Toronto is now majority visible minority. What about your neighbourhood?

The Star's interactive map of diversity in the GTA, based on 2016 census data.

Thestar.com
Nov. 8, 2017
By Matthew Cole

More than half of Torontonians - 51.5 per cent - identify as visible minorities, recently released data from Canada's 2016 census shows.

The data shows a marked difference in diversity between the multicultural heartland of the Greater Toronto Area and the rest of the country.

Twenty-nine per cent of Ontarians and 22 per cent of Canadians overall reported being visible minorities, versus a thin majority in the City of Toronto.

The numbers also varied in the Big Smoke. The higher proportions of diversity - more than 50 per cent - were clumped in the inner suburbs of Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke.

What does your community look like?

Search by address or zoom in on your census tract, a geographic area defined by Statistics Canada that typically makes up between 2,500 and 8,000 people.

People who identify as Aboriginal are not counted as a visible minority by Statistics Canada.

In five of the suburban cities around Toronto - Ajax, Mississauga, Richmond Hill, Brampton and Markham - a majority of people identify as visible minorities.

Here's how the numbers break down for Toronto:

• South Asian: 12.59 per cent
• Chinese: 11.13 per cent
• Black: 8.91 per cent
• Filipino: 5.67 per cent
• Latin American: 2.87 per cent
• Arab: 1.34 per cent
• Southeast Asian: 1.55 per cent
• West Asian: 2.24 per cent
• Korean: 1.55 per cent
• Japanese: 0.5 per cent

Visible minorities not included elsewhere: 1.37 per cent

Multiple visible minorities (people who belong to more than one group): 1.77 per cent