Parkwood Hills

At a glance

A small, settled suburb in Nepean, built mostly of houses and townhouses from the postwar decades. About four in ten households rent, and roughly one in five residents is over 65, with a good number of young children too.

Median home value (est.)

$649K^*

* est.: 2021 census, indexed to September 2026 · city $624K

Residents

2,480

scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 2,221 at the 2021 census

Households renting

44%

city 36%

Households in condos

13%

city 16%

What the numbers mean

• Owners valued the median home at $645K in the 2021 census. Indexed to September 2026 prices with the Ottawa MLS® Home Price Index (+1% since then), that is about $649K, close to the Ottawa median of $624K. It is an estimate: the index tracks the whole region, not this neighbourhood.
• 44% of households rent, above the 36% city-wide.
• The median monthly rent is about $1,355, and about 23% of households spent 30% or more of their income on housing in 2021.

Who lives here

Share of residents by age, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 2,221 at the 2021 census.

Homes

Share of households by type, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 2,221 at the 2021 census.

Upfront closing costs¹

Ontario charges a tiered land transfer tax, up to 2.5% on the part of a home over $2 million. Government fees at the median home price: This uses the census home value indexed to September 2026 prices, so treat it as an estimate.

Ontario land transfer tax

$9,460

on $649K

Typical apartment rent nearby²

Parkwood Hills sits in CMHC's Nepean survey zone. October 2025 average rent of purpose-built rental apartments in that zone:

Studio

$1,432

+$100 vs metro average

1 bedroom

$1,581

−$12 vs metro average

2 bedroom

$1,856

−$60 vs metro average

3 bedroom or more

$2,100

+$10 vs metro average

How it's changing

Ottawa doesn't publish building permits by neighbourhood, so we can't chart construction here yet.

Safety³

Reported incidents in 2025 (the latest full year Ottawa Police publish by location), per 1,000 residents, compared with the median of 96 Ottawa neighbourhoods.

Reported crime

29.7

per 1,000 · above the 8 median

Violent crime

16.7

per 1,000 · median 5.2

Property crime

13.1

per 1,000 · median 2.8

• Reported crime runs about 3.7× the median Ottawa neighbourhood: 29.7 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, versus 8.
• The most common reported crime is assault, 36% of the total. 44% of incidents are property crime.
• Crime has been roughly flat since 2021, at about 63 reported incidents a year.
• Busy main streets, transit and nightlife bring in visitors, and incidents are counted where they happen, not where people live.

Reported crime by year