Housing in Oakville

Oakville has the highest median household income in the GTA and a housing stock to match: fifty-nine per cent detached, nearly half of all dwellings with four bedrooms or more, and a fifth built since 2010. Eight per cent predates 1961, mostly in the older lakeside quarters where the land is worth more than what is standing on it, and where the teardown is a normal transaction rather than an unusual one.

A split-rail fence along a meadow in Bronte Creek Provincial Park — Bronte Creek Provincial ParkMustang Joe, CC0

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People: 213,759
Households: 73,560
Median dwelling value: $1.2M
Median household income: $128K

What stands out about Oakville

The median dwelling value is $1,200,000, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at $900,000.
17% of its dwellings are condominium, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 11%.
The median household income is $128,000, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at $118,000.

What is built here

Detached house: 59%43,130
Semi-detached house: 5%3,310
Row house: 17%12,470
Duplex: 1%950
Apartment, under five storeys: 6%4,680
Apartment, five storeys or more: 12%8,955

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 7%5,095
Two bedrooms: 15%10,885
Three bedrooms: 32%23,715
Four or more bedrooms: 46%33,565

When it was built

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

1960 or before: 8%5,950
1961 to 1980: 19%13,935
1981 to 2000: 35%25,510
2001 to 2010: 20%14,535
2011 to 2021: 19%13,630

What to check before you buy in Oakville

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.

What it costs to live here

Owner monthly shelter cost: $2,080
Renter monthly shelter cost: $2,040
Owners with a mortgage: 61%
Households renting: 22%

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%46,305
Public transit: 7%3,850
Walked: 4%2,020

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.