Analysis
How many homes are in Oakville’s pipeline
Homes proposed, approved and complete in the Town’s planning records, counted by project, not by folder.
- 65,346
- 27,548
- 22,330
- 169
The answer
As of September 24, 2026, the Town of Oakville’s planning records carry 65,346 homes in 169 live projects: 27,548 under review, 15,101 under appeal at the Ontario Land Tribunal, and 22,330 approved but not yet given final approval or registered. Of the homes whose type is recorded, 82% are apartments. Three communities, Midtown Core, Glenorchy and Joshua’s Meadows, hold most of the total. A proposal is not a building: many applications are revised, some are refused, and approved projects can wait years for construction.
Where the pipeline stands
| Stage | Projects | Homes |
|---|---|---|
| Under review | 71 | 27,548 |
| Under appeal | 14 | 15,101 |
| Approved | 84 | 22,330 |
| Complete | 288 | 6,934 |
What kind of homes
52,703 homes with a recorded type, across 169 live projects.
| Category | homes |
|---|---|
| Apartments, 82% | 43,383 |
| Townhouses, 9% | 4,958 |
| Detached, 8% | 4,013 |
| Semi-detached and other, 1% | 349 |
Where the homes would go
Live applications by the Town’s Official Plan community. Each community links to its applications where OakvilleIQ has a page for the area.
| Community | Live projects | Homes proposed | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenorchy | 33 | 16,882 | 26% |
| Midtown Core | 11 | 15,395 | 24% |
| Joshua's Meadows | 15 | 12,486 | 19% |
| 407 West | 2 | 7,580 | 12% |
| Old Oakville | 28 | 3,614 | 6% |
| Uptown Core | 3 | 3,476 | 5% |
| QEW West Industrial District | 12 | 1,616 | 2% |
| Outside a mapped community | 11 | 1,389 | 2% |
| Bronte | 14 | 728 | 1% |
| Sixteen Hollow | 9 | 507 | 1% |
| College Park | 5 | 453 | 1% |
| West Oak Trails | 3 | 425 | 1% |
| Palermo Village | 2 | 312 | 0% |
| River Oaks | 1 | 247 | 0% |
| QEW East Industrial District | 6 | 188 | 0% |
| Iroquois Ridge (North) | 1 | 48 | 0% |
| Winston Park Industrial District | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Burloak Industrial District | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Winston West Industrial District | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Glen Abbey | 2 | 0 | 0% |
Homes proposed, by the year the first application arrived
Projects whose first application the Town received in each year since 2016; 2026 is a partial year.
| Category | homes |
|---|---|
| 2016, 47 projects | 6,027 |
| 2017, 50 projects | 1,240 |
| 2018, 55 projects | 1,383 |
| 2019, 48 projects | 2,834 |
| 2020, 36 projects | 4,956 |
| 2021, 65 projects | 11,533 |
| 2022, 55 projects | 5,485 |
| 2023, 24 projects | 10,549 |
| 2024, 30 projects | 12,911 |
| 2025, 25 projects | 6,195 |
| 2026, 18 projects | 7,295 |
The ten largest live projects
- 420 South Service Rd E6,945
- 3069 Dundas St W6,890
- 340 Burnhamthorpe Rd E6,420
- Green Ginger-Dundas Street East-Phase 2 Part of Lots 13 & 144,849
- 2264 Trafalgar Rd2,662
- 3056 Neyagawa Blvd2,278
- 588 Kerr St1,850
- 217 and 227 Cross Avenue and 571, 581 and 587-595 Argus Road1,784
- 590 Argus Rd1,750
- 2172 Wyecroft Rd1,616
Method and limits
The figures are computed from the Town of Oakville’s planning-applications layer, the same records behind the development applications database. One proposal usually files several applications that each carry the same unit count, so OakvilleIQ groups the folders into projects and takes the largest figure a project has filed. Summing the raw folders would roughly double the total.
What this cannot tell you: how many homes were actually built. The Town’s planning system records approvals, not occupancy, and building permits are a separate dataset OakvilleIQ does not yet hold. Nor does it include homes that need no planning application, such as additional residential units in existing houses. The figures are the Town’s at the date checked; a resubmission can change a project’s count.
Sources
Town of Oakville
Planning and Development Applications (open data)Town of Oakville
Site plan application layers (open data)
The OakvilleIQ Brief
New applications and decisions, once a week
What was filed, approved and appealed, each item linked to the Town's record.