Map of The Most Commonly Spoken Languages In Toronto Other Than English

The map above and below are both the work of Alex McPhee, aka Pronghorn maps.

And you can buy both of them on his website here.

Toronto is one of the most diverse cities in the world with 51% of residents born outside of Canada.

Miami is the only city in North America with a higher share of of foreign born residents at 58%, although the vast majority of these come from other Latin American countries.

To put this in a bit more perspective New York has a 36% foreign born population, London has 41% and Sydney has 43%.

While Dubai is the overall city the most foreign both residents at 91%.

More on the languages spoken (and where) in Toronto:

You can see the full list from the 2021 Canadian Census below.

It looks at the most common language (mother tongue) spoken at home.

I’ve included data for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and not just the city of Toronto proper, which is why the numbers are slightly different from the maps.

Langauge	Language Spoken Most Often At Home
English Only	4,035,545
Multiple responses	480,805
English and non-official language(s)	449,840
Mandarin	204,415
Yue (Cantonese)	177,950
Punjabi (Panjabi)	161,965
Urdu	89,120
Tamil	83,220
Spanish	78,275
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	77,925
Iranian Persian	57,085
Arabic	54,360
Portuguese	52,740
Russian	52,025
Gujarati	46,800
Italian	42,260
Korean	40,600
Hindi	40,070
Vietnamese	35,275
Bengali	27,640
Polish	27,560
French	27,420
Serbo-Croatian	18,030
Dari	15,110
Greek	14,680
English and French	13,920
Turkic languages	13,825
Ukrainian	11,920
Turkish	11,820
Malayalam	11,085
Serbian	11,005
Romanian	10,390
Aramaic languages	10,035
Niger-Congo languages	9,580
Telugu	9,445
Multiple non-official languages	9,200
Persian (Farsi), n.o.s.	8,870
Cushitic languages	8,245
Somali	7,540
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	7,540
Uralic languages	7,340
Armenian	7,335
Albanian	6,735
Ilocano	6,680
Hungarian	6,625
English, French and non-official language(s)	5,885
Pashto	5,775
Croatian	5,385
Tibeto-Burman languages	5,230
Tibetan	4,400
Japanese	4,395
Nepali	4,380
Amharic	4,350
Hebrew	4,340
Macedonian	4,325
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	4,225
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	4,220
Tigrigna	4,150
Marathi	4,055
Akan (Twi)	3,775
Bulgarian	3,100
Creole languages	2,915
Hakka	2,435
Wu (Shanghainese)	2,335
Cebuano	2,325
German	2,295
Chinese, n.o.s.	2,285
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	2,105
Kurdish	2,065
Slovak	2,030
Sign languages	1,970
French and non-official language(s)	1,960
Yoruba	1,785
Tai-Kadai languages	1,685
Hiligaynon	1,655
Khmer (Cambodian)	1,650
Kannada	1,640
Indonesian	1,555
American Sign Language	1,525
Kacchi	1,435
Bosnian	1,400
Swahili	1,255
Azerbaijani	1,200
Czech	1,190
Morisyen	1,175
Baltic languages	1,140
Sindhi	1,070
Low Saxon-Low Franconian languages	1,055
Georgian	1,020
Bisaya, n.o.s.	990
Lao	955
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	800
Lithuanian	785
Indo-Aryan languages, n.i.e.	735
Creole, n.o.s.	665
Thai	665
Maltese	610
Slovene (Slovenian)	600
Dutch	590
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	575
Min Dong	570
Oromo	560
Oriya languages	555
Burmese	545
Haitian Creole	530
Konkani	530
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	495
Harari	470
Igbo	450
Sign languages, n.i.e.	445
Afrikaans	440
Aramaic, n.o.s.	385
Estonian	385
Latvian	360
Odia	360
Uzbek	340
Finnish	325
Creole languages, n.i.e.	315
Scandinavian languages	315
Uyghur	300
Iranian languages, n.i.e.	255
Ganda	250
Mongolian	245
Serbo-Croatian, n.i.e.	235
Yiddish	235
Chadic languages	220
Pangasinan	220
Nilo-Saharan languages	220
Edo	215
Hausa	210
Coptic	205
Bikol	200
Oriya, n.o.s.	195
Swedish	180
Waray-Waray	175
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	170
Shona	170
Baluchi	165
Kankanaey	155
Jamaican English Creole	150
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	150
Karenic languages	150
Parsi	145
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	145
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	145
Ga	140
Rundi (Kirundi)	140
Lingala	135
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	125
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	120
S'gaw Karen	120
Other languages, n.i.e.	120
Tulu	115
Kashmiri	115
Bilen	105
Assamese	105
Indigenous languages 9	100
Kinaray-a	95
Soninke	90
Berber languages	85
Danish	85
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	85
Algonquian languages	80
Malay	80
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	75
Krio	75
Belarusian	75
Swiss German	70
Indo-European languages, n.i.e.	70
Éwé	70
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	65
Catalan	65
Mwani	65
Wolof	60
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	60
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e.	60
Ndebele	55
Celtic languages	50
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	45
Ojibway languages	45
Bamanankan	45
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	40
Gikuyu	40
Sotho-Tswana languages	40
Ojibway, n.o.s.	35
Berber languages, n.i.e.	35
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	35
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	35
Norwegian	35
Kabyle	30
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	30
Irish	30
Nuer	30
African, n.o.s.	30
Karenic languages, n.i.e.	30
Cree-Innu languages	25
Cree languages	25
Tamazight	20
Fijian	20
Vlaams (Flemish)	20
Rusyn	15
Welsh	15
Kazakh	15
Nehinawewin (Swampy Cree)	10
Cree, n.o.s.	10
Northern Athabaskan languages	10
Iroquoian languages	10
Mohawk	10
Mina	10
Scottish Gaelic	10
Icelandic	10
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	10
Rohingya	10
Mòoré	10
Wojenaka	10
Dinka	10
Nehiyawewin (Plains Cree)	5
Eastern Algonquian languages	5
Mi'kmaq	5
Oji-Cree	5
Anishinaabemowin (Chippewa)	5
Athabaskan languages	5
Inuktut (Inuit) languages	5
Inuktitut	5
Malagasy languages	5
Malagasy, n.o.s.	5
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	5
Frisian	5
Low German, n.o.s.	5
Luba-Kasai	5
Quebec Sign Language	5
Kuki-Chin languages	5