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The Ultimate Neighbourhood Rankings
Everybody knows that Toronto is one of the best places in the world to live. But where’s the best place to live in Toronto? To figure that out, we ranked all of the city’s neighbourhoods, measuring everything from housing to transit to diversity. Click the button below to see our list, or pick your own priorities to generate a custom ranking suited to your needs.
The Ultimate Neighbourhood Rankings
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Below is how we weighted our criteria. Generate your own ranking by adjusting the sliders to suit your preferences.
We scored each neighbourhood out of 100, weighting the criteria as follows:
- Housing (15%): affordability (cost versus income), average primary real estate value and rate of home ownership
- Community (12%): voter turnout numbers, access to community space (such as libraries and parks), outward migration and how many people report a sense of community belonging
- Safety (12%): rates of all types of crimes
- Shopping (10%): proximity to groceries, markets and pharmacies
- Diversity (9%): people whose mother tongues are not French or English as well as first- and second-generation household population
- Education (9%): number of schools per 1,000 children, proximity to child care and share of residents with post-secondary education
- Health (9%): proximity to health care, including medical services, mental health services and senior care, as well as physical activity levels among residents
- Employment (8%): unemployment rates, share of residents below the poverty line and share of high-income residents
- Entertainment (8%): number of bars and restaurants per capita and number of residents who attend cultural, sports and entertainment events
- Transit (8%): proximity to transit, average commuting distance and number of commuters who walk, cycle, drive or take the TTC
All the data used for each ranking category were sourced from Environics Analytics (EA), Open Data Toronto (City of Toronto) and Statistics Canada. EA’s small-area statistical databases are completely developed using fully privacy-compliant sources and methods. EA compiled this data and computed the ranking scores for the 158 neighbourhoods. For further inquiries regarding this data, please contact [email protected]. Additional data sources that were used for some of the complementary insights (not the rankings) include the Toronto Real Estate Board, the Government of Ontario, the City of Toronto, Statistics Canada and Zoocasa.
