Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.060% of Playter Estates-Danforth’s homes were built before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, Playter Estates-Danforth has 3.4 times the share. The nearest heritage to Playter Estates-Danforth is Don Valley Brick Works, 1 km off, one of 39 places within 5 km. Look 1.9 km away, to Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Within 5 km of Playter Estates-Danforth, the decades after Confederation left the most
Each historic place within 5 km of Playter Estates-Danforth, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
The earliest is Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell, begun in 1793. 37 dated places within 5 km make up the record. 14 are older than 1867.
Near Playter Estates-Danforth, within 5 km: 29 places of national rank
By age, Ashbridge Estate leads, from 1793, at 3 km. Within 5 km there are 39 in all. They belong to 20 towns, chiefly Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Moss Park.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 1.5 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 1.8 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Don BreweryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1876 · 2.4 km away, in Regent Park |
| Studio BuildingNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 2.6 km away, in Rosedale-Moore Park |
| Maple Leaf GardensNational Historic Site · 1931–1932 · 2.8 km away, in Church-Wellesley |
| Enoch Turner SchoolhouseOntario Heritage Trust property · 1848 · 3 km away, in Moss Park |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 3 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 3 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Eaton's 7th Floor Auditorium and Round RoomNational Historic Site · 1930–1931 · 3 km away, in Yonge-Bay Corridor |
| Heliconian HallNational Historic Site · 1876–1877 · 3.2 km away, in Annex |
| Gooderham and Worts DistilleryNational Historic Site · 1859–1928 · 3.2 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands |
New homes are rare in Playter Estates-Danforth: 0.3% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Only 7.3% of Playter Estates-Danforth’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 0.8% of Playter Estates-Danforth’s, against 15% in the typical town. Over half of the homes in Playter Estates-Danforth were already standing by 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Playter Estates-Danforth compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,700 to 7,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Baie-Saint-Paul and Augusta. The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Playter Estates-Danforth and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playter Estates-Danforth | 7,712 | 0 | 0 | — |
| North Riverdale | 11,491 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Broadview North | 11,080 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Blake-Jones | 7,494 | 0 | 0 | — |
| North St.James Town | 18,733 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cabbagetown-South St.James Town | 11,205 | 2 | 1 | 1857 |
| South Riverdale | 28,264 | 0 | 0 | — |
Playter Estates-Danforth in brief
The 2021 Census dates 60% of Playter Estates-Danforth’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
Questions about Playter Estates-Danforth’s history
How many historic places does Playter Estates-Danforth have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Playter Estates-Danforth; Don Valley Brick Works, in Leaside-Bennington, is 1 km away.
How old are the homes in Playter Estates-Danforth?
60% 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).