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Renting in Jerseyville

Jerseyville is a 16.0 km² area of Hamilton, home to about 569 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mostly owner-occupied area: 7.1% of households rented their home, and 2.4% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 1 park.

16.0 km²569 residents (2021)

The boundary this page uses

The City of Hamilton divides Jerseyville into 2 planning units (Jerseyville East and Jerseyville 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 Jerseyville 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.

569
Residents (2021)
7.1%
Households that rent
92.9% own
2.4%
Homes that are apartments
$98,000
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
50%
Households with children
48.8
Median age
2.7
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old15 · 2.6%
  • 5 - 9 years old35 · 6.1%
  • 10 - 19 years old85 · 14.9%
  • 20 - 34 years old60 · 10.5%
  • 35 - 49 years old95 · 16.7%
  • 50 - 54 years old40 · 7%
  • 55 - 64 years old100 · 17.5%
  • 65 - 69 years old45 · 7.9%
  • 70 - 79 years old75 · 13.2%
  • 80 - 84 years old10 · 1.8%
  • 85+ years old10 · 1.8%

How Jerseyville compares with Hamilton

7.1% of households in Jerseyville rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Hamilton. Very little of Jerseyville 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 Jerseyville 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.

1
Parks inside the boundary
2 hectares in total
—
HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops
20 km
Nearest GO station
Hamilton GO Centre

Largest green spaces

  • Jerseyville Park · 2 ha

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

Renting in Jerseyville

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 Jerseyville?
At the 2021 Census, 7.1% of households in Jerseyville were renters and 2.4% 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.
What green space does Jerseyville have?
The municipality's parks layer records 1 park inside the boundary, about 2 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.