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The GTA could be a lot more crowded in 2025

By Steve Kupferman

| September 25, 2014

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6,682,061 —Bloomberg’s estimate of the number of people who will live in the Greater Toronto Area in 2025. A population that size, according to Bloomberg, would give the GTA a greater population density, per square mile, than New York City’s metropolitan area. The Toronto area’s population as of the 2011 census was only 5,583,064.

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