Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.030% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, a share 91% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Most recent wave: 16% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). The 2021 Census counted 7,712 residents in 3,645 households. Here, 7.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 47%, more than in just over four fifths of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Playter Estates-Danforth
Many graduates
68% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 98% of Canadian towns; 21% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
A neighbourhood of high-rises
30% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 5.8% of homes are condominiums. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
41% of households are one person living alone, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 19% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 53% of households, more than in 87% of Canadian towns, and 65% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Playter Estates-Danforth sits below 71% of Canadian towns for children under 15 (14%)
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Compared with 11% across Canada’s towns, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Residents aged 65 and over: nearly a fifth of the total. Half of Playter Estates-Danforth’s residents are over 43.5, older than in 58% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Playter Estates-Danforth, 43.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Playter Estates-Danforth: 41% of households are one person living alone, above 91% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
At 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. To put it in context, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. 6.3% of households are one-parent families.
Below 67% of Canadian towns: 40% of residents 15 and over are married
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: just over a third of adults, against a typical 27%. Measured more widely, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. For Playter Estates-Danforth, the census puts common-law partners at 12%.
Playter Estates-Danforth: 53% of households rent their home, above 87% of Canadian towns
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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
Older homes outnumber new: 60% predate 1961, 1.1% date from 2001 or later. Playter Estates-Danforth has fewer households in single-detached houses than 90% of Canadian towns, at 17%. Renter households: 25% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
$91,000 a year is the median household income here
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Playter Estates-Danforth’s households had a total income above $91,000, 6% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Ontario’s towns, half of households had more than $91,600 before tax. COVID-19 benefits went to 27% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
In Playter Estates-Danforth, 27% of residents are immigrants, more than in 67% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (51%) and in Asia (24%). The wider picture: 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. On residents without Canadian citizenship, 6.6% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Visible minority residents: 19%, a higher share than 55% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
0.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity (Canada’s towns: 2.8%). Visible minority residents: 15% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. Among other religions: Jewish (3.3%).
A larger share of bilingual residents than 73% of Canadian towns: 19%
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Little separates the share of residents whose mother tongue is French here, 2%, from the figure across Canada’s towns. The comparison figure for bilingual residents is 7.5% across Canada’s towns. At home, 8.6% mostly speak another language; 1.7% speak neither English nor French.
Above 98% of Canadian towns: 68% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 3.3% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 57% of residents 15 and over had a job
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, much like this 57%.
Of 41 towns its size (7,570 to 7,855 people), the 17th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
They run from La Broquerie, at 28.6, to Minden Hills, at 58.8. Nearest to Playter Estates-Danforth in age: Lakeview (42.3), Blackburn Hamlet (43.1), Brazeau County (43.6) and Valley Ridge (43.8).
Median age: 1 of the 6 towns around Playter Estates-Danforth are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playter Estates-Danforth | 7,712 | — | 43.5 | 19% | 27% |
| North Riverdale | 11,491 | 0.9 km | 43.5 | 17% | 24% |
| Broadview North | 11,080 | 1.1 km | 42.7 | 17% | 42% |
| Blake-Jones | 7,494 | 1.4 km | 40 | 14% | 31% |
| North St.James Town | 18,733 | 1.8 km | 36.7 | 11% | 53% |
| Cabbagetown-South St.James Town | 11,205 | 1.9 km | 45.5 | 19% | 35% |
| South Riverdale | 28,264 | 2.0 km | 39.3 | 13% | 29% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Playter Estates-Danforth’s residents
What is the median income in Playter Estates-Danforth?
$91,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Playter Estates-Danforth (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Playter Estates-Danforth?
Playter Estates-Danforth had 7,712 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Playter Estates-Danforth?
43.5 is the median age, older than 58% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 14%. 65 and over: 19%.
Is Playter Estates-Danforth bilingual?
19% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 80% English only. French is the mother tongue of 2%.
How diverse is Playter Estates-Danforth?
Immigrants make up 27% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 19% are members of a visible minority, and 0.7% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Playter Estates-Danforth?
Christian: 45%. No religion: 47%. Another religion: 8%.
Is Playter Estates-Danforth good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 14%. 44% of households are couple families and 6.3% one-parent families. Schools near Playter Estates-Danforth are on its Schools page.
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).