Social Development

Neighbourhoods and Communities

Information about social development work in Toronto's 140 neighbourhoods, including neighbourhood action planning, community safety and neighbourhood and tower revitalization.

News & Announcements

Website redevelopment

The Social Development, Finance & Administration website is undergoing a redesign. As part of this redesign, components of the site will be reorganized. The pages for Neighbourhood Action, Community Safety, Community Revitalization and Tower Renewal have been moved into the new Neighbourhoods and Communities section. Keep watching this space for more updates as we continue to revitalize our website.

SDFA announces new Tower and Neighbourhood Revitalization Unit

Social Development, Finance and Administration has restructured and created a new Tower and Neighbourhood Revitalization Unit with a greater focus on partner collaboration and implementation of Tower Renewal and Community Revitalization mandates.

Topics

Neighbourhood Action

The City of Toronto is working in Toronto neighbourhoods to strengthen communities, invest in social infrastructure, expand civic leadership and develop community partnerships.

Community Safety

Learn more about supports that are working to make Toronto's communities safer. Programs include Safety Audits and Community Crisis Response.

Tower Renewal

Tower Renewal is a program to drive broad environmental, social, economic, and cultural change by improving Toronto's concrete apartment towers and the neighbourhoods that surround them.

Community Revitalization

Revitalization is an opportunity to create attractive, livable communities by improving public transit, roads, community facilities, parks, schools and access to local social services.

Statistics and Data

Wellbeing Toronto

Explore Toronto's neighbourhoods with our a map visualization tool. Evaluate community well-being across Toronto's neighbourhoods on a number of factors, such as crime, transportation or housing.

Neighbourhood Profiles

Find detailed demographic information about Toronto neighbourhoods, prepared by the City's Social Policy Analysis & Research Unit.

Demographics Portal

Access and browse profiles, maps and other statistical data. Topics include population groups, housing characteristics, languages, income and more.

Related Strategies

Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020

TSNS 2020 supports healthy communities across Toronto by partnering with residents, businesses and agencies to invest in people, services, programs and facilities in specific neighbourhoods. This will strengthen the social, economic and physical conditions and deliver local impact for city-wide change.