Rental market data · 31 Ontario communities
What purpose-built apartments rented for and how many stood empty in October 2025, from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, beside who rents in each municipality from the 2021 Census. One row per community on Tenant.ca’s management pages.
What the table shows
The highest average rent across all unit sizes in October 2025 was $2,205, in Oakville; the lowest was $1,236, in the City of Windsor. Ontario's average for centres of 10,000 people or more was $1,727.
Vacancy ran from 1.8% in Pickering, Ajax and Uxbridge to 5.1% in Chatham, against 3.2% across Ontario's larger centres.
In the 2021 Census, Toronto had the largest share of households renting, 48.1%, and Vaughan the smallest, 14.1%.
The figures
Rents and vacancy describe CMHC’s survey area for each community, which can be a city, a zone or a wider region; two communities can share one. The census columns describe the municipality. Each community links to its page, where the sources are linked.
| Community | CMHC survey area | Vacancy, Oct 2025 | Two-bedroom rent | Rent, all sizes | Households renting, 2021 | Renters' median shelter cost, 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax | Pickering, Ajax and Uxbridge | 1.8% | $1,749 | $1,770 | 16.5% | $1,600 |
| Aurora | Aurora, Newmarket and Whitchurch-Stouffville | Not shown | $2,204 | $2,077 | 18.8% | $1,800 |
| Brampton | Brampton (zones 21–22) | 4.4% | $2,032 | $1,940 | 21.9% | $1,520 |
| Brantford | Brantford census metropolitan area | 3.5% | $1,619 | $1,554 | 34.0% | $1,130 |
| Burlington | Burlington | 2.0% | $2,057 | $1,982 | 24.9% | $1,660 |
| Chatham | Chatham | 5.1% | $1,478 | $1,368 | 28.0% | $870 |
| Etobicoke | Etobicoke (zones 5–7) | 2.1% | $2,031 | $1,959 | See Toronto | See Toronto |
| Hamilton | City of Hamilton | 4.2% | $1,511 | $1,423 | 34.3% | $1,120 |
| Kitchener | City of Kitchener | 4.7% | $1,748 | $1,626 | 40.3% | $1,300 |
| Listowel | North Perth, the municipality that includes Listowel | Not shown | $1,247 | $1,300 | 28.7% | $1,080 |
| London | City of London | 4.0% | $1,657 | $1,543 | 41.9% | $1,130 |
| Markham | Markham (zone 27) | Not shown | $1,996 | $1,942 | 18.3% | $1,940 |
| Milton | Milton and Halton Hills | 1.8% | $1,667 | $1,600 | 17.4% | $2,200 |
| Mississauga | Mississauga (zones 18–20) | 3.9% | $2,005 | $1,898 | 29.6% | $1,600 |
| Newmarket | Aurora, Newmarket and Whitchurch-Stouffville | Not shown | $2,204 | $2,077 | 24.2% | $1,510 |
| North York | North York (zones 13–17) | 2.6% | $1,915 | $1,848 | See Toronto | See Toronto |
| Oakville | Oakville | 2.5%* | $2,337 | $2,205 | 22.5% | $2,040 |
| Oshawa | City of Oshawa | 4.1% | $1,771 | $1,724 | 35.8% | $1,300 |
| Pickering | Pickering, Ajax and Uxbridge | 1.8% | $1,749 | $1,770 | 14.8% | $1,720 |
| Richmond Hill | Richmond Hill, Vaughan and King (zone 25) | 2.4% | $1,827 | $1,726 | 21.8% | $1,860 |
| Sarnia | Sarnia census agglomeration | 4.7% | $1,524 | $1,415 | 31.8% | $990 |
| Scarborough | Scarborough (zones 10–12) | 2.4% | $1,832 | $1,764 | See Toronto | See Toronto |
| St. Catharines | City of St. Catharines | 2.4% | $1,626 | $1,529 | 35.6% | $1,100 |
| Tillsonburg | Tillsonburg | 4.5% | $1,308 | $1,267 | 29.2% | $1,000 |
| Toronto | City of Toronto (zones 1–17) | 2.8% | $2,055 | $1,912 | 48.1% | $1,500 |
| Vaughan | Richmond Hill, Vaughan and King (zone 25) | 2.4% | $1,827 | $1,726 | 14.1% | $2,040 |
| Waterloo | City of Waterloo | 3.4% | $1,917 | $1,865 | 38.7% | $1,400 |
| Welland | Welland | 3.9%* | $1,493 | $1,331 | 31.0% | $1,020 |
| Whitby | Whitby | 2.5% | $1,673 | $1,634 | 17.9% | $1,430 |
| Windsor | City of Windsor | 4.0% | $1,363 | $1,236 | 37.5% | $950 |
| Woodstock | Woodstock census agglomeration | 2.8% | $1,679 | $1,602 | 34.8% | $1,190 |
* Vacancy for a wider area than the rents: Oakville, Halton Region, because CMHC rates its Oakville estimate as poor; Welland, the St. Catharines-Niagara census metropolitan area, because CMHC does not publish a rate for Welland alone. Census figures for Chatham are for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent and Listowel are for the Municipality of North Perth. Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke are parts of the City of Toronto, not census subdivisions. “Not shown” means CMHC suppressed the estimate or rated it poor.
Sources: CMHC Rental Market Survey, October 2025, data tables published December 2025 (CMHC); Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile, read through Statistics Canada’s Census Profile API on October 22, 2026. Rents are averages for occupied and vacant units in purpose-built rental buildings, so they usually sit below what a vacant unit is advertised for. For advertised rents in nine GTA markets, see the GTA asking-rent samples.
