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Renting in Westcliffe

Westcliffe is a 1.8 km² area of Hamilton, home to about 4,484 people at the 2021 Census. It is a mostly owner-occupied area: 13.1% of households rented their home, and 2.6% of homes are apartments. Inside the boundary: 2 schools, 2 licensed child care facilities, 6 parks, 42 transit stops.

1.8 km²4,484 residents (2021)2 schools42 transit stops

The boundary this page uses

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

4,484
Residents (2021)
13.1%
Households that rent
86% own
2.6%
Homes that are apartments
$106,246
Median household income
2020 income, 2021 Census
58.4%
Households with children
45.4
Median age
2.6
Average household size
Age profile
  • 0 - 4 years old210 · 4.7%
  • 5 - 9 years old220 · 4.9%
  • 10 - 19 years old440 · 9.8%
  • 20 - 34 years old825 · 18.4%
  • 35 - 49 years old780 · 17.4%
  • 50 - 54 years old270 · 6%
  • 55 - 64 years old635 · 14.1%
  • 65 - 69 years old265 · 5.9%
  • 70 - 79 years old365 · 8.1%
  • 80 - 84 years old175 · 3.9%
  • 85+ years old305 · 6.8%

How Westcliffe compares with Hamilton

13.1% of households in Westcliffe rented their home at the 2021 Census, against 34.3% across Hamilton. Very little of Westcliffe 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 Westcliffe 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

2 publicly funded schools sit 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
Little Peoples Day Care Centre510 Mohawk RoadChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Ymca Sacc - Chedoke500 Bendamere AvenueChild Care CentreFull Day(6 hours or more in a day), Before school, After school

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.

6
Parks inside the boundary
7.2 hectares in total
42
HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops
5 routes serve them
3.4 km
Nearest GO station
Hamilton GO Centre

Largest green spaces

  • Colquhoun Park · 4 ha
  • Holbrook Park · 1 ha
  • Holbrook Elementary · 0.9 ha
  • Cliffiview Park · 0.8 ha
  • Scenic Park · 0.3 ha
  • Balfour Park · 0.2 ha

Routes serving stops inside Westcliffe: 33-Northbound, 33-Southbound, 34-Northbound, 34-Southbound, 41-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 Westcliffe

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 Westcliffe?
At the 2021 Census, 13.1% of households in Westcliffe were renters and 2.6% 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 Westcliffe?
2 publicly funded schools sit inside the boundary: Chedoke Middle School, Holbrook Junior Public 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 Westcliffe?
42 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops are inside the boundary, on 5 routes, and Hamilton GO Centre is about 3.4 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 Westcliffe have?
The municipality's parks layer records 6 parks inside the boundary, about 7.2 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.