The strength and vitality of the many neighbourhoods that make up Toronto, Ontario, Canada has earned the city its unofficial nickname of "the city of neighbourhoods.""The Globe's Insider's City Guides: Toronto" John Allemang, Tralee Pearce. The Globe and Mail. Jun 11, 2003. pg. T.1 There are 158 neighbourhoods officially recognized by the City of Toronto (in 2022, 34 neighbourhoods were created from 16 of the previous 140) and upwards of 240 official and unofficial neighbourhoods within city limits.

The current City of Toronto is the amalgamation of the former Metropolitan Toronto municipalities. Along with the original City of Toronto, these are East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York. The names of these municipalities are still often used by Toronto residents, sometimes for disambiguation purposes as amalgamation resulted in duplicated street names. The area known as Toronto before the 1998 amalgamation is sometimes called by the retronyms "Old Toronto" and "the core". For administrative purposes, Toronto is divided into four districts: Etobicoke-York, North York, Scarborough and Toronto-East York.

The Old Toronto district is, by far, the most populous and densest part of the city. It is also the business and administrative centre of the city. The uniquely Torontonian bay-and-gable housing style is common throughout the former city. The "inner ring" suburbs of York and East York are older, predominantly middle-income areas, and ethnically diverse. Much of the housing stock in these areas consists of pre–World War II single-family houses and some post-war high-rises. Many of the neighbourhoods in these areas were built up as streetcar suburbs and contain many dense and mixed-use streets, some of which are one-way. They share many characteristics with sections of the "old" city outside the downtown core. The "outer ring" suburbs of Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York are much more suburban in nature, although even these districts have some old-city characteristics (in particular southern Etobicoke along the shore of Lake Ontario) in areas bordering Old Toronto, and have developed modern urban centres of their own, such as North York City Centre around Mel Lastman Square.

The following is a list of the more notable neighbourhoods, organized by former municipality.

Neighbourhoods by former municipality Old Toronto

Old Toronto refers to the City of Toronto and its limits from 1967 to 1997. It is sometimes referred to as the "South" or "Central" district, and includes the downtown core. Some of these names such as "The Fashion District" are (or were) used as marketing for the areas or by BIAs; this area is actually called "King-Spadina" by locals. Another example is the "Old Town of York", also known as "King and Parliament" (although that intersection is one block east of the original ten blocks that formed the old town). According to Expat Arrivals, some neighbourhood locals also consider it to be a suburb of the main city of Toronto, as many choose to move there in pursuit of a more relaxed and "backwoods" vibe, though this is becoming no longer the case.

During the first quarter of the 21st century, much of Old Toronto had a boom in condominium construction.

Many were recreated or named to reconnect the areas with their past history, early beginnings, or even recent use and prominence. Some historical city "wards" used in the 19th century are no longer used: St. David's, St. John's, St. Paul's, St. George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's wards. There was a ward named for the patron saint of each of the three British nationalities: English (St. George), Scottish (St. Andrew), Welsh (St. David) and Irish (St. Patrick). , and still survive as subway stations of the Toronto subway, though St. George station is not named after the ward, but after St. George Street instead, itself named after Quetton St. George, a local military officer and landowner. St. Lawrence's Ward (named after the patron saint of Canada and the river, itself also named after the saint) remains, known today as "St. Lawrence". St. Paul's (named after the saint) remains as the name of an electoral district for each of the three levels of government, although the electoral district has very little to no overlap with the historic St. Paul's Ward and beginning in the 2015 Canadian federal election, the electoral district was renamed Toronto—St. Paul's. This meant that the St. Paul's electoral district is a misnomer for much of the history of the electoral district.

For the purposes of geographic distinction, Old Toronto is broken down into four subsections:

Downtown Core (Central)

Alexandra Park The Annex Baldwin Village Cabbagetown CityPlace Chinatown Church and Wellesley Corktown Discovery District Distillery District Entertainment District

East Bayfront Fashion District Financial District Garden District Grange Park Harbord Village Harbourfront Kensington Market Little Japan (within the northern half of the former First Chinatown within what was once The Ward) Moss Park Old Town

Quayside (future planned neighbourhood) Queen Street West Regent Park South Core St. James Town St. Lawrence Toronto Islands Trefann Court University (includes Huron–Sussex) West Don Lands Yorkville

East End

The Beaches (also known as The Beach) East Chinatown East Danforth (also known as Danforth Village) Gerrard Street East Gerrard India Bazaar (also known as Little India) Greektown (also known as The Danforth after the street it is on) Leslieville

Main Square Ookwemin Minising (future planned high-density neighbourhood on an artificial island formerly known as Villiers Island at the mouths of the Don River in the Port Lands) Playter Estates Port Lands Riverdale (includes Riverside) Upper Beaches

North End

Casa Loma Chaplin Estates Davisville Village Deer Park (Yonge and St. Clair) Forest Hill (and Forest Hill Village and Upper Village) Lawrence Park Lytton Park Midtown Moore Park

North Toronto Rosedale South Hill (includes Rathnelly) Summerhill Uptown Wanless Park Wychwood Park Yonge–Eglinton (considered centre of Midtown Toronto and contains the former village of Eglinton)

West End

Beaconsfield Village Bloor West Village Bloorcourt Village Bracondale Hill (Hillcrest; not to be confused with Hillcrest in North York) Brockton Village Carleton Village Corso Italia Davenport Dovercourt Park Dufferin Grove Earlscourt

Fort York High Park The Junction (formerly West Toronto; a short section on Dundas Street also contains Little Malta) Junction Triangle Koreatown Liberty Village Little Italy Little Portugal Little Tibet Mirvish Village

Niagara Ordinance Triangle Palmerston Parkdale Queen Street West Regal Heights Roncesvalles Runnymede Seaton Village Swansea Trinity–Bellwoods Wallace Emerson

East York

An autonomous urban borough until 1997, East York is primarily located north of Danforth Avenue between the Don River to the west and Victoria Park Avenue to the east, though the Shoppers World Danforth shopping plaza/mall hybrid, on the south side of Danforth Avenue west of Victoria Park Avenue, is located in East York. East York was an exclave of York from 1922 to 1924 and became a separate municipality to simplify governance. East York developed contemporaneously with the West End of old Toronto, and it is similar in form and character. In 1967, East York was expanded to include the Town of Leaside. Since the 1998 amalgamation, it is administered together with old Toronto, and separate from Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke-York, by the "Toronto and East York Neighbourhood Council".

East York itself is commonly divided into two zones with mainly Edwardian urban neighbourhoods situated south of Taylor-Massey Creek and referred to as Old East York.

Old East York Broadview North Crescent Town East Danforth Pape Village Woodbine Heights

Suburban East York Bermondsey Governor's Bridge Leaside O'Connor–Parkview Thorncliffe Park

Etobicoke

The former township and city of Etobicoke is on the west side of the Humber River. Several of its neighbourhoods, such as Long Branch, New Toronto, and Mimico, were villages independent of Etobicoke. Others, such as Claireville, Islington and Thistletown were former postal villages established when Etobicoke was still a rural township. Others are residential subdivisions built after World War II as the former Metro Toronto developed.

Etobicoke is often divided into three zones: north, central, and south, roughly approximate to that of the electoral districts of all three levels of government.

Alderwood Centennial Park Claireville Eatonville (Etobicoke West Mall) The Elms Etobicoke City Centre Eringate-Centennial-West Deane Humber Bay Humber Heights-Westmount Humber Valley Village

Humberwood Islington Kingsview Village (The Westway) The Kingsway Long Branch Markland Wood Mimico New Toronto Princess Gardens Rexdale

Richview Smithfield Stonegate-Queensway Sunnylea Thistletown Thorncrest Village West Humber-Claireville West Deane Park Willowridge

North York

The former city of North York is located north of York, Old Toronto, and East York, from the Humber River to the west, and Victoria Park Avenue to the east. North York is split by Yonge Street into an east section and a west section. Several of North York's neighbourhoods (such as Lansing, Newtonbrook and Willowdale) developed from postal villages when North York Township was primarily agrarian. Others are residential subdivisions developed after World War II. North York City Centre is a commercial district developed to be the 'downtown' of the city.

Amesbury Armour Heights Bathurst Manor Bayview Village Bayview Woods-Steeles Bedford Park Bermondsey Black Creek The Bridle Path Clanton Park (Wilson Heights) Don Mills Don Valley Village (The Peanut) Downsview Flemingdon Park

Glen Park (Yorkdale – Glen Park; Englemount; Marlee Village) Henry Farm Hillcrest Village (not to be confused with Hillcrest in Old Toronto, also known as Bracondale Hill) Hoggs Hollow Humber Summit Humbermede (Emery) Jane and Finch (University Heights; Elia) Lansing Lawrence Heights Lawrence Manor Ledbury Park Maple Leaf Newtonbrook

North York City Centre Oakdale–Beverley Heights Parkway Forest Parkwoods Pelmo Park-Humberlea Pleasant View Uptown Toronto Victoria Village Westminster–Branson Willowdale York Mills York University Heights (Village at York)

Scarborough

The district of Scarborough extends from the east side of Victoria Park Avenue to the eastern limits of Toronto. West Rouge was transferred from Pickering to Scarborough in 1974 as part of the establishment of Durham Region. Scarborough is the largest district by area.

Many of the neighbourhoods, such as Agincourt, Brown's Corners and Milliken, correspond to former postal villages supporting the then-agrarian township. Others are residential subdivisions developed after World War II. Others are commercial districts.

Agincourt Armadale Bendale (Cedarbrae) Birch Cliff Brown's Corners (historical) Clairlea Cliffside Cliffcrest Dorset Park Eglinton East

Golden Mile Guildwood Highland Creek Ionview L'Amoreaux Malvern Maryvale Milliken (also in Markham) Morningside Morningside Heights Oakridge

Port Union (Centennial Scarborough) Rouge Scarborough City Centre Scarborough Junction Scarborough Village Steeles Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan West Hill West Rouge Wexford Woburn

York