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Renting in The Junction and Onward Willow

The Junction and Onward Willow is a 3.5 km² area of Guelph, home to about 10,927 people at the 2021 Census. It is a majority-renter area: 59% of households rented their home, and 60.1% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 3 schools, 3 licensed child care facilities, 7 parks, 31 transit stops.

3.5 km²10,927 residents (2021)3 schools31 transit stops

The boundary this page uses

The City of Guelph publishes this area as The Junction and Onward Willow. Two Neighbourhood Group areas the feed treats as one.

Everything counted below — schools, licensed child care, parks, transit stops — is counted inside that boundary, so the figures describe The Junction and Onward Willow 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 16 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

10,927
Residents (2021)
59%
Households that rent
40.6% own
60.1%
Homes that are apartments
$69,377
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
61.7%
Households with children
38.4
Median age
2.3
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old750 · 6.9%
  • 5 - 9 years old600 · 5.5%
  • 10 - 19 years old915 · 8.4%
  • 20 - 34 years old2,665 · 24.4%
  • 35 - 49 years old2,295 · 21%
  • 50 - 54 years old650 · 6%
  • 55 - 64 years old1,400 · 12.8%
  • 65 - 69 years old530 · 4.9%
  • 70 - 79 years old750 · 6.9%
  • 80 - 84 years old190 · 1.7%
  • 85+ years old165 · 1.5%

How The Junction and Onward Willow compares with Guelph

59% of households in The Junction and Onward Willow rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Guelph. This is one of the parts of Guelph where renting is the norm rather than the exception, so purpose-built and converted rental housing is a normal part of the streetscape.

Both figures are the share of households that rent, from the 2021 Census. The The Junction and Onward Willow 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

3 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

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

FacilityTypeProgrammes
Noah'S Ark Childcare95 Crimea StreetChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Willowdale Child Care And Learning Centre95 Willow RoadChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day), Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)
Ymca Of Three Rivers Child Care - Paisley406 Paisley RoadChild 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.

7
Parks inside the boundary
18.6 hectares in total
31
Guelph Transit stops
2 km
Nearest GO station
Guelph Central GO

Largest green spaces

  • NORM JARY PARK · 9.4 ha
  • HOWITT PARK · 4.3 ha
  • BRISTOL STREET PARK · 1.9 ha
  • SLEEMAN PARK · 1.5 ha
  • GOLDIE PARK · 1 ha
  • DREW PARK · 0.3 ha

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

Renting in The Junction and Onward Willow

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 The Junction and Onward Willow?
At the 2021 Census, 59% of households in The Junction and Onward Willow were renters and 60.1% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 16 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Guelph as a whole.
Which schools are in The Junction and Onward Willow?
3 publicly funded schools sit inside the boundary: St Joseph Catholic School, Paisley Road Public School, Willow Road Public School. 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 The Junction and Onward Willow?
31 Guelph Transit stops are inside the boundary, and Guelph Central GO is about 2 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 The Junction and Onward Willow have?
The municipality's parks layer records 7 parks inside the boundary, about 18.6 hectares in total, plus roughly 1.1 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.