Jamaican origins in the Toronto area
Jamaican origin is reported by 5.9 percent of the population in private households in Ajax, a higher share than the 2.0 percent in the city of Toronto.
Origin in this story: Jamaican
About 124,000 people in the Toronto census metropolitan area reported Jamaican origin. · Ontario
Jamaican is reported by 5.9 percent of the population in private households in Ajax and 4.6 percent in Brampton, against 2.0 percent in the city of Toronto and 0.5 percent across Canada.
The response passes 10 percent of the population in private households in 271 dissemination areas in Canada, and 241 of them are within the Toronto census metropolitan area.
Across the Toronto census metropolitan area 124,400 people reported Jamaican origins, or 2.0 percent of everyone counted there.
Within Brampton one dissemination area reports Jamaican origin for 25.7 percent of the 350 people in private households counted there.
Residents may report more than one origin, so the shares across origins can sum to more than 100 percent.
Jamaican, Haitian, Guyanese, Trinidadian/Tobagonian, Caribbean unspecified and West Indian unspecified are separate responses in the census. They are never added together here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
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