Photo: andrewarchy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0Yonge-Doris sits above 99% of Canadian towns for immigrants (64%)
For Yonge-Doris, the census puts households in single-detached houses at 0.1%. The neighbourhood has fewer children under 15 than 93% of Canadian towns, at 11%. There were 9,850 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 20,298 people. The figure for residents without Canadian citizenship is 35% in Yonge-Doris and 5.8% across Canada’s towns.
What stands out about the people of Yonge-Doris
More immigrants than most towns
64% of residents are immigrants, against 26% across Ontario’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (84%) and in Europe (8.8%); 36% of them arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
A mix of backgrounds
Visible minority residents make up 81%, more than in 97% of Canadian towns, and immigrants 64%. Identity & religion ↓
A neighbourhood of high-rises
92% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 99% of Canadian towns; 89% of homes are condominiums. Homes ↓
Many graduates
72% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 99% of Canadian towns; 22% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Yonge-Doris is younger than 76% of Canadian towns: a median age of 38.2
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
With residents aged 65 and over at 17%, Yonge-Doris is behind just over three fifths of Canadian towns on that count. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 10% here.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Yonge-Doris, 38.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women.
Households here average 2.1 people, below 87% 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.
37% of households are one person living alone; across Canada’s towns the figure is 27%. One-parent families: 9% of the total. Shared houses stand out: nearly one in ten households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 92% of Canadian towns.
A lower share of common-law partners than 83% of Canadian towns, at 6.5%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Just over a third of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns. Census figures put married residents 15 and over at 47% in Yonge-Doris.
Households in buildings of five or more storeys make up 92% in Yonge-Doris, more than in 99% 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
Newer homes outnumber old: 55% date from 2001 or later, 0.6% from before 1961. Higher than in 80% of Canadian towns: 45% of households rent their home.
Half above, half below $73,600 a year in household income
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Yonge-Doris’s, at $73,600, is 14% lower. For Ontario’s towns, the median household income is $91,600. In 2020, 28% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Above 95% of Canadian towns: 22% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 75%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (84%) and in Europe (8.8%). Across the comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals are 36% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns.
In Yonge-Doris, 81% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 97% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Indigenous residents are rarer here than in 98% of Canadian towns. Visible minority residents make up 15% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 42% of residents said they have no religion.
76% have a mother tongue other than English or French
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
At home, 50% mostly speak another language; 6.4% speak neither English nor French. Few places have so few bilingual residents: 5.6% here, fewer than in just over two thirds of Canadian towns. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 0.7%.
Yonge-Doris: 72% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, above 99% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Yonge-Doris, 72%, and 13% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 1.8%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
In work on census day: 55% of adults
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 55%, fewer residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns, and 17% are 65 or over.
15th lowest median age among 41 towns of 19,753 to 20,864
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is Mitchell (28.8), at the other Niagara-on-the-Lake (57.2). Next to Yonge-Doris on this scale come Overbrook (37.9), Centre (Montréal-Nord) (38), Gabriel-Sagard (38.3) and Wismer Commons (38.8).
Yonge-Doris and its 6 nearest towns: 5 of them are older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yonge-Doris | 20,298 | — | 38.2 | 17% | 64% |
| Willowdale West | 17,210 | 0.8 km | 40.5 | 21% | 56% |
| East Willowdale | 15,514 | 0.9 km | 41 | 18% | 60% |
| Avondale | 13,803 | 1.3 km | 35.3 | 10% | 58% |
| Lansing-Westgate | 15,980 | 1.8 km | 39.6 | 16% | 45% |
| Newtonbrook West | 23,978 | 2.3 km | 42.5 | 19% | 66% |
| Newtonbrook East | 15,996 | 2.3 km | 44 | 23% | 64% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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. Each comparison is its own median: over Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, and over all Canadian towns of that size (whole cities and First Nations reserves left out). Percentiles are within Canada only.
Questions about Yonge-Doris’s residents
What is the median income in Yonge-Doris?
Half of Yonge-Doris’s households had more than $73,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Yonge-Doris?
The 2021 Census counted 20,298 people in Yonge-Doris.
What is the average age in Yonge-Doris?
The median age is 38.2, younger than 76% of Canadian towns. 11% are under 15 and 17% 65 or older.
Is Yonge-Doris bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 5.6% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 88% speak only English and 0% only French; 0.7% grew up with French.
How diverse is Yonge-Doris?
Immigrants: 64% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 81%. Indigenous identity: 0%.
What religion are people in Yonge-Doris?
42% said they have no religion and 30% that they are Christian; 29% named another faith.
Is Yonge-Doris good for families?
11% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 43% of households and one-parent families 9%. Schools near Yonge-Doris 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).