Housing in Meadowvale, Mississauga

Meadowvale is a 1970s planned community and reads like one: half of everything standing went up between 1961 and 1980, four in ten dwellings are detached, another fifth are rows, and half of all dwellings have exactly three bedrooms. Eight in ten households own. A quarter of the stock is condominium, mostly townhouse complexes, so the same street can hold a freehold row house and a condominium one that look identical from the road and are bought completely differently.

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People: 35,915
Households: 12,345
Median dwelling value: $800K

What stands out about Meadowvale

20% of its households rent, in line with the middle of Mississauga's 39 neighbourhoods at 29%.
43% of its dwellings are detached houses, in line with the middle of Mississauga's 39 neighbourhoods at 32%.

What is built here

Detached house: 43%5,250
Semi-detached house: 14%1,695
Row house: 21%2,645
Duplex: 2%255
Apartment, under five storeys: 7%835
Apartment, five storeys or more: 13%1,665

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 7%870
Two bedrooms: 13%1,640
Three bedrooms: 50%6,225
Four or more bedrooms: 29%3,585

When it was built

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

1960 or before: 2%300
1961 to 1980: 49%6,080
1981 to 2000: 45%5,530
2001 to 2010: 3%355
2011 to 2021: 1%80

What to check before you buy in Meadowvale

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

Aluminum branch wiringMuch of this neighbourhood went up between 1961 and 1980, and aluminum branch wiring was common in houses built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is not a reason to walk away, but it is a reason to have an electrician look, because insurers ask about it by name.
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.

What it costs to live here

Owner monthly shelter cost: $1,840
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,620
Owners with a mortgage: 66%
Households renting: 20%

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: 85%10,055
Public transit: 9%1,045
Walked: 2%280

Where these numbers come from

the 2021 Census of Population, tabulated by the City of Mississauga as 2021 Census Data - By Neighbourhoods, with neighbourhood names and boundaries from Mississauga Official Plan (2010) Character Area and City Structure. Retrieved September 20, 2026. The figures are published under the Statistics Canada Open Licence and the boundaries under the City of Mississauga Open Data Terms of Use.

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.