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Housing in Caledon

Caledon is eighty-one per cent detached houses and the least dense municipality in the region, which means a large share of what sells here is on a private well and a septic system rather than on municipal services. Those two things are the whole inspection: a well needs a water test and a flow test, and a septic bed has a life. Nine in ten households own, and more than half of dwellings have four bedrooms or more.

The red shale hills of the Cheltenham Badlands under a low sun
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People
76,581
Households
23,700
Median dwelling value
$1M
Median household income
$133K

What stands out about Caledon

  • 81% of its dwellings are detached houses, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 60%.
  • The median household income is $133,000, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at $118,000.
  • 11% of its households rent, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 18%.
  • 52% of its dwellings have four or more bedrooms, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 45%.

What is built here

Detached house
81%19,120
Semi-detached house
7%1,650
Row house
8%1,825
Duplex
1%335
Apartment, under five storeys
2%480
Apartment, five storeys or more
1%255

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom
3%725
Two bedrooms
7%1,705
Three bedrooms
38%9,000
Four or more bedrooms
52%12,215

When it was built

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

1960 or before
10%2,465
1961 to 1980
20%4,650
1981 to 2000
34%7,995
2001 to 2010
15%3,505
2011 to 2021
21%5,075

What to check before you buy in Caledon

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

  • 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.
  • New enough to still be under warrantyA fifth or more of the housing here has gone up since 2011, so some of it is still inside the Tarion new home warranty period. The warranty follows the home rather than the first buyer, and what it still covers depends on the date of possession, not the date you buy.

What it costs to live here

Owner monthly shelter cost
$2,040
Renter monthly shelter cost
$1,740
Owners with a mortgage
64%
Households renting
11%

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
95%26,200
Public transit
1%340
Walked
2%460

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.

Looking at houses in Caledon?

Save the ones you see, keep what you thought while you were standing in them, and compare them later without trying to remember which house was which. A page of statistics tells you what to ask; a board is where the answers end up.

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