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Ontario — Vacancy Rates by Rent Quartile by Metropolitan Areas, Census Agglomerations and Cities

  Vacancy Rate (Q1) Vacancy Rate (Q2) Vacancy Rate (Q3) Vacancy Rate (Q4)
Ontario 1.2 a 2.4 a 4.1 a 5.0 a
Barrie 4.7 c 3.4 d 3.6 c 4.3 b
Belleville - Quinte West 0.3 b 0.8 d ** 4.3 d
Bracebridge T 5.0 d 0.0 d ** **
Brantford 0.3 b 3.0 c 4.2 c 5.8 c
Brighton MU 0.0 d 5.1 a **
Brock TP 0.0 d ** ** **
Brockville ** 0.2 b ** **
Centre Wellington 0.0 d 4.8 d 6.8 c 3.8 d
Chatham-Kent 0.2 b 0.7 b ** 9.1 c
Cobourg 0.0 d ** 0.0 d **
Collingwood 1.3 a 0.0 d ** **
Cornwall ** 4.7 d 4.6 d 6.8 c
Elliot Lake 1.5 a 1.9 a 3.1 d **
Erin T ** ** ** **
Gravenhurst T 0.0 d 0.0 d ** **
Greater Napanee T 0.0 d 0.0 d 0.0 d **
Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury 0.3 b 1.5 d 1.4 a 0.7 a
Grey Highlands MU
Guelph 1.2 a 0.5 b 5.7 b 4.6 c
Haldimand County CY ** ** ** **
Hamilton 0.8 a 2.4 c 5.6 b 5.1 b
Hawkesbury ** ** ** 0.0 d
Huntsville T 0.0 d ** 0.0 d **
Ingersoll ** ** 1.8 a 13.8 c
Kawartha Lakes 0.0 d ** ** **
Kenora 0.0 d ** ** **
Kincardine MU ** 0.0 d **
Kingston 0.6 a 3.4 c 3.5 b 2.1 b
Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo 0.6 a 1.9 a 8.0 b 6.0 b
Lambton Shores MU 0.0 d ** 0.0 d **
London 1.1 a 3.0 a 6.2 a 4.9 a
Meaford MU 0.0 d 0.0 d ** **
Midland 0.0 d ** ** **
Norfolk 0.0 d 0.0 d 0.0 d **
North Bay ** 0.7 b ** **
North Perth MU 0.0 d ** ** 6.0 a
Orillia ** ** 4.4 d **
Oshawa 1.3 a 5.4 c 4.2 c 3.7 c
Ottawa 0.8 a 2.0 a 3.2 b 5.5 c
Owen Sound ** 0.5 b 2.5 c 5.3 d
Pembroke 0.0 c 0.0 c ** **
Petawawa 0.0 d ** ** **
Peterborough 1.2 d 2.2 c 4.0 d 6.2 b
Port Hope 0.7 a ** ** **
Prince Edward County CY ** 3.3 d 0.0 d **
Sarnia 1.7 c 4.0 c 6.6 b 8.0 b
Saugeen Shores T 5.4 c 6.8 b ** **
Sault Ste. Marie ** 2.1 c 4.1 c 4.0 c
Scugog TP 0.0 d ** **
South Dundas MU 0.0 d 0.0 d ** **
South Huron MU ** 3.4 b 0.0 d 8.5 c
St. Catharines - Niagara 2.7 c 2.7 c 5.9 c 4.2 b
Stratford ** 4.3 c 4.9 c 6.1 c
The Nation / La Nation M ** ** ** **
Thunder Bay 2.7 c 1.4 d 1.4 a 4.6 d
Tillsonburg 0.4 b 1.6 c 7.5 c **
Timmins ** ** ** 2.6 c
Toronto 0.7 a 2.1 a 3.8 a 5.3 a
Trent Hills MU ** ** ** **
Wasaga Beach
West Grey MU ** ** ** **
West Nipissing / Nipissing Ouest M 0.0 d 0.0 d 0.0 d **
Windsor 2.1 c 2.7 b 4.9 d 5.4 b
Woodstock 1.2 d 0.5 b 4.8 c 4.2 c
Notes:
  • The following letter codes are used to indicate the reliability of the estimates: a — Excellent, b — Very good, c — Good, d — Poor (Use with Caution))
  • ** — Data suppressed to protect confidentiality or data not statistically reliable
  • ++ — Change in rent is not statistically significant. This means that the change in rent is not statistically different than zero (0). (Applies only to % Change of Average Rent Tables).
Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey (opens in new window)