Immigration Trends in Toronto East

Immigration Trends in Toronto East

Toronto East LIP- Fact Sheet I
Immigrants:

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  Toronto East¹ is home to more than 61,000 immigrants. This represented 41% of the population in 2006.
  
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  From 2001 to 2006, the overall number of immigrants in Toronto East declined at a higher rate than the general population.
  
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  Almost half of all immigrants in Toronto East have lived in Canada for less than 15 years.
  
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  The immigrant population is highly concentrated in four Toronto East clusters- Broadview-East York, Central Riverdale, Crescent Town and Massey Creek/O’Connor-Parkview.
  

Newcomers:

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  266,639 newcomers² arrived in Toronto between 2001 and 2006 and 5 % or 13,311 of them settled in Toronto East.
  
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  The percentage of newcomers among immigrants is the same in Toronto and Toronto East: 21.6 percent.
  
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  In 2006, newcomers represented 8.8 % of the population in Toronto East.
  

	Broadview East York	Central Riverdale	Crescent Town	Massey Creek	Rest of Toronto East
Residents	20,255	13,310	19,621	12,630	85,614
Total Immigrants	9,435	6,150	11,340	5,450	29,400
Newcomers	2,020	1,385	4,310	1,745	3,851

Table 1- Newcomers and Total Immigrants, Census 2006of a imrants to Tonto East a years.

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  These four clusters represent 43.5% of Toronto East’s population and 70.9% of newcomers. In other words, these are important settlement communities. Within these clusters, one in every seven individuals is a newcomer, however, in the rest of Toronto East, it is one in twenty-two.
  

Chart 1- Distribution of all Toronto East Immigrants, 2006


Chart 2- Distribution of all Toronto East Newcomers, 2006

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  The top regions of origin for newcomers settling in Toronto East are:
  

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  Southern Asia i.e. India, Pakistan (35%)
  
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  Eastern Asia i.e. China, Japan (22%)
  
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  Europe (19%)
  
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  Southeast Asia i.e. Cambodia (8%)
  
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  Middle East and West Asia i.e. Iraq (7%)
  
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  Africa (4%)
  

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1 The Toronto East borders are Victoria Park in East, Lake Ontario in South, Don River in West and O’Connor Drive in North.

2 Newcomer is used to mean Recent Immigrants (settled in Canada within previous 5 years).