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Other Income - Net (Details) (USD $) | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2015 | Jan. 31, 2014
Other Nonoperating Income By Component [Line Items] |  |
Interest income | $ 488,000 us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInterest | $ 1,064,000 us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInterest
Income from Ancillary Businesses | 10,839,000 tol_IncomefromAncillaryBusinesses | 1,613,000 tol_IncomefromAncillaryBusinesses
Management fee income | 2,979,000 us-gaap_ManagementFeesRevenue | 1,227,000 us-gaap_ManagementFeesRevenue
Retained customer deposits | 1,340,000 tol_RetainedCustomerDeposits | 888,000 tol_RetainedCustomerDeposits
Land sales, net | 4,817,000 tol_Landsalesearningsnet | 6,258,000 tol_Landsalesearningsnet
Other | 731,000 tol_OtherMiscIncome | 1,159,000 tol_OtherMiscIncome
Total other income - net | 22,016,000 us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense | 16,541,000 us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense
Revenues and expenses of non-core ancillary businesses |  |
Revenue | 31,280,000 tol_RevenuefromAncillaryBusiness | 20,940,000 tol_RevenuefromAncillaryBusiness
Expense | 20,441,000 tol_ExpensesfromAncillaryBusinesses | 19,327,000 tol_ExpensesfromAncillaryBusinesses
Revenues and expenses from land sales [Abstract] |  |
Revenue | 104,021,000 us-gaap_LandSales | 11,028,000 us-gaap_LandSales
Retail Land Sales, Installment Method, Gross Profit, Deferred |  |
Expense | (89,944,000)us-gaap_CostsOfRealEstateServicesAndLandSales | (4,770,000)us-gaap_CostsOfRealEstateServicesAndLandSales
Land sales, net | 4,817,000 tol_Landsalesearningsnet | 6,258,000 tol_Landsalesearningsnet
Gibraltar [Member] |  |
Other Nonoperating Income By Component [Line Items] |  |
Gibraltar | $ 822,000 us-gaap_RealEstatePartnershipInvestmentSubsidiariesNetIncomeLossBeforeTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = tol_GibraltarMember | $ 4,332,000 us-gaap_RealEstatePartnershipInvestmentSubsidiariesNetIncomeLossBeforeTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = tol_GibraltarMember

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