Lawrence Park South

Your Typical Neighbour

Lawrence Park South is one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the country and it shows in the numbers: a large share of households report incomes well into the six figures, most own their homes, and the majority of the housing is single-detached. It’s also highly educated, with roughly three-quarters of adults holding a bachelor’s degree or more, and strongly family-oriented, with a high proportion of households with children. In short: established, affluent professional families, plus a renter and condo population concentrated down at the Yonge and Eglinton end.

Source: City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profile, Lawrence Park South 

What We Love

It’s a complete family neighbourhood. Big houses on real lots, top-tier schools public and private, ravine trails for the dog and the kids, and a subway and now an LRT within walking distance. The streets are quiet and well-kept without being lifeless, and the Yonge strip gives you coffee, errands and dinner close to home. For buyers who want midtown’s best version of family life and can clear the price of entry, there’s a lot to like.

What We Don’t Love

The price, first and foremost. Beyond that, the schools are excellent but crowded, the local shops and restaurants close earlier than you’d expect, and the big-box groceries, drugstores and LCBO are sparse enough that you’ll often drive for them. And around the schools at drop-off and pickup, the traffic is genuinely not worth fighting… plan around it. The Yonge and Eglinton corner is also a long-running construction zone as the condos keep rising.

Real Estate

Lawrence Park South is predominantly large detached houses, a lot of it English Cottage, Tudor Revival, Georgian and Colonial styles built between about 1910 and the late 1940s, on generous treed lots. There’s a steady churn of teardowns and rebuilds at the top of the market. The condo story is concentrated at the southern edge near Yonge and Eglinton, where recent and ongoing projects like Whitehaus and E2 (with a direct connection to Eglinton station) have added density and a lower-cost way into the area. New to the market? Start with our First-Time Buyer guide.

(Current prices and days on market appear in the live statistics block below, updated quarterly.)

Schools

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School
Glenview Senior Public School
John Ross Robertson Junior Public School
Allenby Junior Public School

SENIOR SCHOOLS

Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute
Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School
North Toronto Collegiate Institute

PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Blyth Academy
Havergal College
St. Clement’s School

For school rankings and Fraser Institute scores, see our interactive Toronto school map.

Transit

The Yonge subway (Line 1) runs through the neighbourhood with Lawrence and Eglinton stations, and Line 5 Eglinton, open since February 2026, adds an east-west line with Eglinton, Avenue and Chaplin stations along the southern edge. Buses fill in along Lawrence and Avenue Road, and drivers reach downtown via Yonge, Avenue Road or Mount Pleasant.