Immigrants in Toronto
In 2025, Toronto was the destination to 97,610 new immigrants.
In 2025, 169,550 new permanent residents were admitted to Ontario, 57.6% of them landed in Toronto.
From 2020 to 2025, Toronto was the destination choice of 690,445 new immigrants.
Immigrants in Toronto in Recent Years
Since 2020 immigration has significantly shaped Toronto’s demographic landscape as the city continued to attract a substantial share of newcomers to Ontario and Canada overall. Following pandemic related slowdowns in 2020 and 2021 Canada ramped up permanent resident admissions alongside large inflows of international students and temporary workers many of whom settled in the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto drew around two thirds of Ontario’s recent immigrants in recent years with major source countries including India China and the Philippines. This influx drove rapid population growth in the region but also intensified pressures on housing availability and affordability prompting federal policy adjustments in 2024 and 2025 that reduced temporary resident targets. Overall these patterns have reinforced Toronto’s status as a highly diverse global hub while contributing to both economic vitality and infrastructure challenges in the post 2020 era.
Census 2011
Toronto had the largest foreign-born population of any census metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada (National Household Survey 2011).
A total of 2,537,410 foreign-born people accounted for 46% of Toronto’s population (almost 5 out of 10 people were immigrants), and they represented 20.1% of Ontario’s population.
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Please note that we used data from the National Household Survey (NHS) knowing that its quality is still under criticism because this survey was conducted on a voluntary basis, so its validity, reliability and comparability with other instruments, such as population censuses, have become an issue. In fact, before the first release of the NHS results, Statistics Canada issued warnings and cautions when using the NHS data, so use the data cautiously.
