Rent data · Hamilton
3-bedroom rent in Hamilton
Three-bedroom rentals in Hamilton are mostly whole houses and townhouses rather than apartments, so they turn over less often and are concentrated away from the core. Purpose-built three-bedroom apartments are comparatively rare here.
The survey figure
What this figure is, in Hamilton
CMHC surveys Hamilton as part of the Hamilton census metropolitan area, which also takes in Burlington and Grimsby. That is wider than the city, and the areas it adds are generally more expensive, so the published average sits a little above what a comparable unit inside Hamilton itself tends to cost.
The bigger gap is between the survey and the market. CMHC measures what sitting tenants pay in purpose-built buildings, and a large share of Hamilton’s rental stock is neither — it is flats inside pre-war houses and units in buildings that predate the survey’s definitions. Expect an advertised rent on a recently turned-over unit to run above the figures here.
CMHC Rental Market Survey (October of each year), via Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0133-01. Figures are the average rent of occupied row and apartment structures of three units and over in the Hamilton census metropolitan area (Hamilton, Burlington and Grimsby) — not advertised rents, and not specific to any one neighbourhood or school.
How it has moved
| Year | Bachelor | One bedroom | Two bedroom | Three bedroom + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,078 | $1,402 | $1,659 | $1,866 |
| 2024 | $1,035 | $1,413 | $1,636 | $1,851 |
| 2023 | $1,022 | $1,366 | $1,619 | $1,698 |
| 2022 | $947 | $1,198 | $1,438 | $1,567 |
| 2021 | $930 | $1,143 | $1,364 | $1,557 |
| 2020 | $899 | $1,096 | $1,292 | $1,457 |
| 2019 | $827 | $1,021 | $1,223 | $1,407 |
| 2018 | $807 | $970 | $1,162 | $1,373 |
What moves the price in Hamilton
An average is the middle of a large, mixed set. These are the differences that actually separate two 3-bedroom homes here.
Heat, and who pays for it
The single biggest running-cost variable in Hamilton’s older lower-city stock. A rent that includes heat in a converted house and one that excludes it in a building with electric baseboards are not the same number in January.
Which side of the escarpment
The same rent buys noticeably more space above the brow than below it, and costs you a climb on one of a handful of access routes at rush hour. Price differences between the two halves are real and are mostly about that trip.
Whether the unit is registered
Much of the supply is secondary units inside houses. Ask whether it is a registered second unit and about egress windows and alarms — an unregistered unit can be ordered closed, and that is your problem as much as the landlord’s.
Distance to the right station
Hamilton GO Centre, West Harbour GO and Aldershot GO serve different lines with different service levels. Which one you are near matters more than how far you are from “a” station.
The survey has no neighbourhood detail, so for the areas you are weighing use the Hamilton neighbourhood pages.
Other unit sizes
Where this page’s data comes from
- CMHC average rents for areas with a population of 10,000 and over (Table 34-10-0133-01) (opens Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey) in a new tab) — Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey). October 2023, 2024 and 2025 surveys. Updated annual (each survey is released in the following winter). Retrieved September 4, 2026. Statistics Canada Open Licence (opens Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey) in a new tab)Source: Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0133-01 (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey). Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
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