More than half of Torontonians — 51.5 per cent — identify as visible minorities, recently released data from Canada’s 2016 census shows. The data shows a marked difference in diversity between the multicultural heartland of the Greater Toronto Area and the rest of the country.

In Toronto, 51.5 per cent of respondents to the 2016 census identified as visible minorities. In 2011, the number was 49 per cent. ( Richard Lautens / Toronto Star )

Twenty-nine per cent of Ontarians and 22 per cent of Canadians overall reported being visible minorities, versus a thin majority in the City of Toronto. The numbers also varied in the Big Smoke. The higher proportions of diversity — more than 50 per cent — were clumped in the inner suburbs of Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke. What does your community look like?

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Search by address or zoom in on your census tract, a geographic area defined by Statistics Canada that typically makes up between 2,500 and 8,000 people. People who identify as Aboriginal are not counted as a visible minority by Statistics Canada.

Diversity in the GTA, by census tract

In five of the suburban cities around Toronto — Ajax, Mississauga, Richmond Hill, Brampton and Markham — a majority of people identify as visible minorities.

Here’s how the numbers break down for Toronto: South Asian: 12.59 per cent

Chinese: 11.13 per cent Black: 8.91 per cent

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