Yonge & Eglinton

Around the Neighbourhood

Cultural landmarks: the Yonge Eglinton Centre at the corner is the area’s anchor, a mall and office complex now mid-transformation, with the old turret coming down in 2026 for a new addition. The North Toronto Memorial Community Centre at 200 Eglinton West is the local hub for the pool, rink and gym.

Hot local spots: Grazie Ristorante at 2373 Yonge has held its own for more than 30 years, Pai brings northern Thai to the strip, La Vecchia does proper Italian, and Cass Avenue at 150 Eglinton is the go-to for late cocktails and shareables.

Parks & green space: Eglinton Park, just west of Yonge behind the community centre, is the big local green with ball diamonds and tennis courts, currently getting a southwest revamp through 2027. Sherwood Park and its ravine trails sit a short walk northeast.

Your Typical Neighbour

Yonge-Eglinton runs young, educated and on the move. This is one of the densest, most condo-heavy pockets in midtown, and it pulls in professionals in their late twenties and thirties who want a subway at the door and a short list of errands they can walk to. Renters and first-time buyers make up a big share, households skew small, and the family contingent tends to live on the detached side streets rather than in the towers. “Young and Eligible” is a worn joke, but it still describes the corner pretty well.

Source: City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profile, Yonge-Eglinton

What We Love

The convenience is the whole pitch, and it delivers. You have a subway station, a new LRT line, groceries, gyms, restaurants and a movie theatre within a few blocks, and you can live here car-free without trying hard. The food and drink keeps getting better as the towers fill in, from longtime rooms like Grazie to newer arrivals along Yonge and Eglinton. And for all the density, you are never far from green… Eglinton Park and the Sherwood ravine give you somewhere to walk the dog or run that doesn’t involve dodging construction hoarding.

What We Don’t Love

The construction, full stop. This corner has been a building site for years, and with the Yonge Eglinton Centre rebuild and ongoing tower projects, the dust and detours aren’t done. The flip side of all that density is that the sidewalks and the subway platform get genuinely crowded at rush hour. And if you are buying in a tower, look hard at what’s going up next door… a clear view today can be a wall of glass in three years.

Real Estate

Yonge-Eglinton is condo country first and foremost. The bulk of what trades here is in the mid- and high-rise towers clustered around the intersection, ranging from older buildings from the 1980s and 90s to the wave of glass towers that went up over the last fifteen years. Walk a few blocks off Yonge, though, and the neighbourhood changes character fast: detached and semi-detached houses on quiet streets toward Sherwood Park, Lawrence Park and the Forest Hill edge, where prices climb steeply and inventory is thin. The Crosstown opening has put fresh attention on the Eglinton corridor, and more towers are in the pipeline. New to the market? Start by browsing current listings.

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

Schools

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Eglinton Junior Public School
Hodgson Middle School

SENIOR SCHOOLS

Willowdale High School
North Toronto Collegiate Institute

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

Transit

This is the part Yonge-Eglinton sells itself on. Line 1 (Yonge) runs from Eglinton Station straight to Union in about 20 minutes, and as of February 2026 the new Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown LRT is open, running east-west across the top of the neighbourhood and connecting Yonge-Eglinton to a long stretch of midtown without a trip downtown first. Buses fill in along Eglinton and the side routes, and drivers reach the Allen and the 401 north of here, though Yonge itself moves slowly at peak.