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Renting in Exhibition Park

Exhibition Park is a 2.7 km² area of Guelph, home to about 7,857 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mixed owner and renter area: 39.7% of households rented their home, and 37.9% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 4 schools, 2 licensed child care facilities, 10 parks, 33 transit stops.

2.7 km²7,857 residents (2021)4 schools33 transit stops

The boundary this page uses

Boundary and area name published by the City of Guelph.

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

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

Who lives here

From the 15 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

7,857
Residents (2021)
39.7%
Households that rent
60.3% own
37.9%
Homes that are apartments
$89,603
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
56.6%
Households with children
41.9
Median age
2.3
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old425 · 5.4%
  • 5 - 9 years old420 · 5.4%
  • 10 - 19 years old790 · 10.1%
  • 20 - 34 years old1,565 · 20%
  • 35 - 49 years old1,575 · 20.2%
  • 50 - 54 years old545 · 7%
  • 55 - 64 years old1,065 · 13.6%
  • 65 - 69 years old420 · 5.4%
  • 70 - 79 years old575 · 7.4%
  • 80 - 84 years old175 · 2.2%
  • 85+ years old255 · 3.3%

How Exhibition Park compares with Guelph

39.7% of households in Exhibition Park rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Guelph. Renting is more common here than across the city, which usually means more rental stock and more turnover.

Both figures are the share of households that rent, from the 2021 Census. The Exhibition Park figure is aggregated from the dissemination areas inside the boundary; the Guelph 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

4 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

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

FacilityTypeProgrammes
Jack & Jill Day Nursery32 Arnold StreetChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day), Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)
Victory Kids Club135 Exhibition StreetChild Care CentreBefore school, After school

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

Parks, transit and public facilities

Counted inside the boundary from the City of Guelph's own open data.

10
Parks inside the boundary
21.3 hectares in total
33
Guelph Transit stops
1.7 km
Nearest GO station
Guelph Central GO

Largest green spaces

  • EXHIBITION PARK · 13.6 ha
  • CNR SPURLINE PARK · 2.8 ha
  • HERB MARKLE PARK · 2.1 ha
  • JOSEPH WOLFOND PARK WEST · 1.1 ha
  • BURNS DRIVE PARK · 0.5 ha
  • KIMBERLEY PARK · 0.4 ha

Public facilities inside the boundary

Arena
EXHIBITION PARK ARENA — 70 DIVISION ST

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Guelph.

Renting in Exhibition Park

Guelph Transit runs a network built around a downtown hub, so cross-town trips often route through the centre. Guelph Central Station downtown carries both GO and VIA trains on the Kitchener corridor, and Highway 401 runs south of the city. Distances here are short, but a transfer can still dominate a journey — check the real trip at the time you would travel.

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 Exhibition Park?
At the 2021 Census, 39.7% of households in Exhibition Park were renters and 37.9% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 15 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Guelph as a whole.
Which schools are in Exhibition Park?
4 publicly funded schools sit inside the boundary: Victory Public School, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, June Avenue Public School, Guelph Collegiate and Vocational Institute. 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 Exhibition Park?
33 Guelph Transit stops are inside the boundary, and Guelph Central GO is about 1.7 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 Exhibition Park have?
The municipality's parks layer records 10 parks inside the boundary, about 21.3 hectares in total, plus roughly 5.8 km of mapped trails.

Nearby neighbourhoods

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

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Where this page’s data comes from

Full method notes, refresh cadence and the list of data this site deliberately does not publish are on the data page.