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Hamilton, Ontario

Renting in Lakeshore

Lakeshore is a 88 hectares area of Hamilton, home to about 2,420 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mixed owner and renter area: 31.3% of households rented their home, and 70.1% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 4 parks.

88 ha2,420 residents (2021)

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 Lakeshore 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 2 Statistics Canada dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Rates are population-weighted; counts are summed.

2,420
Residents (2021)
31.3%
Households that rent
67.8% own
70.1%
Homes that are apartments
$80,724
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
39.2%
Households with children
49.3
Median age
1.9
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old105 · 4.3%
  • 5 - 9 years old55 · 2.3%
  • 10 - 19 years old95 · 3.9%
  • 20 - 34 years old610 · 25.2%
  • 35 - 49 years old360 · 14.8%
  • 50 - 54 years old140 · 5.8%
  • 55 - 64 years old320 · 13.2%
  • 65 - 69 years old180 · 7.4%
  • 70 - 79 years old300 · 12.4%
  • 80 - 84 years old95 · 3.9%
  • 85+ years old165 · 6.8%

How Lakeshore compares with Hamilton

31.3% of households in Lakeshore rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Hamilton — close to the city as a whole, so the mix of owners and renters here is unremarkable for Hamilton.

Both figures are the share of households that rent, from the 2021 Census. The Lakeshore 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

No publicly funded school sits inside the boundary; these are the closest, measured from the area's centre.

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025). 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
2.7 hectares in total
—
HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops
11.8 km
Nearest GO station
Hamilton GO Centre

Largest green spaces

  • Edgelake Park · 1.3 ha
  • Cherry Beach · 1 ha
  • Lawrence P. Sayers Park · 0.3 ha
  • Millen Road Parkette · 0.1 ha

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

Renting in Lakeshore

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 Lakeshore?
At the 2021 Census, 31.3% of households in Lakeshore were renters and 70.1% of homes were apartments. Those figures come from the 2 Statistics Canada dissemination areas inside the municipal boundary, so they describe this area rather than Hamilton as a whole.
What green space does Lakeshore have?
The municipality's parks layer records 4 parks inside the boundary, about 2.7 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.