Milton, Ontario

Renting in Dempsey

Dempsey is a 2.2 km² area of Milton, home to about 9,879 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mostly owner-occupied area: 13.7% of households rented their home, and 22.6% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 3 schools, 4 licensed child care facilities, 6 parks, 31 transit stops.

2.2 km²9,879 residents (2021)3 schools31 transit stops

The boundary this page uses

Boundary and area name published by the Town of Milton.

Everything counted below — schools, licensed child care, parks, transit stops — is counted inside that boundary, so the figures describe Dempsey rather than a radius around a point.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Milton. Layer retrieved September 4, 2026.

Who lives here

From the 12 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

9,879

Residents (2021)

13.7%

Households that rent

86.6% own

22.6%

Homes that are apartments

$123,000

Median household income

2020 income, 2021 Census

73.3%

Households with children

36.3

Median age

3.2

Average household size

Age profile

0 - 4 years old555 · 5.6%
5 - 9 years old670 · 6.8%
10 - 19 years old1,635 · 16.6%
20 - 34 years old1,935 · 19.6%
35 - 49 years old2,590 · 26.3%
50 - 54 years old735 · 7.5%
55 - 64 years old860 · 8.7%
65 - 69 years old295 · 3%
70 - 79 years old435 · 4.4%
80 - 84 years old95 · 1%
85+ years old55 · 0.6%

How Dempsey compares with Milton

13.7% of households in Dempsey rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 17.4% across Milton — close to the city as a whole, so the mix of owners and renters here is unremarkable for Milton.

Both figures are the share of households that rent, from the 2021 Census. The Dempsey figure is aggregated from the dissemination areas inside the boundary; the Milton figure is the city-wide count Statistics Canada publishes. Census figures describe 2021, and neighbourhoods change — treat them as context rather than as today’s market.

Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2021. Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Sum (population, age bands) or population-weighted mean (rates, medians) of the 2021 dissemination areas whose centre lies inside the municipal boundary.

Schools

3 publicly funded schools sit inside the boundary. Being inside an area is not the same as being assigned to it — attendance areas are set by the boards and must be checked per address.

Just outside the boundary

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Licensed child care

4 licensed facilities are located inside the boundary. A licence is not a vacancy — contact operators directly about waiting lists and fees.

Facility	Type	Programmes
Brightpath Milton1120 Maple Avenue	Child Care Centre	Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Chris Hadfield Before And After School Program1114 Woodward Avenue	Child Care Centre	Before school, After school
The Family Place - Milton1120 Main Street	Child Care Centre	Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Milton St. Peter Ymca Child Care Centre137 Dixon Drive	Child Care Centre	Full Day(6 hours or more in a day), Before school, After school

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, Licensed child care facilities in Ontario (31 July 2026 snapshot); locations matched to the Town of Milton’s open address register. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Parks, transit and public facilities

Counted inside the boundary from the Town of Milton's own open data.

Parks inside the boundary

24.8 hectares in total

Milton Transit stops

1.4 km

Nearest GO station

Milton GO

Largest green spaces

LIONS SPORTS PARK · 17.8 ha
DEMPSEY NEIGHBOURHOOD PARK · 4.7 ha
FITZGERALD PARK · 0.8 ha
SINCLAIR PARK · 0.8 ha
KNIGHT TRAIL PARK · 0.5 ha
SPRUCEDALE PARK · 0.2 ha

Public facilities inside the boundary

Arts Centre: FIRST ONTARIO ARTS CENTRE MILTON — 1010 MAIN ST E
Sports Facility: MILTON MEMORIAL ARENA — 77 THOMPSON ROAD S
Sports Facility: MILTON LEISURE CENTRE — 1100 MAIN STREET E
Library: MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - MAIN BRANCH — 1010 MAIN ST E

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Milton.

Renting in Dempsey

Milton Transit runs the local bus network, much of it oriented towards Milton GO at peak times. The Milton GO corridor has historically concentrated service in weekday peak-direction trips, so check the current timetable against the trips you actually make. Highway 401 runs along the town's southern edge, and the escarpment limits routes to the west.

Before you sign

Walk the block at the hour you would actually come home. Check what is included in the rent, how utilities are billed, what parking costs, and where the nearest stop for the trips you make daily is. Ontario’s standard lease and the Residential Tenancies Act apply here as everywhere in the province — the renter guide covers what to check.

Common questions

Do many people rent in Dempsey?

At the 2021 Census, 13.7% of households in Dempsey were renters and 22.6% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 12 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Milton as a whole.

Which schools are in Dempsey?

3 publicly funded schools sit inside the boundary: St. Peter Catholic Elementary School, Chris Hadfield Public School, Bishop Paul Francis Reding Catholic Secondary School. Being inside the area is not the same as being assigned to it — attendance areas are set by the school boards and must be checked per address.

How is transit in Dempsey?

31 Milton Transit stops are inside the boundary, and Milton GO is about 1.4 km away in a straight line. Check the actual trip at the times you travel — stop counts say nothing about frequency.

What green space does Dempsey have?

The municipality's parks layer records 6 parks inside the boundary, about 24.8 hectares in total, plus roughly 11.7 km of mapped trails.

Nearby neighbourhoods

Straight-line distance between the centres of each municipal boundary.

Keep researching

Where this page’s data comes from

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.
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.
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.
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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