Ward Profiles
One table, all 25 wards, built strictly from cited public datasets — no estimates, no interpolation, and no ward gets a number it doesn’t actually have on record.
Looking for the 2026 race itself? See the election math for each ward — the 2022 baseline margin and the 2026 filed-candidate list, one card per ward.
What this page is, right now
This page carries two layers now. The first is the original honest v1: a single summary table covering all 25 wards, drawn from the City of Toronto’s own Ward Profiles dataset — a citywide picture broken out by ward. The second, added 2026-08-06, is 25 individual ward pages — one per council ward, each carrying a one-minute summary, the 2022 election result, who’s registered to run in 2026, and the same census figures as the table below. Of the three joins that fuller version needed (candidate lists to wards, facility locations to ward boundaries, individual research claims to specific wards), the candidate-list join was already built and released before this page was updated, and is what makes the per-ward pages possible. The other two remain honestly incomplete — see “What we don’t have yet,” below, for exactly what and why, and each ward’s own page says so on its face rather than padding the gap.
Sources
- Ward boundaries and names: City of Toronto, 25 Ward Model (in force since December 2018) — ward numbers and names, and per-ward land area, from the City’s Ward Profiles geographic-areas file, published December 2023.
- Population and social/economic figures: City of Toronto Ward Profiles (25-Ward Model), Statistics Canada 2021 Census custom tabulations, prepared by Strategic Initiatives, Policy & Analysis, City Planning Division, City of Toronto, December 2023. Income figures reflect 2020 (the reference year used by the 2021 Census).
Both datasets are published as open data by the City of Toronto. Full file-level provenance (fetch dates, checksums) is on record in this project’s research files and available on request via the corrections channel below.
The 25 wards, in numbers
All figures as of the 2021 Census (income figures: 2020 reference year); land area as of December 2023. Every column here is a real reported value — no ward row has an estimated or interpolated figure.
| Ward | Name | Area (km²) | Population | Median age | Unemployment | Median household income (2020) |
Avg. monthly shelter, renters | Avg. monthly shelter, owners |
Renters spending 30%+ on shelter | Owners spending 30%+ on shelter |
Low-income prevalence (LIM-AT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Etobicoke North | 48.4 | 115,120 | 38 | 16.5% | $81,000 | $1,328 | $1,664 | 34.2% | 23.5% | 12.9% |
| 2 | Etobicoke Centre | 37.3 | 117,200 | 45.2 | 12.8% | $100,000 | $1,574 | $1,930 | 39.2% | 18.8% | 7.9% |
| 3 | Etobicoke-Lakeshore | 40.0 | 139,920 | 40.8 | 11.8% | $90,000 | $1,592 | $2,108 | 40.9% | 24.7% | 11% |
| 4 | Parkdale-High Park | 15.3 | 104,715 | 40 | 12.9% | $85,000 | $1,492 | $2,280 | 39.7% | 20.3% | 12% |
| 5 | York South-Weston | 25.0 | 115,675 | 40.4 | 16.4% | $72,000 | $1,196 | $1,660 | 34.8% | 22.3% | 14.7% |
| 6 | York Centre | 35.4 | 107,355 | 41.6 | 14.1% | $82,000 | $1,448 | $1,918 | 36.1% | 25.3% | 11.5% |
| 7 | Humber River-Black Creek | 30.7 | 111,200 | 37.6 | 17.8% | $73,000 | $1,261 | $1,622 | 33.2% | 24% | 15.1% |
| 8 | Eglinton-Lawrence | 22.7 | 114,820 | 41.2 | 12.2% | $97,000 | $1,588 | $2,418 | 38% | 20.3% | 10.1% |
| 9 | Davenport | 12.1 | 104,730 | 38.4 | 13.1% | $85,000 | $1,552 | $1,910 | 41.3% | 21.6% | 10.8% |
| 10 | Spadina-Fort York | 12.8 | 135,400 | 32.8 | 9.8% | $89,000 | $1,988 | $2,290 | 43.7% | 35.2% | 14.1% |
| 11 | University-Rosedale | 13.6 | 102,385 | 36.8 | 12.8% | $84,000 | $1,976 | $2,592 | 48.8% | 29.8% | 15.3% |
| 12 | Toronto-St. Paul’s | 13.1 | 114,095 | 39.6 | 10.9% | $86,000 | $1,768 | $2,492 | 44.6% | 24.8% | 12.5% |
| 13 | Toronto Centre | 5.9 | 116,930 | 34.8 | 15.1% | $65,000 | $1,520 | $2,172 | 43.1% | 35.1% | 22.2% |
| 14 | Toronto-Danforth | 20.8 | 104,555 | 40.8 | 12.5% | $93,000 | $1,424 | $2,138 | 37.8% | 18.2% | 11.5% |
| 15 | Don Valley West | 30.3 | 101,025 | 41.2 | 12.1% | $102,000 | $1,716 | $2,968 | 40.9% | 21.8% | 12.6% |
| 16 | Don Valley East | 23.0 | 94,335 | 41.2 | 15.1% | $78,500 | $1,492 | $1,846 | 39.1% | 26.1% | 14.4% |
| 17 | Don Valley North | 24.4 | 112,590 | 40.4 | 14.4% | $84,000 | $1,754 | $1,904 | 43.6% | 31.4% | 14.4% |
| 18 | Willowdale | 19.8 | 117,130 | 39.2 | 12.7% | $81,000 | $1,880 | $2,202 | 49.3% | 37.6% | 17.8% |
| 19 | Beaches-East York | 16.8 | 108,500 | 41.2 | 13.4% | $89,000 | $1,370 | $2,168 | 38.6% | 18.3% | 11.9% |
| 20 | Scarborough Southwest | 28.1 | 110,095 | 40.8 | 16.4% | $79,000 | $1,196 | $1,872 | 32.3% | 22.7% | 13.9% |
| 21 | Scarborough Centre | 28.2 | 111,560 | 40 | 15.7% | $78,000 | $1,338 | $1,668 | 35.8% | 26% | 13.3% |
| 22 | Scarborough-Agincourt | 21.4 | 103,690 | 45.2 | 16.4% | $77,000 | $1,358 | $1,640 | 36% | 32% | 14.7% |
| 23 | Scarborough North | 30.4 | 94,025 | 42.8 | 17% | $87,000 | $1,408 | $1,636 | 33.3% | 28.8% | 11.8% |
| 24 | Scarborough-Guildwood | 26.1 | 102,755 | 38.4 | 16.3% | $78,000 | $1,197 | $1,776 | 31.6% | 25.4% | 14.7% |
| 25 | Scarborough-Rouge Park | 54.1 | 101,485 | 42 | 15% | $105,000 | $1,362 | $1,802 | 32.7% | 20.7% | 7.8% |
| — | City of Toronto (all 25 wards) | — | 2,761,285 | 39.6 | 13.9% | $84,000 | $1,562 | $2,038 | 40% | 25.6% | 13.2% |
“Renters/owners spending 30%+ on shelter” is Statistics Canada’s standard shelter-cost-burden threshold, applied to tenant and owner households separately. “Low-income prevalence (LIM-AT)” is the share of the population below Statistics Canada’s Low-Income Measure, after tax. City of Toronto totals are the citywide figures as published in the same dataset, not a sum of the ward rows.
What we don’t have yet
Named plainly, because the gap is honest and expected at this stage, not a defect:
- No per-ward breakdown of which library branches, community/recreation centres, or parks sit in which ward, on this table or on any of the 25 ward pages. The City publishes those facility locations and a separate ward-boundary file; joining the two (assigning each facility to a ward) is a geospatial step that hasn’t been run yet.
- Ward-specific civic-issue research is limited to one ward so far. A full scan of this project’s verified research claims for any that name a specific ward by number found exactly two, both about Ward 23’s inclusion in the June 2025 fiveplex/sixplex zoning pilot — visible on Ward 23’s own page. The other 24 wards honestly show no ward-specific research yet, not a padded placeholder.
- The full 2021 Census ward-profile dataset covers far more than the columns shown here or on the ward pages (dwelling types, household composition, education, industry and occupation, immigration, Indigenous identity, and more). Both this table and the ward pages are a curated summary, not the whole dataset — later versions may add more of it.
- Ward-specific advance-voting-place locations for 2026 aren’t published by the City yet — a citywide publication gap, not something specific to this project. Each ward page says so and links to the full how-to-vote guide for what is known.
What this page grows into
25 individual ward pages now exist — each carrying a one-minute plain-language summary, the 2022 election result for that ward, who’s registered to run there in 2026, the same census figures as the table above, and, only where a real ward-specific receipt exists, how that ward connects to this project’s broader civic-issue research. Still to come: the libraries, community centres, and parks physically in each ward, once the facility-to-ward geospatial join is built, and more of the 12 civic-issue categories as this project’s research names more wards by name. Nothing on that list gets built by guessing — each piece waits for its underlying data to actually be joined to ward boundaries, and every ward page names its own gaps rather than padding them.
See something wrong, or have a better source for any figure above? Tell us — corrections & improvements.