Housing in Trinity-Bellwoods, Toronto

Trinity-Bellwoods has almost no towers and almost no detached houses. It is a neighbourhood of semis, rows and small walk-up buildings, two thirds of them built before 1961, on lots narrow enough that an addition goes up rather than out. Expect party walls, and expect to be asked about them.

A red brick Victorian house on a narrow lot, with a lane beside it

Stone gateposts at a park entrance on a busy street

Brick storefronts with flats above them, a streetcar in the distance

Shaw StreetDillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Trinity Bellwoods gates, on Queen Street WestDillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ossington AvenueDillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licence shown with each one. A photograph is here because it was taken inside this neighbourhood's boundary or because its own page names this neighbourhood or its main street, and because somebody looked at it.

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People: 15,415
Households: 6,845
Median dwelling value: $1.4M
Median household income: $92K

What stands out about Trinity-Bellwoods

68% of its housing was built before 1961, higher than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at 29%.
The median dwelling value is $1,400,000, higher than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at $900,000.
7% of its dwellings are in buildings of five storeys or more, lower than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at 36%.
5% of its dwellings are detached houses, lower than the middle of Toronto's 158 neighbourhoods at 26%.

What is built here

Detached house: 5%375
Semi-detached house: 11%750
Row house: 14%980
Duplex: 11%735
Apartment, under five storeys: 47%3,220
Apartment, five storeys or more: 7%465

And how many bedrooms it has

One bedroom: 25%1,705
Two bedrooms: 25%1,700
Three bedrooms: 27%1,880
Four or more bedrooms: 20%1,400

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: 68%4,630
1961 to 1980: 13%855
1981 to 2000: 7%505
2001 to 2010: 5%370
2011 to 2021: 7%485

What to check before you buy in Trinity-Bellwoods

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

Wiring, and what the insurer will say about itA large share of the housing here was built before 1961, which is the stock where knob and tube wiring turns up. Some insurers will not bind a policy on it, and finding that out after the offer is firm is expensive. Ask what the panel is, whether the house has been rewired, and get the answer before the financing condition comes off.
The supply line into the houseHouses of this age often still have the original galvanized supply line, which narrows with age and shows up as poor pressure upstairs. Replacing it is a road cut and a permit, not an afternoon. Run a tap on the top floor while something else is running downstairs.
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: $1,410
Renter monthly shelter cost: $1,700
Owners with a mortgage: 49%
Households renting: 44%

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: 41%1,645
Public transit: 23%925
Walked: 20%810
Bicycle: 11%425

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.