Economic Activity

The employment lands surrounding Toronto Pearson are a significant contributor to the Greater Toronto Area’s economic prosperity and, with 12,500 businesses employing over 350,000 people, it is Canada’s largest employment area.

A breakdown of the number of businesses within each municipality in the Pearson Eco-Business Zone is below:

CityEstimated # JobsAverage Business SizeTotal # Businesses
Brampton116,000264,665
Mississauga186,000306,369
Toronto53,000371,466
 355,0002912,500

The business typology in the Pearson Eco-Business Zone is diverse and includes everything from service and accomodation operations, to the manufacturing and logistics sectors.  The largest sub-sectors are transportation and logistics, automotive supply chain, plastics and food processing.

Over 80 per cent of the businesses in Pearson Eco-Business Zone are small-to-medium enterprises with fewer than 500 employees. The distribution of employees can be found below:

 

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