Housing in Clarington

Clarington is seventy-eight per cent detached and eighty-six per cent owner-occupied, the most of any Durham municipality, spread across several separate communities rather than one built-up area. A third of everything standing went up between 1981 and 2000, but a meaningful share is rural, older and on private services. Which of those two markets a listing belongs to changes the inspection completely.

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People: 101,427
Households: 35,950
Median dwelling value: $750K
Median household income: $112K

What stands out about Clarington

78% of its dwellings are detached houses, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 60%.
35% of its dwellings have four or more bedrooms, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 45%.
The median dwelling value is $750,000, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at $900,000.

What is built here

Detached house: 78%27,945
Semi-detached house: 3%1,075
Row house: 9%3,125
Duplex: 3%910
Apartment, under five storeys: 6%2,290
Apartment, five storeys or more: 1%525

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 5%1,875
Two bedrooms: 14%5,080
Three bedrooms: 45%16,175
Four or more bedrooms: 35%12,750

When it was built

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

1960 or before: 13%4,495
1961 to 1980: 15%5,240
1981 to 2000: 36%12,945
2001 to 2010: 18%6,545
2011 to 2021: 19%6,725

What to check before you buy in Clarington

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.

What it costs to live here

Owner monthly shelter cost: $1,780
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,590
Owners with a mortgage: 69%
Households renting: 14%

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: 93%34,305
Public transit: 2%790
Walked: 2%875

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.