South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021.

[4] South Asian Canadians in the region also include significant Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, and Nepalis, all representing several different ethnolinguistic backgrounds.

As of 2011 the main areas of Indo-Canadian settlement are Scarborough[4] and Etobicoke[citation needed] in Toronto and the cities of Brampton, Markham, and Mississauga.

Of them, 345,855 were classified as East Indian, 45,240 were Sri Lankan, 33,145 were Tamil, 32,305 were South Asian n.i.e., 20,480 were Punjabi, 6,435 were Bangladeshi, 3,795 were Bengali, 2,725 were Goan, 1,970 were Sinhalese, 1,830 were Gujarati, 385 were Nepali, and 270 were Kashmiri.

[13] Aminur Rahim, author of an article about the Bengalis of Ontario, wrote that around 1973 a distinct Bangladeshi community was established in Toronto.

[5]During the civil war period, a considerable amount of Sri Lankans immigrated to Canada using refugee visas.

[4] Today, Urdu, Punjabi and Tamil are the three most spoken languages in Toronto's South Asian community.

Ram Mulgund, an actuary in a Canadian insurance company who served as the president of Brihan Maharashtra Mandal (BMM), stated that the high level of education of Maharashtrian women meant that they were the primary persons operating the Marathi Bhashik Mandal.

[21] In 2012 Dakshana Bascaramurty of The Globe and Mail wrote that the popularity of ethnic shopping centres declined and that many Indo-Canadians are preferring to go to mainstream retailers.

The Toronto area at one time had eight Indian cinemas but the rise of home video caused many to go out of business.

[23] Religious groups in Toronto which have Indo-Canadians include Hindus, Muslims, Zoroastrian Parsis, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists.

The Sufi Circle of Toronto, originally the Society for the Understanding of the Finite and Infinite (SUFI), was founded by Dr. Mirza Qadeer Baiq, a shaikh from Ajmer, India who served as a professor in the University of Toronto Islamic Studies Department.