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Renting in Hamilton Beach

Hamilton Beach is a 2.8 km² area of Hamilton, home to about 788 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mostly owner-occupied area: 18.2% of households rented their home, and 11.6% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 7 parks, 24 transit stops.

2.8 km²788 residents (2021)24 transit stops

The boundary this page uses

Boundary and area name published by the City of Hamilton.

Everything counted below — schools, licensed child care, parks, transit stops — is counted inside that boundary, so the figures describe Hamilton Beach 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 1 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

788
Residents (2021)
18.2%
Households that rent
81.8% own
11.6%
Homes that are apartments
$93,000
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
54.3%
Households with children
42.0
Median age
2.3
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old35 · 4.5%
  • 5 - 9 years old45 · 5.8%
  • 10 - 19 years old65 · 8.3%
  • 20 - 34 years old150 · 19.2%
  • 35 - 49 years old175 · 22.4%
  • 50 - 54 years old55 · 7.1%
  • 55 - 64 years old135 · 17.3%
  • 65 - 69 years old50 · 6.4%
  • 70 - 79 years old55 · 7.1%
  • 80 - 84 years old5 · 0.6%
  • 85+ years old10 · 1.3%

How Hamilton Beach compares with Hamilton

18.2% of households in Hamilton Beach rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Hamilton. Very little of Hamilton Beach 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 Hamilton Beach 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.

Parks, transit and public facilities

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

7
Parks inside the boundary
4 hectares in total
24
HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops
2 routes serve them
6.4 km
Nearest GO station
Aldershot GO

Largest green spaces

  • Beach Blvd Park #2 · 1.7 ha
  • Jimmy Howard Park · 0.6 ha
  • Beach Strip Open Space #2 · 0.5 ha
  • Kinsmen Park · 0.5 ha
  • Dieppe Park · 0.3 ha
  • Beach Blvd Park #1 · 0.2 ha

Routes serving stops inside Hamilton Beach: 11-Northbound, 11-Southbound. 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 Hamilton Beach

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 Hamilton Beach?
At the 2021 Census, 18.2% of households in Hamilton Beach were renters and 11.6% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 1 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Hamilton as a whole.
How is transit in Hamilton Beach?
24 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops are inside the boundary, on 2 routes, and Aldershot GO is about 6.4 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 Hamilton Beach have?
The municipality's parks layer records 7 parks inside the boundary, about 4 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.