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Renting in Falkirk

Falkirk is a 1.4 km² area of Hamilton, home to about 4,961 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mostly owner-occupied area: 11.5% of households rented their home, and 0.6% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 1 school, 2 licensed child care facilities, 4 parks, 20 transit stops.

1.4 km²4,961 residents (2021)1 school20 transit stops

The boundary this page uses

The City of Hamilton divides Falkirk into 2 planning units (Falkirk East and Falkirk West). This page covers all of them.

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

Contains public sector Data made available under the City of Hamilton's Open Data Licence. Layer retrieved August 2, 2026.

Who lives here

From the 8 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

4,961
Residents (2021)
11.5%
Households that rent
88.7% own
0.6%
Homes that are apartments
$123,149
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
69.4%
Households with children
42.5
Median age
3.2
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old200 · 4%
  • 5 - 9 years old240 · 4.8%
  • 10 - 19 years old695 · 14%
  • 20 - 34 years old965 · 19.5%
  • 35 - 49 years old905 · 18.3%
  • 50 - 54 years old375 · 7.6%
  • 55 - 64 years old765 · 15.4%
  • 65 - 69 years old255 · 5.1%
  • 70 - 79 years old335 · 6.8%
  • 80 - 84 years old100 · 2%
  • 85+ years old120 · 2.4%

How Falkirk compares with Hamilton

11.5% of households in Falkirk rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Hamilton. Very little of Falkirk 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 Falkirk figure is aggregated from the dissemination areas inside the boundary; the Hamilton 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.

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
St. Thomas More Children'S Centre1045 Upper Paradise RoadChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Paradise Corner Children'S Centre634 Rymal RoadChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day)

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, Licensed child care facilities in Ontario (31 July 2026 snapshot); locations matched to the City of Hamilton’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 Hamilton's own open data.

4
Parks inside the boundary
20.5 hectares in total
20
HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops
5 routes serve them
5.9 km
Nearest GO station
Hamilton GO Centre

Largest green spaces

  • William Schwenger Park · 10.8 ha
  • St. Thomas More Secondary · 7.9 ha
  • Falkirk West Park · 1.6 ha
  • Meadowbank Dr. Parkette · 0.2 ha

Routes serving stops inside Falkirk: 34-Northbound, 34-Southbound, 35-Southbound, 43-Eastbound, 44-Westbound. Stop counts say nothing about frequency — check the schedule for the trips you actually make.

Contains public sector Data made available under the City of Hamilton's Open Data Licence.

Renting in Falkirk

Hamilton is served by the HSR bus network, with the most frequent corridors running east–west across the lower city. Two GO stations sit in the city — Hamilton GO Centre downtown and West Harbour GO on the Lakeshore West line — and Aldershot GO just over the Burlington line is a common commuter station too. The escarpment limits north–south routes, so check the actual trip rather than the map distance.

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 Falkirk?
At the 2021 Census, 11.5% of households in Falkirk were renters and 0.6% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 8 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Hamilton as a whole.
Which schools are in Falkirk?
1 publicly funded school sits inside the boundary: St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary 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 Falkirk?
20 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops are inside the boundary, on 5 routes, and Hamilton GO Centre is about 5.9 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 Falkirk have?
The municipality's parks layer records 4 parks inside the boundary, about 20.5 hectares in total.

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.