Greater Toronto Area Communities

Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods and the Greater Toronto Area is a place of interconnected regions and communities.  On this page you will find an interactive map with links to each of the five regions in the GTA (including Toronto, Durham, Halton, Peel and York), the twenty-four communities in the regions around Toronto and the forty-four wards that make up the city of Toronto. The city is further divided into one hundred and forty neighbourhoods, each having a distinct character and demographic profile.

The entire GTA is a magnet for people from all around the world. This diaspora of people and nations have made Toronto’s neighbourhoods rich in their diversity and culture. On this page you will find a link to many of these cultural groups.

 

Interactive Map of the GTA

Click on one of the regions to find more resources

for each of the communites of that region.

City of TorontoHalton RegionPeel RegionYork RegionDurham Region

 

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About Your community: the Greater Toronto Area

Total Population:                  

 

5 million

 Population Characteristics 
City of TorontoHalton RegionPeel RegionYork RegionDurham RegionNumber of People:
 Not a visible minority  2,898,005
 South Asian (For example, East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, etc.)
 684,070
 Chinese 
 486,330
 Black 
 352,220
 Filipino  
 171,980
 Latin American 
  99,295
 Southeast Asian
(For example, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Malaysian, Laotian, etc.) 
 70,215
 West Asian (For example, Iranian, Afghan, etc.)  
 75,475
 Korean  55,265
 Arab
 53,430
Japanese  19,010
Visible minority, n.i.e. 
46,705
Multiple visible minority
60,075

n.i.e.: (The abbreviation 'n.i.e.' means 'not included elsewhere.' Includes respondents who reported a write-in response such as 'Guyanese,' 'West Indian,' 'Kurd,' 'Tibetan,' 'Polynesian,' 'Pacific Islander,' etc.)     
Multiple visible minority (Includes respondents who reported more than one visible minority group by checking two or more mark-in circles, e.g., 'Black' and 'South Asian.')

Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population.