Oakville finished 3,543 homes in 2025, against a 33,000 target for 2031
The Town's State of Housing report, presented to Council on September 8, counts 3,543 completions and 2,104 starts in 2025 against a provincial pledge of 33,000 new homes by 2031, and says affordability is still the hard part.
The details
The headline numbers
Oakville's annual State of Housing report, presented to Council on September 8, 2026, puts last year's output at 3,543 housing units completed and 2,104 started, with another 1,994 units under construction at the end of the year. The Town measures that against the provincial target it has been assigned: 33,000 new housing units by 2031.
- 3,543
- 2,104
- 1,994
- 33,000 new units by 2031
The pipeline behind the numbers
The report also tallies the units moving through the Town's approval process at the end of 2025. It counts 45,443 units under review, 3,560 units with draft approval, and 13,831 units approved — a pipeline far larger than any single year's completions, though units at these stages can take years to be built, if they are built at all.
- 45,443
- 3,560
- 13,831
Rental and assisted housing
On the rental side, the report counts about 620 private rental units added between 2022 and 2025, bringing the total private rental inventory to 5,540 units as of December 2025. It also tracks seven assisted and supportive housing projects led by Halton Region in Oakville, totalling 242 units, of which 161 are complete.
The caveat the Town names
The Town frames the report as progress on construction, approvals and rental supply while being explicit that affordability continues to be a challenge. Readers are pointed to Oakville's Housing Data Hub for the underlying figures.