Housing in Burlington

Burlington is the oldest housing stock in Halton, with fourteen per cent built before 1961 and a third between 1961 and 1980, and the most apartment-heavy: eighteen per cent of dwellings are in buildings of five storeys or more and a quarter of everything is condominium. Half are detached. It has the shortest commutes in the region and the fewest transit users, which tells you most of what you need to know about how it is laid out.

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People: 186,948
Households: 73,180
Median dwelling value: $900K
Median household income: $110K

What stands out about Burlington

29% of its dwellings have four or more bedrooms, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 45%.
9% of its housing has gone up since 2011, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 18%.
24% of its dwellings are condominium, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 11%.
50% of its dwellings are detached houses, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 60%.

What is built here

Detached house: 50%36,795
Semi-detached house: 4%3,090
Row house: 19%13,725
Duplex: 1%705
Apartment, under five storeys: 8%5,910
Apartment, five storeys or more: 18%12,830

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 11%8,125
Two bedrooms: 22%16,115
Three bedrooms: 37%27,395
Four or more bedrooms: 29%21,410

When it was built

The most useful line on this page. Almost everything a home inspection turns up in Burlington is a function of the decade the house went up in, and so is most of what an insurer asks about.

1960 or before: 14%10,220
1961 to 1980: 33%24,485
1981 to 2000: 28%20,630
2001 to 2010: 16%11,580
2011 to 2021: 9%6,275

What to check before you buy in Burlington

Raised by the housing stock above, not by any particular house. Each one is a question to ask rather than a problem to expect.

Aluminum branch wiringMuch of this neighbourhood went up between 1961 and 1980, and aluminum branch wiring was common in houses built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is not a reason to walk away, but it is a reason to have an electrician look, because insurers ask about it by name.
Kitec fittings, if it was plumbed in the late 1990s or 2000sA fifth or more of the housing here dates from the years when Kitec plumbing was installed. The fittings are usually brass in orange or blue pipe, most visible under a sink or at the water heater. It was the subject of a class action settlement and it is something a condominium corporation will know about its own building.
What was added, and whether it was permittedIn a neighbourhood this detached, a large share of the houses have been added to or finished below grade at some point. The City's building records will say what was permitted. An unpermitted addition is not automatically a problem to walk away from, but it is a problem to know about rather than inherit.
The party wall and the drainsA fifth or more of the housing here shares a wall with the house next door. Shared walls mean shared sound, sometimes shared drains, and occasionally a shared roof line where one side has been redone and the other has not. Look at both sides of the building from the street and from the lane.

What it costs to live here

Owner monthly shelter cost: $1,720
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,660
Owners with a mortgage: 60%
Households renting: 25%

Shelter cost is the census measure: for an owner it is the mortgage payment, property taxes, condominium fees and utilities together, and for a renter it is rent and utilities. These are medians from 2021, so read them as the shape of the place rather than as a quote.

How people get to work

Car, truck or van: 89%49,885
Public transit: 4%2,415
Walked: 4%2,145
Bicycle: 1%395

Where these numbers come from

the 2021 Census of Population, tabulated by the Statistics Canada as Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population, with neighbourhood names and boundaries from 2021 Census Subdivision Cartographic Boundary File. Retrieved September 20, 2026. The City publishes both packages with their licence recorded as "Statistics Canada Open Licence".

These are aggregate figures for a whole neighbourhood from a census taken in 2021, so they lag the market and they describe no individual home. Housey is not a real estate board and this is not MLS data: for what a specific house is worth today, ask a realtor.