Population: 945,967 (as of October 31, 2006)
If York Region was a village of 100 people, this would be its make up:
Citizenship
92 villagers, regardless of country of birth would be Canadian Citizens, 8 would not.
Immigration
About 40 villagers would be immigrants, 60 would be Canadian born.
The top ten non-official languages
Cantonese, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Persian, Punjabi, Tamil, Korean, Mandarin and Urdu.
Religion
• 60 villagers would be Christians
• 17 villagers would have no religion
• 8 would be Jewish
• 4 would be Muslim
• 3 would be Hindu
• 8 would belong to a variety of other religions
Ethnic Origin
• 22 villagers would be of Chinese or East/Southeast Asian descent
• 20 would be of Italian descent
• 12 would identify as being of Canadian descent
• 10 villagers' ethnic origin would stem from the British Isles
• 10 would be of South or West Asian descent
• 7 would be Jewish
• 7 would be of Western or South Western European descent
• 4 would be of Eastern European descent
• 1 would be of Caribbean descent
The rest would be of a wide variety of other ethnic origins.
Languages Spoken at Home
• 83 villagers would speak English
• 8 would speak Cantonese or Chinese
• 2 would speak Italian
Other languages include Russian, Persian, Punjabi, Tamil and Korean.
Age
• 35 villagers would be children or youth between the ages of 0 and 24
• 47 would be 25 to 54 years of age
• 18 would be 55 or over
