Housing in Toronto
Toronto is the only municipality in the region where most households rent and most dwellings are apartments: forty-seven per cent of everything here is in a building of five storeys or more, and only twenty-three per cent is a detached house. It is also the oldest housing stock in the GTA, with twenty-nine per cent built before 1961, which is why the questions that matter here are about wiring, plumbing and what a previous owner did without a permit.
- People
- 2,794,356
- Households
- 1,160,895
- Median dwelling value
- $900K
- Median household income
- $84K
What stands out about Toronto
- 23% of its dwellings are detached houses, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 60%.
- 48% of its households rent, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 18%.
- 17% of its dwellings have four or more bedrooms, lower than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 45%.
- 26% of its commuters travel by transit, higher than the middle of the 23 municipalities of the GTA at 5%.
What is built here
- Detached house
- Semi-detached house
- Row house
- Duplex
- Apartment, under five storeys
- Apartment, five storeys or more
And how many bedrooms it has
- One bedroom
- Two bedrooms
- Three bedrooms
- Four or more bedrooms
When it was built
The most useful line on this page. Almost everything a home inspection turns up in Toronto is a function of the decade the house went up in, and so is most of what an insurer asks about.
- 1960 or before
- 1961 to 1980
- 1981 to 2000
- 2001 to 2010
- 2011 to 2021
What to check before you buy in Toronto
Raised by the housing stock above, not by any particular house. Each one is a question to ask rather than a problem to expect.
- The building's age, not just the unit'sA renovated unit in a building that has not repiped or done its garage membrane is a renovated unit with a special assessment coming. Ask what major work the building has completed, and what its engineer's reserve fund study says is next.
What it costs to live here
- Owner monthly shelter cost
- $1,740
- Renter monthly shelter cost
- $1,500
- Owners with a mortgage
- 57%
- Households renting
- 48%
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
- Public transit
- Walked
- Bicycle
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.
