Juan_Lennon416
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The welcome sign on the Toronto-Pickering border says 2.7 M
The welcome sign on the Toronto-Pickering border says 2.7 M
I figured population growth is the 'demand' side of the supply/demand equation that keeps home/condo prices rising. If the demand side starts decreasing don't real estate prices too?
I'm confused about the real population of the City of Metro Toronto. I'm not talking about the GTA, I'm talking about just Metro Toronto. Since I was 7 year old kid driving in to the Metro Toronto I've always seen the population say 2.5 million. Today 30 years later I see that new signs have been put up still saying 2.5 million. Has Metro Toronto not grown in population at all in 30 years?! I can't believe Metro Toronto isn't any bigger? Go on Wikipedia and it says 2.5 million. Am I missing something?
That would mean Toronto's population has grown about 10% from 2006 when it stood at approx 2,503,000. So how is it if we are to believe all these figures being thrown around that from 2001 to 2006 it grew less than 1% yet 5 years later grew 10%. Is this possible?The population of the City of Toronto in 2011 was 2,760,000.
The province has all the stats you need on it's website. It provides updates not only on the province as a hole but also breaks it down to census divisions. The City of Toronto is a census division so you get the entire population. On the other hand you have individual cities like Miss or London which are not provided but rather the entire census division which is Miss case is the Regional Municipality or Peel or in London's case Middlesex County. You have to do a little math with those figure ie......Middlesex County has 460,000 with 75,000 {as their county website states} in the county itself so London is now at about 385,000. I know what you mean about the population signs which use to be updated every year, London's still sits at 352,000.
Just go to the www.ontario.ca website, go down the left hand side to Explore Government and then go down it's left hand side the Ministry of Finance and then down it's lefthand side to Demographics, There are a number of choices but go the Population projection site and get all the info you need. At the bottom of the page is the PDF download option and go to the one for Census Divisions.
It's a wealth of information but is a little hard to find if you don't know about it as most would not guess to look under the Ministry of Finance. Hope that helps.
According to MMAH Toronto was 2,773,000 in 2010. That's up 2.8% from five years earlier. So I'd guess 2.85 million in the census.
Five year growth rates elsewhere in the region:
Durham R 6.2%
Peel R 11.6%
York R 15.6%
Halton R 15.1%
Niagara R 2.2%
Waterloo R 9.2%
Yes, households in Toronto are getting smaller. Just 17% of Toronto's population are children, compared to over 30% in Peel. Time to close some wading pools?
I believe that there will be sufficient demand in the new condos being built in the downtown city core. What we need to improve upon is the infrastructure for people commuting into the city. I am not surprised in the least that the 905 suburbs will/have experienced significant growth over the past decade. It's inevitable that we'd grow out then up. The inflow of people to the city core far outweighs the outflow of people travelling out of the city for work, especially with many large companies having a renewed interest in establishing their mainstay in Toronto versus in the suburbs. Toronto is a fairly transient city and as long as the economy is healthy, which it is for the most part, people will come and situate themselves in both the suburbs and the city core.