ORBIT, your AI partnerToronto · 2021 census
Selling real estate in Toronto: who your clients are.
For a realtor working in Toronto: 1,160,892 households and 2,794,356 people in 2021, up 2.3% since 2016. 51.9% of households own their home, 23.3% of homes are single-detached houses, and after English the languages heard most at home are Mandarin (3.1%) and Cantonese (2.7%).
- People
- 2,794,356
- Households
- 1,160,892
- Since 2016
- +2.3%
- Area codes
- 416647437
01Clients
Owners and renters, in Toronto.
Every household is a future buyer, seller or both. Here is how Toronto's 1,160,892 households live today.
51.9%own their home
48.1%rent
- Median household income, 2020
- CA$84,000
- People in Toronto
- 2,794,356
02Homes
The homes you will list and show.
Apartments, 5 storeys or more make up 46.7% of occupied homes in Toronto, then single-detached houses at 23.3%.
- 46.7%Apartments, 5 storeys or more
- 23.3%Single-detached houses
- 14%Apartments under 5 storeys
- 6.2%Semi-detached houses
- 5.4%Row houses
- 4.1%Flats in a duplex
03Languages
The languages your callers speak.
- English at home
- 66.4%
- French at home
- 0.6%
- Other languages
- 25.7%
ORBIT speaks 100+ languages on calls. It starts in the language you set and switches to the caller's language once they speak a full sentence in it.
Most spoken at home after English and French
- Mandarin3.1%86,150 people
- Cantonese2.7%74,845 people
- Tagalog1.9%51,355 people
- Spanish1.7%46,355 people
- Tamil1.5%40,825 people
- Portuguese1.3%35,625 people
- Persian (Farsi)1%27,100 people
- Korean0.8%23,115 people
04What it means
Four numbers that shape your week in Toronto.
1 in 4
people speak a language other than English or French at home.
Mandarin leads at 3.1%. ORBIT starts each call in the language you set and switches to the caller's language once they speak a full sentence in it.
How ORBIT answers calls48.1%
of households rent.
Today's renters are the first-time buyers of the next few years. Keep each one in a follow-up plan, so the call comes to you when they are ready.
Nurture leads until they are ready60.7%
of homes are in apartment buildings.
Buyers compare many similar units side by side. Give every listing its own page with photos, details and a booking calendar, so it stands on its own.
A page for every listing+2.3%
more people than in 2016.
Steady growth means new families arrive while long-time owners move up or down. A CRM that remembers every conversation keeps both groups close.
The CRM that fills itself
Neighbourhoods
Farming in Toronto? Start with its 158 neighbourhoods.
Every neighbourhood has its own page: households, owners and renters, median home value, when the homes were built and how often people move.
- Agincourt North$800,000
- Agincourt South-Malvern West$750,000
- Alderwood$1,000,000
- Annex$1,500,000
- Avondale$680,000
- Banbury-Don Mills$1,000,000
- Bathurst Manor$1,200,000
- Bay-Cloverhill$760,000
- Bayview Village$750,000
- Bayview Woods-Steeles$1,250,000
- Bedford Park-Nortown$2,260,000
- Beechborough-Greenbrook$900,000
- Bendale South$900,000
- Bendale-Glen Andrew$695,000
- Birchcliffe-Cliffside$1,000,000
- Black Creek$700,000
- Blake-Jones$1,150,000
- Briar Hill-Belgravia$810,000
- Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills$3,000,000
- Broadview North$1,100,000
- Brookhaven-Amesbury$900,000
- Cabbagetown-South St. James Town$950,000
- Caledonia-Fairbank$950,000
- Casa Loma$2,000,000
- Centennial Scarborough$1,000,000
- Church-Wellesley$750,000
- Clairlea-Birchmount$900,000
- Clanton Park$1,100,000
- Cliffcrest$1,000,000
- Corso Italia-Davenport$1,000,000
- Danforth$1,200,000
- Danforth-East York$1,000,000
- Don Valley Village$850,000
- Dorset Park$700,000
- Dovercourt Village$1,200,000
- Downsview$900,000
- Downtown Yonge East$750,000
- Dufferin Grove$1,000,000
- East End Danforth$1,000,000
- East L'Amoreaux$700,000
- East Willowdale$2,000,000
- Edenbridge-Humber Valley$1,700,000
- Eglinton East$700,000
- Elms-Old Rexdale$755,000
- Englemount-Lawrence$1,000,000
- Eringate-Centennial-West Deane$990,000
- Etobicoke City Centre$600,000
- Etobicoke West Mall$600,000
- Fenside-Parkwoods$800,000
- Flemingdon Park$500,000
- Forest Hill North$2,100,000
- Forest Hill South$3,000,000
- Fort York-Liberty Village$695,000
- Glenfield-Jane Heights$800,000
- Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn$870,000
- Greenwood-Coxwell$1,000,000
- Guildwood$900,000
- Harbourfront-CityPlace$700,000
- Henry Farm$600,000
- High Park North$1,300,000
- High Park-Swansea$1,200,000
- Highland Creek$1,000,000
- Hillcrest Village$900,000
- Humber Bay Shores$670,000
- Humber Heights-Westmount$1,000,000
- Humber Summit$850,000
- Humbermede$800,000
- Humewood-Cedarvale$1,740,000
- Ionview$800,000
- Islington$1,100,000
- Junction Area$1,000,000
- Junction-Wallace Emerson$1,000,000
- Keelesdale-Eglinton West$850,000
- Kennedy Park$750,000
- Kensington-Chinatown$850,000
- Kingsview Village-The Westway$850,000
- Kingsway South$2,000,000
- L'Amoreaux West$800,000
- Lambton Baby Point$1,450,000
- Lansing-Westgate$1,500,000
- Lawrence Park North$1,800,000
- Lawrence Park South$2,200,000
- Leaside-Bennington$2,000,000
- Little Portugal$1,000,000
- Long Branch$1,000,000
- Malvern East$675,000
- Malvern West$700,000
- Maple Leaf$1,000,000
- Markland Wood$900,000
- Milliken$850,000
- Mimico-Queensway$1,000,000
- Morningside$800,000
- Morningside Heights$900,000
- Moss Park$700,000
- Mount Dennis$650,000
- Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown$600,000
- Mount Pleasant East$1,510,000
- New Toronto$950,000
- Newtonbrook East$1,500,000
- Newtonbrook West$1,000,000
- North Riverdale$1,510,000
- North St. James Town$750,000
- North Toronto$700,000
- O`Connor Parkview$1,000,000
- Oakdale-Beverley Heights$940,000
- Oakridge$800,000
- Oakwood Village$1,000,000
- Old East York$1,200,000
- Palmerston-Little Italy$1,500,000
- Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills$1,400,000
- Pelmo Park-Humberlea$900,000
- Playter Estates-Danforth$1,510,000
- Pleasant View$900,000
- Princess-Rosethorn$1,700,000
- Regent Park$700,000
- Rexdale-Kipling$890,000
- Rockcliffe-Smythe$800,000
- Roncesvalles$1,300,000
- Rosedale-Moore Park$2,000,000
- Runnymede-Bloor West Village$1,370,000
- Rustic$1,000,000
- Scarborough Village$624,000
- South Eglinton-Davisville$800,000
- South Parkdale$800,000
- South Riverdale$1,070,000
- St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands$755,000
- St.Andrew-Windfields$2,400,000
- Steeles$900,000
- Stonegate-Queensway$1,300,000
- Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan$850,000
- Taylor Massey$540,000
- The Beaches$1,500,000
- Thistletown-Beaumond Heights$900,000
- Thorncliffe Park$500,000
- Trinity-Bellwoods$1,400,000
- University$1,400,000
- Victoria Village$800,000
- Wellington Place$740,000
- West Hill$800,000
- West Humber-Clairville$800,000
- West Queen West$760,000
- West Rouge$900,000
- Westminster-Branson$700,000
- Weston$800,000
- Weston-Pelham Park$900,000
- Wexford/Maryvale$900,000
- Willowdale West$900,000
- Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview$1,000,000
- Woburn North$700,000
- Woodbine Corridor$1,100,000
- Woodbine-Lumsden$1,000,000
- Wychwood$1,200,000
- Yonge-Bay Corridor$800,000
- Yonge-Doris$685,000
- Yonge-Eglinton$1,800,000
- Yonge-St. Clair$1,740,000
- York University Heights$700,000
- Yorkdale-Glen Park$900,000
One plan. All of it.
Everything you get with Tanero from CA$349 a month.
Your AI team
- ORBIT, your AI partner, in your dashboard on your laptop or phone
- Scheduled jobs: a morning briefing, a weekly review, follow-ups on your schedule
- Approval mode by default, with an Action Center for anything that needs your OK
- AI Employees that each own a job: three on Pro, five on Ultra
Calls and messages
- Calls answered day and night in 100+ languages, put through to you when asked
- ORBIT places calls for you: call-backs, confirmations and whole lists
- A dedicated local business number and a dialer in your browser
- Every call recorded, transcribed and summarized on the client's record
- Two-way texting that qualifies new leads
- Email written and sent from your own Gmail or Outlook
Clients and deals
- A private CRM that fills itself from every call, text, email and form
- A pipeline from New to Closed Won, with commissions to collect
- Notes, tasks, documents and contracts on each client
- Instant Match with live MLS® listings
- Feeds: every client's whole story in one post
Website and marketing
- Your own website with listing search, home value, calculators and visitor chat
- Your own domain, connected to your website
- Property pages with a short link and a viewing request
- Posts to Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, now or scheduled
- Flyers designed by ORBIT on request
- A calendar that books inside your own rules
- Setup fee: None
- Month to month
- Live in under 5 minutes
- Prices in Canadian dollars
05Questions
Toronto, in short.
How big is the market for a realtor in Toronto?
Toronto had 1,160,892 households and 2,794,356 people in 2021, up 2.3% from 2,731,571 in 2016. 51.9% of households own their home, so about 602,500 owner households are the sellers a realtor here works.
Which area codes will a realtor in Toronto see on calls?
Callers from Toronto use area codes 416, 647 and 437. Every Tanero plan includes a dedicated local business number, answered by ORBIT day and night.
Should a realtor in Toronto focus on sellers or first-time buyers?
Both, in proportion: 51.9% of households own their home and 48.1% rent. Owners are tomorrow's listings and renters tomorrow's first-time buyers, so keep both in your CRM with a follow-up plan.
Which languages should a realtor in Toronto be ready for?
66.4% of people speak English most often at home. The most common other languages are Mandarin (3.1%), Cantonese (2.7%), Tagalog (1.9%). In all, 158 languages are spoken most often at home, which is why ORBIT answers calls in 100+ languages.
Can ORBIT answer calls from Toronto clients in their own language?
Yes. ORBIT speaks 100+ languages on calls. It starts in the call language you set and switches to the caller's language once they speak a full sentence in it, then qualifies the caller and books the appointment.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Census Profile for Toronto (census subdivision), adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Area codes: Canadian Numbering Administrator. Language shares are for the language spoken most often at home, single responses.
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