DEMOGRAPHICS
The city of Toronto (population 2,808,507*) refers to the former Metropolitan Toronto, which consisted of the former municipalities of Toronto, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York and the Borough of East York.
The Toronto Region (population 6,055,724*) refers to the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), an area slightly smaller than the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and the largest metropolitan area in Canada. Almost half the population of the Toronto Region resides in the city of Toronto.
The Greater Toronto Area or GTA (population 6,546,519**) refers to the area covered by the city of Toronto and the Regions of Halton, Peel, York, and Durham. The GTHA refers the GTA plus Hamilton.
> Almost 1 in 5 (18.1%) Canadians live in the GTA.
> 42.9% of the Region’s population lives in Toronto.
> Toronto Region’s proportion of seniors increased 24.8% between 2001 and 2014.
> 14.76% of the Toronto population is seniors.
> The number of seniors will grow from 1 in 7 Canadians now to about 1 in 4 by 2036.
> 22% of Torontonians 55 and older live alone, and 44% of those 85 and older live alone.
> 1 of every 6 immigrants to Canada in the 5 years before the last census settled in Toronto.
> 51% of Toronto residents were born outside of Canada.
> Although immigration has been one of the main sources of Toronto’s growth, its share as a source of population growth declined 19% between 2011 and 2013.