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Burlington
Waterfront parks and settled neighbourhoods on one side, three GO stations on the other — Burlington is Halton Region's city on the lake, at the western end of the GTA.
Burlington sits on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario, at the west end of Halton Region, with Oakville to the east and Hamilton just beyond its western edge. The 2021 census counted 186,948 residents. The city runs long and narrow: the lake to the south, the Niagara Escarpment to the north, and between them neighbourhoods built up decade by decade — the older streets by the water, the newer ones up north — at an unhurried pace.
Overview
The city's front door is its southern shoreline. Downtown, Spencer Smith Park strings together lawns, a waterfront promenade and a pond that becomes a skating rink in winter, and the Brant Street Pier reaches 137 metres out into the lake. East of downtown is Beachway Park and its sandy beach; west, in the old community of Aldershot, sits the main centre of the Royal Botanical Gardens on Plains Road, its natural lands forming part of the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve.
North of Dundas Street, the neighbourhoods are newer, most of them built from the 1980s on, and beyond them farmland runs up to the foot of the Escarpment. Population grew by only about 3,600 people between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, up 2.0% (see Chart C2) — the city is largely built out, and its growth is gradual rather than a new-subdivision boom.
Neighbourhoods
Aldershot
The old lakeside community at the west end; its station serves both GO trains and VIA Rail intercity trains, and the Royal Botanical Gardens' main centre is here
Detached, townhomes, condos
Roseland
A character area named in the City's Official Plan: spacious lots, mature street trees, single-detached homes only
Detached
Millcroft
An established north-end community planned around Millcroft Golf Club, its streets and landscaping long since matured
Detached, townhomes
Alton Village
One of the newer family communities in the northeast, with newer schools and parks and Highway 407 just north
Detached, townhomes
The Orchard
A planned northeast community right beside Bronte Creek Provincial Park, with trails and green space throughout
Detached, townhomes
Downtown Burlington
Brant Street and the Spencer Smith Park waterfront form the city centre — restaurants, cafés and City Hall all here
Condos, townhomes, detached
Schools & transit
Schools.Four boards run Burlington's publicly funded schools: the Halton District School Board (HDSB) and the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB), plus the two French-language boards, Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French public) and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (French Catholic). Public high schools include Nelson, Burlington Central, Dr. Frank J. Hayden and Aldershot. The Catholic board runs 14 elementary and 3 secondary schools in the city — Assumption, Corpus Christi and Notre Dame. There is a French-language elementary school from each French board: Viamonde's École élémentaire Renaissance and MonAvenir's École élémentaire catholique Saint-Philippe. Both English-language boards are headquartered in Burlington. School catchments are set by the boards and change from time to time, so check any specific address with the board before you buy.
Getting around.Most commuters use the GO train on the Lakeshore West line. Burlington has three stations — Appleby GO, Burlington GO and Aldershot GO — with all-day service. Aldershot GO is the terminus for many trains and doubles as a VIA Rail station, with intercity trains toward Toronto and Windsor. A local train from Burlington GO takes about an hour to Union Station in Toronto — check the GO Transit schedule for exact times. Drivers have three highways, the QEW, the 403 and the 407. Burlington Transit, run by the City, feeds all three GO stations and the downtown.
Market data
September 2026 · updated monthly with the market report
The benchmark price tracks what a "typical" home is worth, so it is not swayed by whether this month's sales happened to be pricey or cheap — it reads the trend more steadily than the average price.
The five main types total 175 of the city's 177 sales; the other 2 were other home types.
The month in one line: A balanced market, leaning slightly toward sellers. Burlington's sales-to-new-listings ratio is the highest of the nine cities and there is only about three and a half months of inventory, so buyers are relatively plentiful, sellers face less competition, and prices have eased only modestly.
For the full monthly picture — sales-to-new-listings ratio, benchmark prices and the breakdown by home type — see the Burlington section of the market report. See the market report