859–1928 · 8.1 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 8.3 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Fourth York Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1833–1836 · 8.7 km away, in Moss Park |
| Bank of Upper Canada BuildingNational Historic Site · 1827–1835 · 8.7 km away, in Moss Park |
| Studio BuildingNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 8.8 km away, in Rosedale-Moore Park |
| Maple Leaf GardensNational Historic Site · 1931–1932 · 8.8 km away, in Church-Wellesley |
Little new building in Oakridge: 1% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More than half of Oakridge’s housing predates 1981. Oakridge built little from 2001 to 2015: 5.5% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 42% of Oakridge’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Oakridge and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakridge | 13,913 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Taylor-Massey | 15,050 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Birchcliffe-Cliffside | 23,115 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Clairlea-Birchmount | 27,690 | 0 | 0 | — |
| O'Connor-Parkview | 18,746 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East End-Danforth | 22,055 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Woodbine-Lumsden | 7,928 | 0 | 0 | — |
Oakridge in brief
Oakridge’s homes from before 1961 come to 33%, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
Questions about Oakridge’s history
How many historic places does Oakridge have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Oakridge; Ashbridge Estate, in Greenwood-Coxwell, is 4.8 km away.
How old are the homes in Oakridge?
33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). 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).