Rent data · Milton
Average rent in Milton
Every rent figure on this site comes from a public survey, with its geography and period attached. There is no listing data here — and no neighbourhood-level rent, because no public source measures rent at that scale.
October 2025 averages
What this figure is, in Milton
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.
There is a deeper reason the numbers are thin. CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings, and Milton has very few. Most rental housing here is a basement suite, a rented townhouse or a condominium unit, none of which the survey counts — which is why several cells in the zone table are suppressed outright.
One census figure is worth carrying with you. Of the renter households Milton does have, 41.1% spent 30% or more of their income on shelter in 2021 — more than two in five, in a town where renting is already the minority tenure. Scarce supply and Toronto-area pricing meet here, and that number is where they land.
CMHC Rental Market Survey (October of each year), via Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0133-01. Figures are the average rent of occupied row and apartment structures of three units and over in the Toronto census metropolitan area (which contains Milton) — not advertised rents, and not specific to any one neighbourhood or school.
How it has moved
The last 8 survey years for the Toronto census metropolitan area (which contains Milton).
| Year | Bachelor | One bedroom | Two bedroom | Three bedroom + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,491 | $1,761 | $2,045 | $2,294 |
| 2024 | $1,448 | $1,715 | $1,972 | $2,185 |
| 2023 | $1,414 | $1,691 | $1,958 | $2,168 |
| 2022 | $1,305 | $1,526 | $1,779 | $2,015 |
| 2021 | $1,217 | $1,439 | $1,680 | $1,918 |
| 2020 | $1,204 | $1,421 | $1,637 | $1,854 |
| 2019 | $1,142 | $1,361 | $1,563 | $1,730 |
| 2018 | $1,081 | $1,261 | $1,468 | $1,647 |
Bachelor
+59.1%
$937 in 2015 → $1,491 in 2025
One bedroom
+59.7%
$1,103 in 2015 → $1,761 in 2025
Two bedroom
+59%
$1,286 in 2015 → $2,045 in 2025
Milton's own survey zone
CMHC does not publish a separate survey area for Milton. The smallest geography it does publish that contains the town is Zone 29 — Milton/Halton Hills, inside the Toronto CMA. Suppressed cells are shown as such — CMHC withholds a figure when the sample is too small to publish.
| Unit size | Milton/Halton Hills | Data quality | Toronto CMA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor | Suppressed | — | $1,491 |
| One bedroom | $1,516 | b — very good | $1,761 |
| Two bedroom | $1,667 | b — very good | $2,046 |
| Three bedroom + | Suppressed | — | — |
The zone pairs Milton with Halton Hills, so its figures describe both. Where CMHC marks a figure “poor”, treat it as a rough indication only.
Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey — Rental Market Report data tables, Toronto CMA, Table 1.1.2, October 2025. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Quality codes are CMHC’s own.
Who rents in Milton
The 2021 Census counted every household, not just purpose-built buildings — so this is the fullest picture of renting in the city, even though it is a few years old.
Affordability, as StatCan measures it
Source: 2021 Census of Population — Statistics Canada Table 98-10-0255-01. Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Shelter cost includes rent plus utilities; the 30% threshold is StatCan's affordability indicator for private households with income greater than zero.
By unit size
1-bedroom
1-bedroom rent in Milton
One-bedroom rentals are the scarcest size in Milton, because the town has little purpose-built apartment stock. Most of what exists is a basement suite or a unit in one of the newer condominium buildings.
2-bedroom
2-bedroom rent in Milton
Two-bedroom rentals in Milton are mostly condominium apartments and townhouse units rather than units in rental buildings, so condominium rules and parking allocations matter as much as the rent itself.
3-bedroom
3-bedroom rent in Milton
Three-bedroom rentals here are usually whole townhouses or detached houses let by their owner. They are the size Milton actually has the most of, which is unusual — in most Ontario markets the three-bedroom rental is the rare one.
Where renters live in Milton
The survey has no neighbourhood detail, but the census does: these are the areas with the highest share of renter households.
What this page will not tell you
- What a specific home rents for today. Survey averages lag the market and describe occupied units.
- Rent in one neighbourhood or near one school. No public source measures rent at that geography, so this site does not publish one.
- Whether anything is available. Availability lives with listings, not with survey data.
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Where this page’s data comes from
- 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.
- CMHC Rental Market Survey — Housing Market Information Portal (opens Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) in a new tab) — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). October 2024 and October 2025 surveys. Updated annual. Open Government Licence – Canada (the Housing Market Information Portal is registered on open.canada.ca under this licence) (opens Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey.
- 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.
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