Understand Uxbridge before you commit to an address
Uxbridge is 21,600 people on the Oak Ridges Moraine, with more than two hundred kilometres of trails, a nineteenth-century downtown and a great deal of protected countryside. It calls itself the trail capital of Canada and it has a better claim to the title than most such names. Figures come from the board's price index and the province's tax return, measured the same way in all 24 municipalities here. The rent is Toronto-wide, because nobody surveys rents municipality by municipality.
The cost of living in Uxbridge, and what a home costs
Two calculators on Ontario's own rules: semi-annual compounding and the real minimum down payment tiers, and the closing costs this province actually charges.
Rent or buy in Uxbridge
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. Toronto's municipal land transfer tax does not apply out here, which is worth real money.
Mortgage calculator
Semi-annual compounding, the CMHC premium under twenty percent down with Ontario's 8% tax on it, and the provincial land transfer tax.
Then work out whether Uxbridge is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Uxbridge yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
All 24 municipalities around Toronto
Every municipality in the four regions on one footing: the published rate, the rate a buyer actually pays once the 2016 assessment freeze is undone, and the gap between them.
Compare the regionToronto, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
Sourced guides to the city at the middle of all this, one in each of its four community council areas.
Browse the city guidesWhat buying in Uxbridge actually involves
Uxbridge carries the highest benchmark price in Durham Region, which surprises people who look only at the distance. What is being paid for is the moraine, the trails and a village core, and what is being given up is any rail commute at all.
The composite here fell 8.5% over the year to July 2026, the second steepest in the layer. Small markets are volatile, and this one is also the kind of discretionary purchase that softens first when rates rise.
The village of Uxbridge holds most of the population, the schools, the hospital site and the shops, and the rest of the township is farmland, forest and moraine with houses scattered through it. That division is the first thing to establish about any listing here, because a village address and a rural address differ on services, insurance, winter access and what a lender will want to see.
The trails are not a marketing detail. Durham Forest and the network around it are a genuine reason people move here and a genuine driver of weekend traffic, and a property backing onto or near a trailhead trades on that. It is also worth checking what the property's own access to the network actually is, since abutting a forest tract and having a right of way into it are different things.
Moving to Uxbridge: check these before you commit
- Whether the property is inside the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan area, and what that permits
- Well and septic outside the village, with tests
- The realistic commute, which is a drive to Markham, Stouffville or the 407
- Winter maintenance on rural roads and the school bus route
- Whether the address is in the village or in the township, since services and costs differ sharply between them
- Any right of way or trail access across the property, and who else is entitled to use it
The rent here is CMHC's Toronto CMA average rather than a municipal figure, because the survey's zones are not municipal boundaries.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Uxbridge figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Uxbridge figures come from
- Market Watch, July 2026: MLS® Home Price Index by municipality · Toronto Regional Real Estate Board · retrieved Supports: Composite, single-family detached and apartment benchmark prices for every municipality in this layer, July 2026, Year-over-year changes on each of those benchmarks, An All TRREB Areas composite benchmark of $934,600, down 4.63% year over year, A City of Toronto composite benchmark of $928,200, down 3.83%
- Market Watch, January 2016: MLS® Home Price Index by municipality · Toronto Regional Real Estate Board · retrieved Supports: Composite benchmark prices for every municipality in this layer at January 2016, the valuation date Ontario assessments are frozen to, A City of Toronto composite benchmark of $612,200 at that date, A Milton composite benchmark of $694,400, up 43.66% over the previous twelve months
- Financial Information Return 2024, Schedule 22: Municipal and School Board Taxation · Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing · retrieved Supports: Lower-tier, upper-tier, education and total residential tax rates for every municipality in Ontario, 2024, The residential assessment each rate is charged against and the taxes it raises, A uniform education rate of 0.153% across the province, The 2025 returns being incomplete at the time of retrieval, with seven of the twenty-four municipalities in this layer not yet filed
- Rental Market Survey: Toronto, average rent by bedroom type, October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: Toronto CMA average purpose-built rents of $1,761 one-bedroom, $2,045 two-bedroom and $2,294 three-bedroom-plus, A Toronto CMA purpose-built vacancy rate of 3.0%
- Assessment Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.31 · Government of Ontario · retrieved Supports: Property is assessed at current value, being the amount the land would realise on a sale, The valuation date is fixed by regulation, and the province has kept it at 1 January 2016 for every year since 2017
- Calculating Land Transfer Tax · Ontario Ministry of Finance · retrieved Supports: Provincial transfer tax brackets, The conditional 2.5% band