Housing in Richmond Hill

Richmond Hill splits cleanly between fifty-seven per cent detached houses and a fifth in towers along Yonge Street, with very little in between. Four in ten dwellings went up between 1981 and 2000. If you are shopping here you are choosing between two separate markets that share a postal code, and the due diligence for each has almost nothing in common with the other.

Rooftops in Richmond Hill under a sky of mackerel cloud at sunset — Rooftops at sunsetDavid Zhang, CC BY-SA 2.0

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People: 202,022
Households: 69,315
Median dwelling value: $1.2M
Median household income: $102K

What stands out about Richmond Hill

The median dwelling value is $1,200,000, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at $900,000.
19% of its dwellings are in buildings of five storeys or more, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 7%.
The median household income is $102,000, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at $118,000.
20% of its dwellings are condominium, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 11%.

What is built here

Detached house: 57%39,295
Semi-detached house: 4%2,665
Row house: 15%10,505
Duplex: 3%2,135
Apartment, under five storeys: 2%1,695
Apartment, five storeys or more: 19%12,960

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 11%7,335
Two bedrooms: 14%9,475
Three bedrooms: 27%18,775
Four or more bedrooms: 48%33,410

When it was built

The most useful line on this page. Almost everything a home inspection turns up in Richmond Hill 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%3,495
1961 to 1980: 10%6,970
1981 to 2000: 41%28,090
2001 to 2010: 26%18,255
2011 to 2021: 18%12,505

What to check before you buy in Richmond Hill

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: $2,020
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,860
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: 87%47,930
Public transit: 8%4,385
Walked: 3%1,435

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.