Urban village · Dartmouth, Halifax
Downtown Dartmouth
Ferry, lakes and Portland Street's local shops
- Young professionals
- Renters
- Food lovers
At a glance
Downtown Dartmouth is the original core of the city across the harbour, with Alderney Landing, Portland Street's restaurants and shops, Sullivan's Pond, Lake Banook and older houses and apartment buildings. A bit more than half of households rent. About 35% of homes are detached and 51% are apartments, 58% of households rent, and owners valued the median home at about $389K in the 2021 census.
- Median home value (est.)
- $473K* * est.: 2021 census, indexed to September 2026 · city $423K
- Residents
- 20,400 scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 17,362 at the 2021 census
- Households renting
- 58% city 43%
- Homes that are apartments
- 51% city 36%
What the numbers mean
- Owners valued the median home at $389K in the 2021 census. Indexed to September 2026 prices with the Halifax-Dartmouth MLS® Home Price Index (+22% since then), that is about $473K, 12% above the Halifax median of $423K. It is an estimate: the index tracks the whole region, not this neighbourhood.
- 58% of households rent, well above the 43% city-wide, so expect a younger, more mobile mix of neighbours.
- 51% of homes are apartments (36% city-wide), so a condo is the usual way in.
Who lives here
Share of residents by age, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 17,362 at the 2021 census.
Homes
Share of homes by type, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 17,362 at the 2021 census.
Estimated property tax1
What owning here costs each year in property tax at the median assessed value. Renters don’t pay it directly, but landlords pass it on.
- Median home
- $5,300 a year about $440 a month on a $473K assessment
Upfront closing costs2
Nova Scotia has no provincial land transfer tax; the Halifax Regional Municipality charges a deed transfer tax of 1.5% of the price. Government fees at the median home price: This uses the census home value indexed to September 2026 prices, so treat it as an estimate.
- HRM deed transfer tax
- $7,100 on $473K
Getting to work by transit3
- Downtown27 min
- Dalhousie University39 min
- Burnside Business Park47 min
- Airport1 h 17 min
Average weekday morning trip by bus, train or both, including walking and waiting. Driving and cycling times aren't included for Halifax.
Everyday walkability4
How Downtown Dartmouth compares with other blocks in the nine cities, by what is nearby (higher means closer):
Schools5
- Schools here
- 5 public
- Elementary
- 4
- High school
- 1
- Within 2 km
- 23 of its edge
- Bicentennial SchoolElementary
- Crichton Park Elementary SchoolElementary
- Dartmouth South AcademyElementary
- Hawthorn Elementary SchoolElementary
- Dartmouth High SchoolHigh school
1 private school is also mapped here.
The school nearest the house may not be the school your child is assigned to. School boards assign a designated school by street address, and a neighbourhood can be split across several or have none inside its boundary. Use your school board’s school locator with the exact address before you rely on a school.
We don’t rate schools: test results are not comparable across provinces, so a school’s quality is something to ask about on a visit.
Halifax doesn't publish building permits by neighbourhood, so we can't chart construction here yet.
Neighbourhood-level crime figures aren't available for Halifax. Halifax Regional Police and the RCMP don't publish open crime counts by neighbourhood that we can compare across areas. Check Statistics Canada's crime tables for municipality-wide trends. Why this is missing.