Housing in High Park North, Toronto

High Park North is a rental neighbourhood in a part of the city people think of as houses. Two thirds of households rent, six in ten dwellings sit in a building of five storeys or more, and four in ten dwellings here date from between 1961 and 1980. If you are buying here you are usually buying either one of the few houses or a unit in a mid-century building, and the second of those is a different piece of due diligence: the reserve fund and the state of the risers matter more than anything a home inspector will find inside the unit.

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People: 21,855
Households: 11,095
Median dwelling value: $1.3M
Median household income: $83K

What stands out about High Park North

67% of its households rent, higher than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at 46%.
The median dwelling value is $1,300,000, higher than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at $900,000.
60% of its dwellings are in buildings of five storeys or more, higher than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at 36%.
38% of its commuters travel by transit, higher than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at 26%.

What is built here

Detached house: 12%1,385
Semi-detached house: 6%655
Row house: 1%115
Duplex: 3%340
Apartment, under five storeys: 18%1,975
Apartment, five storeys or more: 60%6,620

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 43%4,795
Two bedrooms: 25%2,800
Three bedrooms: 16%1,755
Four or more bedrooms: 11%1,245

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: 38%4,195
1961 to 1980: 40%4,385
1981 to 2000: 10%1,065
2001 to 2010: 4%485
2011 to 2021: 9%975

What to check before you buy in High Park North

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.
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.
Budget for the inspection, and for what it findsHouseholds here report a higher than usual share of dwellings needing major repairs. In stock of this age that is typically roofs, windows and the back of the house rather than anything structural, but it is the neighbourhood to keep a contingency for rather than to spend on the offer.
Whether the place you are buying has a tenant in itMost households here rent, so a good share of what comes up for sale is tenanted. A tenancy continues after a sale in Ontario, and the rules about a purchaser moving in are specific and worth reading before you write the offer rather than after.

What it costs to live here

Owner monthly shelter cost: $1,700
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,640
Owners with a mortgage: 53%
Households renting: 67%

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: 45%2,585
Public transit: 38%2,165
Walked: 9%490
Bicycle: 5%290

Where these numbers come from

2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada, tabulated by the City of Toronto Open Data as Neighbourhood Profiles, with neighbourhood names and boundaries from Neighbourhoods. Retrieved September 18, 2026. The City publishes both packages with their licence recorded as "License not specified".

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.