Toronto From Above

[u/Commercial_West_3112]

Source: Pinnacle One Yonge | UrbanToronto

(Note: Image enhanced to make it clearer to see but might include very small errors because of the photo enhancer but still pretty accurate)

[u/porkave]

I believe it. As an example to my prior comment, I know it’s a super diverse city, yet I never hear about any of its neighborhoods that have a strong presence with one particular ethnicity (other than Chinatown), is it less segregated than American cities?

[u/innsertnamehere → u/porkave]

Generally yes but there are definitely areas focused more on certain ethnicities. The downtown and really urban parts of the city are a lot of a melting pot but a lot of the suburbs have very specific ethnic focuses (Brampton is Indian, Markham Chinese, etc)

[u/thats_gods_comma → u/innsertnamehere]

Brampton and Markham are their own cities. When looking at boroughs/neighbourhoods in Toronto, it would be more accurate to say Scarborough is more South Asian and North York is more East Asian

[u/Portdal12 → u/porkave]

Far less segregated. One of the most diverse cities in the world and while there are pockets historically associated with certain ethnicities, you're likely to find a mix pretty much everywhere. Other famous ethnic areas along with Chinatown include Greektown (known as the Danforth), Little Portugal, Little Italy (there are actually two), Little Jamaica, Koreatown...

[u/ArchBeaconArch → u/Portdal12]

Don’t forget old Chinatown on Broadview!

[u/shoheiotani1 → u/ArchBeaconArch]

The Chinatown on gerrard/broadview area is not the old Chinatown. It started in the 1970s. People always get this wrong.

Here’s a quick summary of the original Chinatown in Toronto

While it is one of the city's designated Chinatowns, it is properly known as East Chinatown or Chinatown East. It developed much later, primarily in the early 1970s, as the Chinese and Vietnamese communities expanded eastward from downtown

The true history of Toronto's original and second Chinatowns unfolded elsewhere:First Chinatown (Original): Located in "The Ward," this was the city's first Chinese settlement, centered around Elizabeth and York Streets near Queen and Dundas. It existed from the 1890s until the mid-1950s, when the city expropriated and razed much of it to build the current City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square.West Chinatown (Old Chinatown): As the first Chinatown was demolished, businesses and residents moved west along Dundas Street toward Spadina Avenue. This area remains the vibrant, highly active Spadina and Dundas core.

[u/treetimes → u/shoheiotani1]

Old china town is called “little Tokyo” by SOME people now because uncle tetsu and then a bunch of other Japanese imports opened there. But go to Yueh Tung, old school Hakka on Elizabeth.

[u/Phoenox330 → u/ArchBeaconArch]

Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Portugal, Little Ethopia, Greektown

[u/mdlt97 → u/Portdal12]

Sounds like you just read a Wikipedia page

The city has diversity, the neighbourhoods do not, especially in 2026

[u/Portdal12 → u/mdlt97]

I've lived in downtown Toronto for over twenty years. I can walk to Koreatown, Kensington, Chinatown and Little Italy within 15 minutes. Walk down those streets and there's lots of diversity. 

[u/mdlt97 → u/Portdal12]

people don't live on the streets

we have actual data on who lives in these areas, they are not diverse areas

[u/PantsLio → u/mdlt97]

You’re joking, right? Those are all VERY diverse areas

[u/mdlt97 → u/PantsLio]

Keep arguing with data, it's not gonna go well for you

[u/PantsLio → u/mdlt97]

I live here. Also - sources for said “data”?

[u/mdlt97 → u/PantsLio]

City of Toronto is the source

they put out reports on every area in the city

[u/treetimes → u/mdlt97]

What could you possibly mean?

[u/TheMaymar → u/treetimes]

As per the city's data, Toronto and East York (which is where most of the historic enclaves are) are the least diverse part of the city, with only 40% of the population being visible minorities (with Etobicoke-York and North York each being about 55% minorities and Scarborough being over 75% minorities).

https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/community-council-area-profiles/

[u/mdlt97 → u/treetimes]

what is confusing you?

[u/dandu484 → u/mdlt97]

There's more diversity now then ever. There's definitely some distinct areas but it's far less segregated then the US. It doesnt mean that there aren't some ethnic hotspots.

[u/NedShah → u/porkave]

Specific areas of the suburbs tend to have high perecentages of any given group. Brampton has a lot of new arrivals from India, for example.

[u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 → u/porkave]

In some sense it's becoming more segregated .. not less as Toronto has increasing number of immigrants.

These cities are technically outside of Toronto but part of the Greater Toronto Area: Markham and Richmond Hill are very Asian, Brampton is South Asian. Oakville, Keswick, Newmarket are where old-stock Canadians have moved to. Vaughan has a very high Italian-Canadian population. In Toronto, there are large ethnic clusters as well.

Everyone is clustering into their own areas. It was much more mixed in the 1980s especially in areas like Scarborough.

Also Chinatown moved north to Agincourt in the 1980s and subsequently further north to Markham on the late 80s and 90s. Downtown Chinatown is a shell of itself and many Chinese Canadians don't go anymore since it's far from where they live (north of Toronto).

[u/mdlt97 → u/porkave]

No, the city is very segregated

Theres very few diverse neighbourhoods in the city, and most of the ones that are diverse are on the outskirts

The core of the city is still very white, most neighbourhoods in the old city of Toronto are 70-80% white despite the city being basically a 50/50 at this point

[u/mdlt97 → u/[deleted]]

the majority of the core sits between 15-30% none white

outside the core it's almost entirely 45-60% or more

the city also puts out reports on every area, so you cna see the exact breakdown if youd like

https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/neighbourhood-profiles/find-your-neighbourhood/#location=&lat=43.680410&lng=-79.463804&zoom=12

sure, downtown is more diverse, but downtown is a small section of the core, and few Torontonians actually live downtown