Housing in East Gwillimbury
East Gwillimbury is eighty-one per cent detached and has grown faster than almost anywhere in the region, with a fifth of everything standing built since 2010 next to a rural stock where one dwelling in ten predates 1961. That split is the whole market: a new subdivision house and a century farmhouse a concession road apart are priced against each other and inspected completely differently.
- People
- 34,637
- Households
- 11,450
- Median dwelling value
- $1M
- Median household income
- $119K
What stands out about East Gwillimbury
- 37% of its housing has gone up since 2011, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 18%.
- 81% of its dwellings are detached houses, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 60%.
- 54% of its dwellings have four or more bedrooms, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 45%.
- 1% of its dwellings are condominium, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 11%.
What is built here
- Detached house
- Semi-detached house
- Row house
- Duplex
- Apartment, under five storeys
And how many bedrooms it has
- One bedroom
- Two bedrooms
- Three bedrooms
- Four or more bedrooms
When it was built
The most useful line on this page. Almost everything a home inspection turns up in East Gwillimbury is a function of the decade the house went up in, and so is most of what an insurer asks about.
- 1960 or before
- 1961 to 1980
- 1981 to 2000
- 2001 to 2010
- 2011 to 2021
What to check before you buy in East Gwillimbury
Raised by the housing stock above, not by any particular house. Each one is a question to ask rather than a problem to expect.
- 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
- $2,140
- Renter monthly shelter cost
- $2,160
- Owners with a mortgage
- 68%
- Households renting
- 16%
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
- Public transit
- Walked
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.