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Toronto, measured — living charts from public data, refreshed automatically.

Dana Feldmandata journalismSep 11AI

Toronto, right now

BoC policy rate

2.25%

Unchanged vs prior month

TTC subway delays, last month

2,513

−125 incidents vs prior month

Blue Jays run differential

-39

This season

CAD/USD (1 USD in CAD)

1.382

−0.004 vs prior month

Ontario unemployment

6.9%

+0.1pp vs prior month

Toronto inflation, y/y

1.7%

Unchanged vs prior month

Transit

TTC subway delays by line, year to date

Reported delay incidents by month, split across Line 1, 2, and 4. Entries with an ambiguous or multi-line code (about 2% of rows) are excluded rather than guessed at.

Line 1 (Yonge–University)Line 2 (Bloor–Danforth)Line 4 (Sheppard)
2437Jan 262009Feb 262356Mar 262676Apr 262590May 262594Jun 262451Jul 26
Source: City of Toronto Open Data (TTC Subway Delay Data)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

TTC subway delay counts

Reported Line 1/2/4 delay incidents, by month.

2106Jan 25227419862117Apr 25217519412122Jul 25271918132027Oct 25221522422481Jan 26204824002719Apr 26263326382513Jul 26
Source: City of Toronto Open Data (TTC Subway Delay Data)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

TTC streetcar delay counts

Reported streetcar delay incidents, by month.

1037Jan 25192011201170Apr 25122812791146Jul 2512248971111Oct 25112211911366Jan 26110912291296Apr 261295972944Jul 26
Source: City of Toronto Open Data (TTC Streetcar Delay Data)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

Housing & Construction

New Housing Price Index, Toronto

Total (house and land), index December 2016=100, last 24 months.

114.6Aug 24Nov 24Feb 25May 25Aug 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26105.8Jul 26

Building permits issued, Toronto CMA

Total value of residential and non-residential permits, seasonally adjusted, by month.

$2.3BJul 24$2.4B$2.9B$2.6BOct 24$2.0B$2.7B$2.0BJan 25$2.3B$2.0B$2.2BApr 25$1.9B$2.2B$2.2BJul 25$1.9B$2.0B$2.2BOct 25$2.0B$2.2B$2.9BJan 26$1.9B$2.6B$2.3BApr 26$2.3B$4.0BJun 26

Housing starts, Toronto CMA

Total housing units started, by month.

2,163Aug 241,7332,4892,301Nov 249802,3681,479Feb 251,2252,2903,512May 251,7011,7202,156Aug 253,6781,4452,051Nov 252,4622,3121,072Feb 261,5053,0803,124May 262,1321,540Jul 26
Source: Statistics Canada / CMHC, Housing Starts (table 34-10-0154-01)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

Economy

Bank of Canada policy rate

Target for the overnight rate, last 24 months.

3.75%Oct 243.75%3.25%3.00%Jan 253.00%2.75%2.75%Apr 252.75%2.75%2.75%Jul 252.75%2.50%2.25%Oct 252.25%2.25%2.25%Jan 262.25%2.25%2.25%Apr 262.25%2.25%2.25%Jul 262.25%2.25%Sep 26
Source: Bank of Canada Valet APIFetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

Canada/US exchange rate

Bank of Canada daily average, in Canadian dollars per 1 US dollar (USD/CAD) — last observation of each month, last 12 months.

1.402Oct 25Dec 251.356Feb 26Apr 261.421Jun 26Aug 261.382Sep 26
Source: Bank of Canada Valet APIFetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

Ontario unemployment rate

Seasonally adjusted, ages 15+, last 24 months.

7.0%Sep 24Dec 24Mar 257.9%Jun 25Sep 25Dec 25Mar 26Jun 266.8%6.9%Aug 26
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (table 14-10-0287-01)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

Toronto inflation (CPI), year over year

All-items Consumer Price Index, % change from 12 months earlier, not seasonally adjusted.

1.5%Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 261.0%Mar 262.1%May 261.7%Jul 26
Source: Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index (table 18-10-0004-01)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

City Life

Marriage licences issued

City of Toronto, all four civic centres combined, by month.

2215Jul 24208113771206Oct 248777831093Jan 2593310981300Apr 25173921142317Jul 25195914881119Oct 25818788844Jan 2684913541392Apr 2616061952Jun 26
Source: City of Toronto Open Data (Marriage Licence Statistics)Fetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

Major crime indicators reported, citywide

Total reported incidents across the five major crime indicators (assault, break-and-enter, auto theft, robbery, theft over), by report month. City-wide count only — no neighbourhood breakdown.

4,055Jul 244,128Oct 24Jan 253,125Apr 25Jul 25Oct 25Jan 26Apr 263,981Jun 26

Sports

Blue Jays run differential

Runs scored minus runs allowed, by month, this season.

0Mar 26-24Apr 26+17May 26-28Jun 26-23Jul 26+8Aug 26+11Sep 26
Source: MLB Stats APIFetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

AL East standings

Current regular-season standings.

TeamWLPCTGBSTRK
Rays8759.596-L1
Yankees8462.5753.0W3
Red Sox8067.5447.5L2
Blue Jays7374.49714.5L1
Orioles7176.48316.5W1
Source: MLB Stats APIFetched Sep 11, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET

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