“Toronto’s middle-class suburbs of the 1970s have turned into “urban deserts” of growing poverty while the city centre has become an enclave for the ultra rich.”
And so begins an article in today’s Toronto Star that looks at Statistics Canada income data broken down by neighbourhood, over time.
Check out the article and look closely at Birch Cliff on the map.
You’ll see that while much of Scarborough has plunged into poverty over the last 30 years, Birch Cliff remains solidly middle income.
The same is true for most of the neighbourhoods bordering Lake Ontario.
Interestingly, the Beach has skipped an income bracket, going from middle income to very high income over the same time period.