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Housing in Milton

Milton is the newest municipality in the GTA by a wide margin: nearly three quarters of everything standing went up after 2000, and a third of it since 2011. Fifty-seven per cent are detached and nearly a quarter are row houses, which is a high share and reflects how recently it was planned. Almost nothing here is old enough for the inspection questions the rest of this region turns on.

Hilton Falls in the woods on the Niagara Escarpment before sunset
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People
132,979
Households
40,035
Median dwelling value
$950K
Median household income
$126K

What stands out about Milton

  • 34% of its housing has gone up since 2011, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 18%.

What is built here

Detached house
57%22,720
Semi-detached house
9%3,755
Row house
23%9,140
Duplex
1%295
Apartment, under five storeys
5%1,920
Apartment, five storeys or more
5%2,185

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom
5%1,810
Two bedrooms
12%4,815
Three bedrooms
41%16,505
Four or more bedrooms
42%16,805

When it was built

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

1960 or before
5%2,165
1961 to 1980
13%5,385
1981 to 2000
8%3,270
2001 to 2010
39%15,430
2011 to 2021
34%13,785

What to check before you buy in Milton

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.
  • 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.
  • 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
$2,320
Renter monthly shelter cost
$2,200
Owners with a mortgage
79%
Households renting
17%

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
91%35,790
Public transit
4%1,465
Walked
2%910

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 Milton?

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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