Etobicoke and York
The lakeshore villages and the old City of York, where a rail corridor decides more about an address than a postcode does.
Photograph: Humber College North Campus From The Air · Wiki.cullin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
6 guides in the area that merges two of the six pre-amalgamation municipalities: Etobicoke, west of the Humber, and the old City of York between it and the old city. The lakeshore end is a chain of villages that were towns in their own right until the 1960s, and they still read that way on the ground.
The structural fact here is the rail corridor. It carries the GO trains that make this side of the city genuinely fast to downtown, and it also cuts the lakeshore off from everything north of it, so a school two kilometres away can be a longer walk than one three kilometres away on the same side. Walk the route before you offer rather than measuring it. The other thing to look at is what has been built: the old motel strip at Humber Bay is now twenty-odd condominium towers, which makes this the area with the most new apartment supply of the four, and also the one whose composite benchmark fell least over the last year. That is not the result the supply argument predicts, and it is worth sitting with before accepting either side of it.
6 communities, guide by guide
Glenfield-Jane Heights
Thirty thousand people in five square kilometres at Jane and Finch, a Neighbourhood Improvement Area with a subway station at one corner and a light rail line being built along the other.
- $1.03M
- Single-family detached benchmark in TRREB district W05, July 2026, down 8.47% year over year
- $748,600
- Composite benchmark in the same district in July 2026, down 5.88% year over year
Islington
The village Etobicoke grew out of, now a subway station, a strip of murals and the quiet half of the borough's centre.
- $1.64M
- Detached benchmark in TRREB district W08, July 2026, down 2.21% year over year
- $520k
- Apartment benchmark in the same district and month, down 7.73% year over year
Mimico
A lakeshore village behind a rail corridor, with twenty condominium towers on its old motel strip and a composite down 3.62% over the year.
- $814k
- Composite benchmark in TRREB district W06, July 2026, down 3.62% year over year
- $1.15M
- Detached benchmark in the same district and month, down 4.52% year over year
Stonegate-Queensway
South Etobicoke between the Humber and the Mimico Creek, where a 1950s bungalow belt is being replaced house by house and mid-rise by mid-rise along the Queensway.
- $1.47M
- Detached benchmark in TRREB district W07, July 2026, down 4.31% year over year
- $520k
- Apartment benchmark in the same district and month, down 8.62% year over year
The Kingsway
Nine thousand people in Etobicoke's most expensive two and a half square kilometres, a 1920s garden suburb with Tudor covenants and a subway station at the bottom of the hill.
- $1.64M
- Single-family detached benchmark in TRREB district W08, July 2026, down 2.21% year over year
- $520k
- Apartment benchmark in the same district and month, July 2026, down 7.73% year over year
West Humber-Clairville
The biggest neighbourhood in Toronto on both counts, 30 square kilometres wrapped around the airport's approach, where the houses sit between a river valley and a warehouse belt.
- $879k
- Single-family detached benchmark in TRREB district W10, July 2026, the lowest of any district in the City of Toronto
- $698,600
- Composite benchmark in the same district in July 2026, down 4.07% year over year
Photographs: West Park Healthcare Centre by WayneBu, CC0, Wikimedia Commons · Islington Avenue - Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Ca. February 1988 by Giorgio Galeotti, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Odeon Lakeshore Theatre by Peter Broster, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Berry Road Pedestrian Bridge, BAA 2025 by Chicken4War, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · All Saints Anglican Church in Etobicoke, ON 2025 by Chicken4War, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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