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Vaughan
Five old communities stitched into one city — heritage villages, a theme park, a downtown still rising, and a subway line that runs right into it. Vaughan is the residential city in York Region's southwest corner.
Vaughan sits directly north of Toronto, in the southwest of York Region, with 323,103 residents in the 2021 census. It holds an unusual card for a GTA suburb: Toronto's Line 1 subway ends inside the city. Heritage villages, Canada's largest theme park and a new downtown still under construction all share the same map.
Overview
Vaughan only became a city in 1991, built from five older communities — Concord, Kleinburg, Maple, Thornhill and Woodbridge. The village main streets are still there, with newer subdivisions ringed around them. The city is growing a new downtown, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, around Highway 7 and Jane Street: the subway terminus is there, and so are most of the new condo and office towers — it is the fastest-changing part of the city.
Green space carries real weight here. The Humber River valley runs down the west side, Boyd Conservation Park sits in Woodbridge, Kleinburg is ringed by valley lands and trails, and the city is developing the roughly 900-acre North Maple Regional Park in Maple. Population reached 323,103 in the 2021 census, up 5.5% from 2016 — steady growth, not a boom (see Chart C2).
Neighbourhoods
Woodbridge
The big, established community in the west, beside the Humber River and Boyd Conservation Park, with a heritage main-street strip on Woodbridge Avenue and deep Italian community roots
Detached, semis, townhomes, condos
Maple
The centre-north community — Canada's Wonderland and Maple GO station are both here, and so is North Maple Regional Park
Detached, semis, townhomes
Kleinburg
The heritage village in the northwest, home to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection; its main street keeps its village face, surrounded by Humber valley green space
Detached, townhomes
Thornhill
An older community straddling Vaughan and Markham along Yonge Street — this page covers the Vaughan side, west of Yonge: mature residential streets, with the Promenade mall and bus terminal as one of its hubs
Detached, semis, townhomes, condos
Concord
The employment district in the centre-south — factories, warehouses and offices; its homes sit mainly along the Highway 7 corridor
Condos, townhomes, detached
Vellore Village
A newer planned community on Woodbridge's west side, next to the woodlands of the Kortright Centre for Conservation — streets and houses are all recent
Detached, semis, townhomes
Schools & transit
Schools.Vaughan's publicly funded schools are run mainly by the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) and the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), with French-language education covered by Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. Public high schools include Emily Carr and Woodbridge College in Woodbridge, Maple High School in Maple, and Westmount Collegiate in Thornhill; Catholic high schools include Father Bressani and Holy Cross in Woodbridge and St. Joan of Arc in Maple. 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.Vaughan is one of the few GTA suburbs with a subway. Line 1 was extended into the city in 2017 and has two stations here — the terminus, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, and Highway 407. The TTC's published trip time from VMC to Union Station downtown is about 46 minutes in the morning rush. At VMC you can connect to the YRT bus terminal and the Viva rapid buses on Highway 7; Highway 407 station has its own GO and YRT bus terminal. GO trains on the Barrie line stop at Maple GO and Rutherford GO — check the GO Transit schedule for times. YRT runs the local buses, and drivers have three highways: the 400, the 407 and the 427.
Market data
September 2026 · updated monthly with the market report
The five main types total 212 of the city's 213 sales; the other one was another home type.
The month in one line: A balanced market, leaning toward buyers. Sales and new listings both fell sharply, the average home took about six weeks to sell, and prices were basically unchanged from a year ago.
For the full monthly picture — sales-to-new-listings ratio, benchmark prices and the breakdown by home type — see the Vaughan section of the market report. See the market report