Housing in Halton Hills

Halton Hills is seventy-three per cent detached across two old towns and a lot of countryside, and it has the second-oldest housing stock in Halton at a fifth built before 1961. A rural property here usually means a private well and a septic system, and an in-town one usually means a century of alterations. Both are worth an inspector who has seen that kind of house before.

The main street in Georgetown, with the library and a church spire behind it — Main Street, GeorgetownJFVoll, CC BY-SA 4.0

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People: 62,951
Households: 21,825
Median dwelling value: $900K
Median household income: $127K

What stands out about Halton Hills

9% of its housing has gone up since 2011, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 18%.
73% of its dwellings are detached houses, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 60%.
20% of its housing was built before 1961, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 10%.

What is built here

Detached house: 73%15,940
Semi-detached house: 4%905
Row house: 9%2,005
Duplex: 2%540
Apartment, under five storeys: 7%1,530
Apartment, five storeys or more: 4%885

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 6%1,220
Two bedrooms: 12%2,590
Three bedrooms: 40%8,650
Four or more bedrooms: 43%9,320

When it was built

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

1960 or before: 20%4,365
1961 to 1980: 26%5,745
1981 to 2000: 26%5,630
2001 to 2010: 18%4,010
2011 to 2021: 9%2,070

What to check before you buy in Halton Hills

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: $1,880
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,320
Owners with a mortgage: 65%
Households renting: 15%

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%21,250
Public transit: 1%310
Walked: 3%770

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.