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Other Income - Net (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2014 | Oct. 31, 2013 | Oct. 31, 2012
Other Nonoperating Income By Component [Line Items] |  |  |
Interest income | $ 2,493 us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInterest | $ 4,457 us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInterest | $ 4,677 us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInterest
Income from Ancillary Businesses | 10,653 tol_IncomefromAncillaryBusinesses | 9,912 tol_IncomefromAncillaryBusinesses | 6,608 tol_IncomefromAncillaryBusinesses
Management fee income from unconsolidated entities | 7,306 us-gaap_ManagementFeesRevenue | 2,890 us-gaap_ManagementFeesRevenue | 2,212 us-gaap_ManagementFeesRevenue
Retained customer deposits | 3,067 tol_RetainedCustomerDeposits | 2,534 tol_RetainedCustomerDeposits | 3,247 tol_RetainedCustomerDeposits
Land sales, net | 25,489 tol_Landsalesearningsnet | 4,435 tol_Landsalesearningsnet | 1,425 tol_Landsalesearningsnet
Income recognized from settlement of litigation |  | 13,229 tol_Incomerecognizedduetosettlementoflitigation |
Interest expense | (656)tol_InterestExpenses |  |
Other | 3,476 tol_OtherMiscIncome | 4,596 tol_OtherMiscIncome | 3,276 tol_OtherMiscIncome
Total other income - net | 66,192 us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense | 52,238 us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense | 25,921 us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense
Revenues and expenses of non-core ancillary businesses |  |  |
Revenue | 100,284 tol_RevenuefromAncillaryBusiness | 89,182 tol_RevenuefromAncillaryBusiness | 67,137 tol_RevenuefromAncillaryBusiness
Expense | 89,631 tol_ExpensesfromAncillaryBusinesses | 79,270 tol_ExpensesfromAncillaryBusinesses | 60,529 tol_ExpensesfromAncillaryBusinesses
Revenues and expenses from land sales [Abstract] |  |  |
Revenue | 242,931 us-gaap_LandSales | 29,252 us-gaap_LandSales | 26,342 us-gaap_LandSales
Expense | 217,442 us-gaap_CostsOfRealEstateServicesAndLandSales | 24,817 us-gaap_CostsOfRealEstateServicesAndLandSales | 24,917 us-gaap_CostsOfRealEstateServicesAndLandSales
Gibraltar [Member] |  |  |
Other Nonoperating Income By Component [Line Items] |  |  |
Gibraltar | $ 14,364 us-gaap_RealEstatePartnershipInvestmentSubsidiariesNetIncomeLossBeforeTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = tol_GibraltarMember | $ 10,185 us-gaap_RealEstatePartnershipInvestmentSubsidiariesNetIncomeLossBeforeTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = tol_GibraltarMember | $ 4,476 us-gaap_RealEstatePartnershipInvestmentSubsidiariesNetIncomeLossBeforeTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = tol_GibraltarMember

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- Definition The aggregate costs of real estate land sales including administrative paperwork, real estate brokerage, title, and property management operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 225 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.2(e)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26872669&loc=d3e20235-122688 + Details
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