Milton, Ontario
Milton rentals, researched.
School profiles, neighbourhood data and rent surveys for Milton — every figure with its source, year and licence attached. No listings, no estimates, no scores.
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Rent: CMHC Rental Market Survey via Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0133-01 — the average rent of occupied purpose-built rental apartments, not advertised rents. Tenure: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2021.
Renting in Milton
Milton is a town of new streets against an old landscape. The Niagara Escarpment rises immediately to the west, and everything east of it has been built out at remarkable speed — a grid of subdivisions with names like Beaty, Clarke, Coates, Ford, Harrison, Scott and Willmott, most of them younger than the people renting in them.
The defining fact for a renter is scarcity of a particular kind. Only about one household in six here rents, the lowest share of the three towns and cities this network covers, and Milton has very little purpose-built rental housing. What exists is mostly secondary suites inside houses, rented freehold and condominium townhouses, and a small number of apartment buildings — which means supply is dispersed among individual owners rather than concentrated in buildings you can call.
That shapes everything downstream. Listings appear and disappear quickly, terms vary far more between landlords than between neighbourhoods, and the public rent statistics are thin because the survey that produces them measures purpose-built apartments — of which Milton has few.
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Neighbourhoods
Compare 19 areas of Milton
Twenty areas, from Old Milton’s pre-war grid to subdivisions built in the last decade and three rural hamlets. Compare what is actually inside each Town boundary.
Schools
Look up any Milton school
Two Halton boards plus provincial schools serving students from across Ontario. Look up grades, enrolment, contacts and EQAO results for any of the 44.
Rent data
What average rent actually measures
There is no CMHC survey for Milton alone. See what the Toronto-area and Milton/Halton Hills zone figures do and do not tell you about renting here.
Neighbourhoods where renting is common
Ordered by the share of households that rented at the 2021 Census.
45.6% of households rent
Old Milton
- 3,398 residents
- 3 schools
- 6 parks
28.3% of households rent
Ford
- 11,671 residents
- 4 schools
- 4 parks
25% of households rent
Willmott
- 12,043 residents
- 3 schools
- 5 parks
21.4% of households rent
Trafalgar
- 991 residents
- 2 parks
18.2% of households rent
Bronte Meadows
- 2,295 residents
- 2 schools
- 2 parks
18% of households rent
Cobban
- 5,889 residents
- 2 schools
- 1 parks
Average rent, latest survey
CMHC surveys occupied purpose-built rental apartments each October. These are Toronto census metropolitan area (which contains Milton) figures — the smallest geography the survey publishes for Milton.
How to read these figures, and what they cannot tell you →
One number, in context
A two-bedroom in the Toronto census metropolitan area averaged $2,045 in October 2025, up 3.7% from $1,972 a year earlier.
Milton has no rent survey of its own. CMHC reports it inside the Toronto census metropolitan area, an area that stretches from Oshawa to Burlington and is dominated by rents nothing like the town’s, and inside a smaller survey zone that pairs Milton with Halton Hills. Both are published here; neither is a Milton figure.
Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey (October of each year), via Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0133-01. Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Guides
Guide
The Milton renter guide
What to check before you sign, and the rules that apply in Ontario.
Guide
Moving to Milton
Getting oriented: where things are, how people get around, what to set up first.
Guide
Renting with children
Schools, child care and the questions worth asking before a lease.
Rent data
One-bedroom rent
Method
Every source, licence and limitation
Where this page’s data comes from
- School information and student demographics, 2024–2025 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. 2024–2025 school year. Updated annual (the ministry lists the dataset as updated monthly; a new school year is added once a year). Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
- Town of Milton Open Data — Neighbourhoods, Hamlets, Parks, Transit stops, Trails, Town Facilities, Schools, Address points (opens Town of Milton in a new tab) — Town of Milton. Layers as published (updated daily by the Town; edit dates recorded per layer in the raw manifest). Updated continuous; refetched on each data build. Open Government Licence – Milton (v2.0) (opens Town of Milton in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Milton.
- CMHC average rents for areas with a population of 10,000 and over (Table 34-10-0133-01) (opens Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey) in a new tab) — Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey). October 2023, 2024 and 2025 surveys. Updated annual (each survey is released in the following winter). Retrieved September 4, 2026. Statistics Canada Open Licence (opens Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey) in a new tab)Source: Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0133-01 (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey). Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- Census 2021 — shelter cost and tenure by census subdivision (Tables 98-10-0254-01 and 98-10-0255-01) (opens Statistics Canada in a new tab) — Statistics Canada. 2021 Census (May 2021). Updated every five years. Statistics Canada Open Licence (opens Statistics Canada in a new tab)Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2021 (Tables 98-10-0254-01 and 98-10-0255-01). Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- Census 2021 — dissemination-area profiles (opens Statistics Canada in a new tab) — Statistics Canada. 2021 Census. Updated every five years. Statistics Canada Open Licence (opens Statistics Canada in a new tab)Source: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- Licensed child care facilities in Ontario, July 2026 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. 31 July 2026 snapshot. Updated monthly. Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
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