Mount Hope and Airport

At a glance

Mount Hope and the Airport area on the south Mountain include Hamilton's international airport, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and rural-edge subdivisions, with farmland to the south. About 67% of homes are detached and 2% are apartments, 12% of households rent, and owners valued the median home at about $767K in the 2021 census.

Median home value (est.)

$684K^*

* est.: 2021 census, indexed to September 2026 · city $917K

Residents

26,840

scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 23,841 at the 2021 census

Households renting

12%

city 34%

Homes that are apartments

2%

city 38%

What the numbers mean

• Owners valued the median home at $767K in the 2021 census. Indexed to September 2026 prices with the Greater Toronto MLS® Home Price Index (-11% since then), that is about $684K, 25% below the Toronto-area suburbs median of $917K. It is an estimate: the index tracks the whole region, not this neighbourhood.
• 12% of households rent, well below the 34% city-wide. Most people here own and stay a while.
• 23% are 65 or older, versus 16% city-wide, a sign of long-time residents and a settled pace.
• 67% of homes are single-detached houses, versus 40% city-wide.

Who lives here

Share of residents by age, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 23,841 at the 2021 census.

Homes

Share of homes by type, scaled estimate for mid-2025, up from 23,841 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

$10,160

on $684K

Schools²

• 3 public schools are mapped in Mount Hope and Airport.
• Elementary grades at 3.
• 29 public schools lie within 2 km of its edge.

• Corpus Christi Catholic Elementary SchoolElementary · Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB
• Mount Hope Public SchoolElementary · Hamilton-Wentworth DSB
• St. Thérèse of Lisieux Catholic Elementary SchoolElementary · Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB

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.

How it's changing

These municipalities don't publish building permits by neighbourhood, so we can't chart construction here yet.

Safety

Neighbourhood-level crime figures aren't available for Hamilton. Policing there is by municipal and regional police services, and none publishes neighbourhood crime counts we can compare with Toronto's. Check Statistics Canada's crime tables for municipality-wide trends, and the local police website for crime maps. Why this is missing.