What Is Considered North York? The Boundary and the Condo Search

Whose map?

What counts as North York depends on whose map you use. On the City of Toronto’s map, North York is a former municipality, now part of the City of Toronto. The City still publishes its boundary in the Former Municipality Boundaries open data file and this site uses that boundary.

Real estate listings follow a second map. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) sorts every listing into a district and a community and it has no area called North York. Ten TRREB districts overlap the old boundary and four of them also reach outside it.

So a condo search for “North York” is really a search across a list of TRREB communities. Below, we set out which ones, where the edges are unclear and what that means when you read listings or prices.

Two maps that do not match

The City of Toronto keeps two sets of shapes that matter here. One is the former municipality boundary, which has a polygon named North York. The other is the City’s set of 158 neighbourhoods.

TRREB keeps its own shapes. Its districts are numbered, with Toronto C01 to C15 in the centre, E01 to E11 in the east and W01 to W10 in the west and each district is split into communities. Many TRREB communities share a name with a City neighbourhood, but the two systems are separate and their lines may not match.

A few names show the gap.

• TRREB uses Willowdale East. The City now divides that area into three neighbourhoods called Yonge-Doris, East Willowdale and Avondale.
• TRREB uses Parkwoods-Donalda. The City now divides it into Parkwoods-O’Connor Hills and Fenside-Parkwoods.
• TRREB’s community Downsview-Roding-CFB lines up with two City neighbourhoods, Downsview and Oakdale-Beverley Heights.
• TRREB splits Humberlea-Pelmo Park between two districts and adds W4 or W5 to the name.

Neither system labels its areas as North York, so any list of North York communities comes from laying one map over the other.

Which TRREB districts overlap North York

To build the list, we tested each City neighbourhood against the City’s North York polygon. A neighbourhood counts as inside when its centre point falls within the polygon and we then treated the TRREB community of the same name as part of North York. This is our reading of the City’s files. TRREB itself does not say which districts make up North York.

TRREB district	Communities inside the former North York boundary	Communities in the district that are outside it
Toronto C04	Bedford Park-Nortown, Englemount-Lawrence	Lawrence Park North, Lawrence Park South, Forest Hill North
Toronto C06	Bathurst Manor, Clanton Park	None
Toronto C07	Lansing-Westgate, Newtonbrook West, Westminster-Branson, Willowdale West	None
Toronto C11	Flemingdon Park	Leaside, Thorncliffe Park
Toronto C12	Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills, St. Andrew-Windfields	None
Toronto C13	Banbury-Don Mills, Parkwoods-Donalda, Victoria Village	None
Toronto C14	Newtonbrook East, Willowdale East	None
Toronto C15	Bayview Village, Bayview Woods-Steeles, Don Valley Village, Henry Farm, Hillcrest Village, Pleasant View	None
Toronto W04	Yorkdale-Glen Park, Maple Leaf, Rustic, Brookhaven-Amesbury, Humberlea-Pelmo Park W4	Mount Dennis, Weston, Beechborough-Greenbrook, Briar Hill-Belgravia
Toronto W05	Black Creek, Downsview-Roding-CFB, Glenfield-Jane Heights, Humber Summit, York University Heights, Humberlea-Pelmo Park W5	Humbermede

Two points in this table need explaining.

First, Toronto C10 is absent. Its two communities, Mount Pleasant East and Mount Pleasant West, sit in the former City of Toronto on the boundary file, so C10 is not a North York district.

Second, Toronto C11 is on the list. Flemingdon Park is inside the old boundary even though the other two communities in its district, Leaside and Thorncliffe Park, are not.

Humbermede is a close call. Most of its outline lies inside the North York polygon, but its centre point falls outside, so this site leaves it out.

The Yonge and Lawrence split

The old boundary crosses the Yonge and Lawrence area, where two TRREB communities in district C04 meet.

• Bedford Park-Nortown, whose centre point is inside former North York.
• Lawrence Park North, whose centre point is in the former City of Toronto.

Lawrence Station on Line 1, at 3101 Yonge Street, is the subway station for this corner. To cover the corner as one area, this site includes Lawrence Park North in its Yonge and Lawrence condo guide and states that much of the area was in the old City of Toronto.

Houses lead sales here. In the second quarter of 2026 TRREB recorded 13 condo apartment sales out of 61 sales in Bedford Park-Nortown and 2 out of 52 in Lawrence Park North.

The communities this site treats as North York

When you search this site without choosing an area, the results are limited to these TRREB communities.

• From C04: Bedford Park-Nortown, Englemount-Lawrence, Lawrence Park North
• From C06: Bathurst Manor, Clanton Park
• From C07: Lansing-Westgate, Newtonbrook West, Westminster-Branson, Willowdale West
• From C11: Flemingdon Park
• From C12: Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills, St. Andrew-Windfields
• From C13: Banbury-Don Mills, Parkwoods-Donalda, Victoria Village
• From C14: Newtonbrook East, Willowdale East
• From C15: Bayview Village, Bayview Woods-Steeles, Don Valley Village, Henry Farm, Hillcrest Village, Pleasant View
• From W04: Yorkdale-Glen Park, Maple Leaf, Rustic, Brookhaven-Amesbury, Humberlea-Pelmo Park W4
• From W05: Black Creek, Downsview-Roding-CFB, Glenfield-Jane Heights, Humber Summit, York University Heights, Humberlea-Pelmo Park W5

Twelve neighbourhood guides each cover one or two of these communities. The Willowdale and North York Centre guide covers Willowdale East and Willowdale West, for example. The Yorkdale guide covers Yorkdale-Glen Park and the Flemingdon Park guide covers the one C11 community on the list.

How the boundary affects your search

Listings carry a community, not “North York”

A listing is filed under its TRREB community. A search for the words “North York” can miss units or pull in ones you did not want, depending on how a site defines the term. Search by community or use one of our area pages such as condos for sale at Yonge and Sheppard and you avoid the guesswork.

Prices are published by district

TRREB publishes no North York average price, sales count or rent, so anyone quoting a single North York figure has built it themselves. Published figures belong to a district or a community and a period. Four of the ten districts above include communities outside North York, so their figures describe a wider area. Our post on how much a condo costs in North York lists them with their sales counts.

The same name can mean two areas

“Willowdale” on a City map and “Willowdale East” on a listing do not cover the same ground. If you compare a census figure, a listing and a price report, check that all three use the same community.

The taxes do not change

Every community on this list is inside the City of Toronto. Wherever the unit sits within North York, you pay the Ontario land transfer tax and the Toronto municipal land transfer tax. The land transfer tax calculator works out both. Confirm the amounts for your purchase with a lawyer.

Next steps

1. Decide which corners you want to search and note their TRREB community names.
2. Search by those communities, not by the words “North York”.
3. When you read a price, check the district, the period and the number of sales behind it.
4. Read the North York condo buying guide for the steps from first search to closing.

If you are unsure which community a building falls in, contact us and we will check it for you.