A CANADIAN MOSAIC

Flemingdon Park housed 22,168 people as of 2011. It is one of Toronto’s most diverse and immigrantheavy neighbourhoods.

32 per cent of residents were born in Canada, compared with a Toronto average of 49 per cent. The top-five countries of origin for the neighbourhood are India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Philippines.

68 per cent of people have a nonofficial language as their mother tongue, while 51 per cent speak a nonofficial language at home. The most popular of these are Urdu, Farsi, Tamil, Gujarati (a language spoken in India) and Tagalog.

77 per cent of people in Flemingdon Park belong to visible minority groups. In Toronto, that number is is 49 per cent.

The community has three public schools, one middle school and one high school. There is also the Flemingdon Public Library and ample green space since the community is nestled against the ravines of the Don River system.

Consisting of more than 25 residential towers built in the sixties and seventies, 83 per cent of private dwellings in the neighbourhood are in towers with five or more storeys. Zero per cent of the neighbourhood is made up of singlefamily housing units.

$50,605 is the average household income in Flemingdon Park, 29 per cent lower than the citywide average. Moreover, 30 per cent of residents are considered low-income, versus the Toronto rate of 19 per cent.

The crime rate for Flemingdon Park sits at around the middle of the pack when compared with Toronto’s other 139 neighbourhoods. However, Flemingdon Park ranked fourth in the city for thefts over $5,000 and 23rd for stolen vehicles in 2011, according to police stats.

34 per cent of residents are 24 years old or under, meaning the neighbourhood has a larger proportion of youth than the city overall. Sources: Statistics Canada, City of Toronto, Toronto Police Service