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Markham
Heritage main streets, golf-course neighbourhoods and a downtown still being built, with more than 1,500 tech companies in between — Markham is York Region's largest city, and the one its own city hall calls Canada's high-tech capital.
Markham sits directly north of Toronto, in the southeast of York Region. Its 2021 census population of 338,503 makes it the largest of York Region's nine municipalities. It keeps two historic villages, Unionville and Thornhill, on one side, and a corridor of technology companies along Highway 7 on the other — more than 1,500 high-tech and life-sciences firms by the City's count. People house-hunting here usually weigh three things first: the schools, whether a neighbourhood is established or new, and the commute into Toronto.
Overview
Markham's older roots are in its centre and west. Main Street Unionville still looks like the village it was, with the City's Varley Art Gallery on the street and Toogood Pond Park just north of it. Thornhill's historic village core runs along Yonge Street and is a designated heritage conservation district; this page covers only the Markham side, east of Yonge. Beyond the villages, most residential areas were built from the 1980s on, with schools, shopping and community centres planned into each neighbourhood.
The newer face of the city is downtown and in the northeast. Downtown Markham is rising around Unionville GO Station and Highway 7, and York University's Markham Campus opened there in 2024. Further east, Cornell is a newer community planned around walking, with the hospital and a community centre and library built right into it. Along the city's eastern edge, part of Rouge National Urban Park keeps farmland and forest inside the city limits. Population growth is measured — up just 2.9% between the 2016 and 2021 censuses (see Chart C2) — but with the tech employers here, the everyday pace is anything but slow.
Neighbourhoods
Unionville
The old village main street is still in business, with the Varley Art Gallery and Toogood Pond Park within walking distance
Detached, townhomes
Cornell
A newer community in the northeast planned around walking, with Markham Stouffville Hospital and the community centre and library inside it
Townhomes, semis, detached
Berczy
A family community north of 16th Avenue, home to Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School
Detached, townhomes
Angus Glen
Built around the golf club of the same name, which hosted the 2002 and 2007 Canadian Opens and the golf competition of the 2015 Pan Am Games
Detached
Thornhill
A historic village shared by Markham and Vaughan; the part east of Yonge Street is in Markham, and its old core is a heritage conservation district (this page covers the Markham side only)
Detached, townhomes
Downtown Markham
The new downtown still under construction, next to Unionville GO Station; York University's Markham Campus opened here in 2024
Condos, townhomes
Schools & transit
Schools.Four boards run Markham's publicly funded schools, mainly the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) and the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB). The two French boards also serve the city — the French public board, Conseil scolaire Viamonde, and the French Catholic board, Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir, which has a school in Markham, École catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys. Public high schools include Unionville, Markville, Markham District, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Bur Oak and Milliken Mills, with Unionville known for its arts program; Catholic high schools include Father Michael McGivney, St. Augustine, St. Brother André and St. Robert. For post-secondary, York University's Markham Campus opened downtown in 2024. School catchments are set by the boards and change from time to time, so check any specific address with the board before you buy.
Getting around.Most commuters use the GO train on the Stouffville line. Markham has four stations — Unionville, Centennial, Markham and Mount Joy — with trains running to Union Station in downtown Toronto, and GO buses filling in when trains are not running. York Region Transit (YRT) runs local buses across the city, and its Viva rapid transit service runs east–west along Highway 7, ending at Cornell in the east. Drivers mainly use Highways 404 and 407. Check the official GO Transit and YRT schedules for current times.
Market data
September 2026 · updated monthly with the market report
The five main types total 245 sales, matching the citywide total of 245.
The month in one line: A balanced market. The sales-to-new-listings ratio sits just above the balanced line, inventory is a little over four months, and prices have eased slightly from last year — neither side has a clear upper hand.
For the full monthly picture — sales-to-new-listings ratio, benchmark prices and the breakdown by home type — see the Markham section of the market report. See the market report