As per the 2016 Census, Humber River—Black Creek is the City of Toronto riding with the highest percentage of people belonging to the Latin American (9.5%) and Southeast Asian (8.9%) communities.

It is also the City of Toronto riding with the highest percentage of people of Jamaican (8.5%) and Vietnamese (8.0%) ethnic origins.

At the same time, it is one of only two (2) City of Toronto ridings (besides Etobicoke Centre), where Italian is the largest ethnic community (12.8%).

It includes the neighbourhoods of Humber Summit, Humbermede, Humberlea, York University Heights, Jane and Finch and the extreme western part of Downsview.

Languages: 44.3% English, 7% Spanish, 6.1% Vietnamese, 5.8% Italian, 3.9% Tagalog, 2.1% Urdu, 1.8% Punjabi, 1.6% Yue, 1.4% Tamil, 1.2% Portuguese, 1.1% Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, 1.1% Gujarati Religions: 58.9% Christian (32.6% Catholic, 3.4% Pentecostal, 1.7% Christian Orthodox, 1% Anglican), 15.2% No religion, 10.5% Muslim, 7.1% Hindu, 6.1% Buddhist, 1.7% Sikh Median income (2020): $31,400 Average income (2020): $37,240 Ethnic origins: Italian 10.2%, Vietnamese 8.1%, Filipino: 7.3%, Indian 5.9%, Jamaican 5.3%, Canadian 5.2%, African 4.6%, Chinese 4%, Guyanese 2.5%, Pakistani 2.3% It was created by the British North America Act which divided the County of York into two ridings: York East and York West.

In 1933, it was redefined to consist of the part of the Township of York lying west of a line drawn north from the limits of the city of Toronto along Weston Road and west along Lambton Avenue to the Humber River, the Township of Etobicoke, the towns of Mimico and New Toronto and the villages of Long Branch and Swansea.