Urban village · East End, Toronto
Playter Estates-Danforth
Heritage houses and Danforth Avenue shops, between Broadview and Jones
- Heritage-home lovers
- Young families
- Food lovers
At a glance
A small neighbourhood of Victorian and Edwardian houses on tree-lined streets, with apartments along the Danforth. Owners and renters are about evenly split.
- Median home value (est.)
- $1.35M* * est.: 2021 census, indexed to September 2026 · city $803K
- Residents
- 8,427 Toronto Police estimate for 2025, up from 7,680 at the 2021 census
- Households renting
- 52% city 48%
- Homes that are apartments
- 59% city 61%
What the numbers mean
- Owners valued the median home at $1.51M in the 2021 census. Indexed to September 2026 prices with the Greater Toronto MLS® Home Price Index (-11% since then), that is about $1.35M, 68% above the Toronto median of $803K. It is an estimate: the index tracks the whole region, not this neighbourhood.
- 52% of households rent, close to the 48% city-wide.
- Tenants here paid a median of $1,400 a month in shelter costs (rent plus utilities and fees) in the 2021 census, close to the $1,450 median across Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods. That figure covers all tenants, including long-term ones, so a new lease will cost more.
Who lives here
Share of residents by age, Toronto Police estimate for 2025, up from 7,680 at the 2021 census.
Homes
Share of homes by type, Toronto Police estimate for 2025, up from 7,680 at the 2021 census.
Upfront closing costs1
Toronto buyers pay land transfer tax twice, once to Ontario and once to the City, so the bill is about double Ontario's alone. Government fees at the median home price: This uses the census home value indexed to September 2026 prices, so treat it as an estimate.
- Ontario land transfer tax
- $23,420 on $1.35M
- Toronto municipal land transfer tax
- $23,420 on $1.35M
- Total
- $46,830 3.5% of the price
Household income and housing costs2
What households here earn and how much of it housing takes, 2021 Census.
- Median household income
- $87,000 2020, before tax
- Spend 30%+ on housing
- 29% of owner and tenant households
- Owners' monthly cost
- $1,440 median shelter cost
- Tenants' monthly cost
- $1,400 median shelter cost
Typical apartment rent nearby3
Playter Estates-Danforth sits in CMHC's Toronto (East) survey zone. October 2025 average rent of purpose-built rental apartments in that zone:
- Studio
- $1,213 −$278 vs metro average
- 1 bedroom
- $1,692 −$69 vs metro average
- 2 bedroom
- $1,869 −$176 vs metro average
- 3 bedroom or more
- $1,876 −$418 vs metro average
How it's changing
Toronto doesn't publish building permits by neighbourhood, so we can't chart construction here yet.
Safety4
Reported incidents in 2025 (the latest full year Toronto Police publish by neighbourhood), per 1,000 residents, compared with the median of 158 Toronto neighbourhoods.
- Reported crime
- 26.6 per 1,000 · above the 12.5 median
- Violent crime
- 14.6 per 1,000 · median 7.1
- Property crime
- 12.0 per 1,000 · median 5.5
- Reported crime runs about 2.1× the median Toronto neighbourhood: 26.6 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, versus 12.5.
- The most common reported crime is assault, 53% of the total. 45% of incidents are property crime.
- Reported crime has risen since 2020 (171 to 224 incidents a year).
- Busy main streets, transit and nightlife bring in visitors, and incidents are counted where they happen, not where people live.
Crime per 1,000 residents
What gets reported
Top crime types in the rate, same period.
Other reported incidents
Counted by police but left out of the rate, same period.
- Bicycle theft
- 12
- Theft over $5,000
- 3
- Shootings and firearm discharges
- 1