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The demographics of Toronto, Ontario, Canada make Toronto one of the most multicultural and multiracial cities in the world. In 2021, 57.0 percent of the residents of the metropolitan area belonged to a visible minority group, compared with 51.4 percent in 2016, and 13.6 percent in 1981.
[nb 3] Since the establishment of the Canadian state, English and French have been the co-official languages and are, by far, the most-spoken languages in the country. According to the 2016 census, English and French are the mother tongues of 56.0% and 21.4% of Canadians respectively. [4]
Greek is the 20th most commonly spoken language in the Toronto CMA, with 41,225 people (0.7% of the population) speaking Greek [3] (2016 Census). In the City of Toronto per se , Greek is the 17th most common ethnic origin , being claimed by 57,425 people (2.1% of the population), as per 2016 Census.
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. [3] Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
This is a list of francophone communities in Ontario. Municipalities with a high percentage of French -speakers in the Canadian province of Ontario are listed. The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021.
The Italian language in Canada has been widespread since the 19th century, particularly due to Italian emigration.According to the 2021 Census of Canada, 1,546,390 Canadians (4.3% of the total population) claimed full or partial Italian ancestry, [1] and Italian is the ninth most widely spoken language in Canada with 547,655 speakers, as well as 319,505 mother tongue speakers. [2]
Languages; Canadian English • ... [52] [b] In addition, Punjabi is the third most spoken language of the Parliament of Canada. [53] ... Toronto: Ontario: 318,135 5. ...
Because the city is also home to many other languages, municipal services, most notably its 9-1-1 emergency telephone service, [d] is equipped to respond in over 150 languages. [163] [164] In the 2001 Canadian census, the collective varieties of Chinese and Italian are the most widely spoken languages at work after English.