Toronto residents choose apartments over houses
Nearly one in three homes are in highrise buildings
OTTAWA— Single-detached houses remain Canadians’ choice of dwelling, but in Toronto, the apartment reigns.
New data from the 2016 census shows that apartments (44 per cent) outnumber single-detached houses (40 per cent) as home for Toronto residents. And Toronto had the most dwellings in highrise apartment buildings — nearly one in three — of major cities across the country, Statistics Canada said Wednesday as it released additional census data.
The single-detached house ac- counted for 53.6 per cent, or 7.5 million of the 14.1 million private occupied dwellings in Canada, a share that’s been declining since the early 1980s. Other housing included: 18 per cent apartments in buildings with fewer than five storeys.
9.9 per cent apartments in buildings with five or more storeys. 6.3 per cent row housing. 5.6 per cent apartments or flats in a duplex. 5 per cent semi-detached houses. 1.3 per cent movable dwellings. Across the Greater Toronto Area, there were 2,135,910 private dwell- ings. Of those, 39.6 per cent were single-detached houses; 29.4 per cent were in apartment buildings with five or more storeys; 10 per cent were in apartment buildings with fewer than five storeys; 4.2 per cent were flats in a duplex; and 16.8 per cent were listed as “other” dwellings.
Across Ontario, there were 5,169,175 private dwellings. Of those, 54.3 per cent were single-detached houses; 17.2 per cent were in apartment buildings with five or more storeys; 10.1 per cent were in apartment buildings with fewer than five storeys and 3.4 per cent were flats in a duplex.