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Oct 16, 2018 26 tweets 12 min read Read on X
1. Maps and charts!

I posted this a little while back, based on data from the City's new 25-ward census profiles.

Let's pull it apart...
2. Reminder: this is based on counts of dwelling units, not of population in dwelling units.

First, StatCan definitions of structural type:
3. Single Detached Houses.

Share of occupied dwelling units in this type ranges from 54.8% (Ward 25) to 0.4% (Ward 13).

Only 3 wards >40%.
4. Single detached houses as a share of total occupied private dwellings, mapped:
5. Semi-detached Houses.

Most common in Ward 7 (20.4% of dwelling units) and Ward 14 (20.0%).

Very different parts of town, though!
6. Two examples each of semi-detached houses as found in Ward 7 and in Ward 14.
7. Semi-detached houses as a share of total occupied private dwellings, mapped:
8. Row Houses.

Constitute the highest share of the total dwelling units in Ward 23 (15.6%), Ward 25 (14.2%), and Ward 22 (11.9%).
9. Row houses as a share of total occupied private dwellings, mapped. Highest share in northeast/west.
10. Examples (from Ward 25) of the townhouse complexes that contribute to those row home counts in parts of Scarborough & Etobicoke.
11. Dwelling units in a duplex.

As a share of total occupied dwelling units, highest in Ward 1 (10.4%), Ward 21 (9.9%), and Ward 25 (8.7%).
12. Duplex units as a share of total dwelling units. Highest in Scarborough, Davenport & NW Etobicoke. Would like to dig in to this further.
13. Dwelling units in apartments under five stories.

41.6% of total dwelling units in Ward 9, and 20%-30% in much of the old City of TO.
14. This type's the closest proxy for #MissingMiddle. Includes main street walk-ups, apartments over shops, triplexes/quadplexes/6-plexes...
15. ...and, of course, my favourite: neighbourhood-scale walk-ups on residential side streets.
16. Dwelling units in apartments under 5 storeys, mapped. Most prevalent in Davenport & old City of TO, but also significant elsewhere...
17. They represent 18.1% of total occupied dwelling units in Etobicoke-Lakeshore (Ward 3).

Think walk-ups along Lake Shore Blvd West...
18 ...and a concentration of post-war walk-ups can be found in parts of North York, notably to the west of the Bathurst corridor.
19. Dwelling units in apartments 5 or more storeys. High rise.

Represents more than 80% of total dwelling units in wards 10 and 13...
20. But what's interesting is that across the inner suburbs, in all but a few wards, 30%-50% of dwelling units are in high rise apartments.
21. As Toronto was going through its post-war expansion, we built a LOT of 5+ storey apartment buildings/units, particularly in the 1960s.
22. (we also didn't connect those tower neighbourhoods very well, a legacy we now strive to rectify)
23. ...this character - suburban tower clusters surrounded by expansive low-rise n'hoods - makes it hard to describe TO using avg densities.
24. Two sides of a coin.
A wide swathe of the city where 30-40% of dwelling units are single-detached, and 40% are 5+ storey apartments.
25. a swathe of suburbs built out during a few decades of rapid growth. Different than the core, but each also different than the others.
26. It's fascinating. A city of grown-together cities. Local differences partly revealing past politics, plans, economics, infrastructure...

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