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Renting in Kortright Hills

Kortright Hills is a 1.7 km² area of Guelph, home to about 2,501 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mostly owner-occupied area: 3.7% of households rented their home, and 5.4% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 1 school, 2 parks, 13 transit stops.

1.7 km²2,501 residents (2021)1 school13 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 Kortright Hills 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 4 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

2,501
Residents (2021)
3.7%
Households that rent
95.6% own
5.4%
Homes that are apartments
$156,617
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
65.4%
Households with children
44.1
Median age
3.0
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old95 · 3.9%
  • 5 - 9 years old135 · 5.5%
  • 10 - 19 years old375 · 15.2%
  • 20 - 34 years old390 · 15.9%
  • 35 - 49 years old445 · 18.1%
  • 50 - 54 years old245 · 10%
  • 55 - 64 years old445 · 18.1%
  • 65 - 69 years old130 · 5.3%
  • 70 - 79 years old140 · 5.7%
  • 80 - 84 years old40 · 1.6%
  • 85+ years old20 · 0.8%

How Kortright Hills compares with Guelph

3.7% of households in Kortright Hills rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Guelph. Very little of Kortright Hills is rented, so rental supply is thin and depends largely on individual owners rather than purpose-built buildings.

Both figures are the share of households that rent, from the 2021 Census. The Kortright Hills 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

1 publicly funded school sits 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.

Parks, transit and public facilities

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

2
Parks inside the boundary
5 hectares in total
13
Guelph Transit stops
5 km
Nearest GO station
Guelph Central GO

Largest green spaces

  • MOLLISON PARK · 4.6 ha
  • KORTRIGHT HILLS PARK · 0.4 ha

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

Renting in Kortright Hills

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 Kortright Hills?
At the 2021 Census, 3.7% of households in Kortright Hills were renters and 5.4% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 4 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Guelph as a whole.
Which schools are in Kortright Hills?
1 publicly funded school sits inside the boundary: Kortright Hills 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 Kortright Hills?
13 Guelph Transit stops are inside the boundary, and Guelph Central GO is about 5 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 Kortright Hills have?
The municipality's parks layer records 2 parks inside the boundary, about 5 hectares in total, plus roughly 3.4 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.