Neighbourhoods in Toronto
What different parts of Toronto are like to live in — character, transport, green spaces, housing and honest trade-offs.
How Toronto is organised
Toronto is described here by its districts and the localities inside them. This page currently covers 0 districts and 9 localities.
There is no “best neighbourhood”: what suits you depends on your work, budget, family and lifestyle. We describe places — we do not score them.
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Larger pins are districts, smaller ones localities. Every place is also listed below.
Map of neighbourhoods in Toronto
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Photo: SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) Leslieville
An east-end neighbourhood east of the Don River, centred on Queen Street East, with small houses on residential side streets, converted factories and film studios, served by streetcars and, in future, two Ontario Line stations.
Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) Liberty Village
A former industrial district west of downtown, between King Street West and the Gardiner Expressway, transformed since the early 2000s into a dense area of condominium towers, converted factory lofts and offices, served by the 504 King streetcar and Exhibition GO station.
Photo: PFHLai, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) North York City Centre
A high-density district of condominium and office towers along Yonge Street between Sheppard and Finch avenues, built as the downtown of the former City of North York, with three Line 1 stations, Line 4 Sheppard and Mel Lastman Square.
Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) Roncesvalles
A residential west-end neighbourhood between High Park and Lansdowne Avenue, centred on Roncesvalles Avenue's small shops, known as a centre of Toronto's Polish community, with several streetcar lines and Line 2 stations to the north.
Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) Scarborough City Centre
The civic and commercial heart of Scarborough around Scarborough Town Centre and the Civic Centre, with condominium towers, offices and a regional bus terminal; since Line 3 closed in 2023 it is linked to the subway by express buses on a new busway.
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) St. Lawrence
A downtown neighbourhood east of Yonge Street, planned in the 1970s as a mixed-income community of low-rise apartments and rowhouses around David Crombie Park, with St. Lawrence Market, Union station and the King streetcar close by.
Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) The Annex
A leafy, mostly residential Midtown neighbourhood of Victorian and Edwardian brick houses next to the University of Toronto's St. George campus, with Bloor Street West as its main street and four subway stations on Lines 1 and 2.
Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) The Danforth (Greektown)
The neighbourhood along Danforth Avenue in east Toronto, historically the centre of the city's Greek community, with a long main street of restaurants and shops, residential side streets and several stations on Line 2 Bloor-Danforth.
Photo: Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon), CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) Yonge-Eglinton
The centre of Midtown Toronto around the intersection of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue: an office and shopping hub surrounded by residential streets, with an interchange between subway Line 1 and the new Line 5 Eglinton light rail, opened in February 2026.