Its residents were originally poor immigrants from England living in dozens of one and two bedroom tar and paper shacks which initially resulted in the village being called a shantytown.

The main thoroughfare of Bloor Street consists almost exclusively of mixed-use residential and commercial buildings.

The Bloorcourt Village BIA posts its streetlamp banners on Bloor between Dufferin and Montrose.

The buildings along Bloor Street are typically two or three stories tall, with retail commercial on the main floor, and offices or rental housing on the remainder.

At Dovercourt Road, a large, high-rise apartment complex houses lower-middle-income tenants on the southwest corner.

The boundaries stretch from Dupont south to Shanley and east-west from Salem to Ossington Avenue.

While the Canadian Pacific Railway operates a main line between the two thoroughfares, a large amount of former industrial space has been converted to loft condominia.

[6] For Census Tract 0096.00, Chinese people represented the largest visible minority group in 2006 and 2011.

South Asians previously represented the second largest visible minority group, but they decreased by one third, resulting in a drop to fourth place.