Rent data · Guelph
Average rent in Guelph
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 Guelph
Guelph is its own census metropolitan area, so the CMHC figures here describe the city and its immediate surroundings rather than a slice of somewhere larger. For a city this size that is unusually clean — the number is genuinely about Guelph.
What it does not capture is the student market. CMHC surveys occupied units in purpose-built rental buildings; a five-bedroom house let by the room near the university is neither, and per-room pricing there follows the academic calendar rather than the survey. Read the averages as the shape of the conventional market, not the whole of it.
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 Guelph census metropolitan area — not advertised rents, and not specific to any one neighbourhood or school.
How it has moved
The last 8 survey years for the Guelph census metropolitan area.
| Year | Bachelor | One bedroom | Two bedroom | Three bedroom + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,331 | $1,627 | $1,803 | $2,099 |
| 2024 | $1,269 | $1,598 | $1,736 | $1,935 |
| 2023 | $1,159 | $1,508 | $1,652 | $1,958 |
| 2022 | $990 | $1,340 | $1,498 | $1,759 |
| 2021 | $935 | $1,277 | $1,436 | $1,466 |
| 2020 | $870 | $1,211 | $1,367 | $1,603 |
| 2019 | $819 | $1,145 | $1,285 | $1,412 |
| 2018 | $773 | $1,034 | $1,163 | $1,336 |
Bachelor
+88.8%
$705 in 2015 → $1,331 in 2025
One bedroom
+81.2%
$898 in 2015 → $1,627 in 2025
Two bedroom
+75%
$1,030 in 2015 → $1,803 in 2025
Who rents in Guelph
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 Guelph
One-bedroom apartments in Guelph are concentrated downtown and in the older apartment corridors near it, where a car is genuinely optional. Away from the centre, a one-bedroom is more likely to be a unit inside a house.
2-bedroom
2-bedroom rent in Guelph
Two-bedroom units are the most common purpose-built size in Guelph and the one most often shared between two people rather than occupied by a couple — which is part of why demand for them tracks the university calendar so closely.
3-bedroom
3-bedroom rent in Guelph
Three-bedroom rentals here are mostly houses and townhouses, and a large share of them are let to student groups rather than families. That competition is worth knowing about if you are a family looking at the same stock.
Where renters live in Guelph
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.
- 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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