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Renting in Morningside Heights
No registered apartment buildings (3+ storeys, 10+ units) · 26,743 residents · Scarborough North CMHC survey zone
What rents cost here
Morningside Heights sits in the Scarborough North survey zone. In that zone's purpose-built buildings (October 2025, CMHC Rental Market Survey): a unit sitting vacant rented for an average of 1-bedroom $1,960 and 2-bedroom $2,301, while sitting tenants paid bachelor $1,321, 1-bedroom $1,607, 2-bedroom $1,772 and 3-bedroom+ $1,935. Just 6.3% of units changed tenants in the year to the survey. Vacancy rate: 2.3%. The zone's purpose-built rental stock is about 6,742 units. Average rents here rose 3.9% over the year (same-structure sample).
At the 2021 census, 15.5% of Morningside Heights households rented, 30.8% of renting households spent 30% or more of their income on housing, and 12.3% of renting households were in subsidized housing (median household income $117,000). 0% of homes were in apartment buildings of five storeys or more. The average household had 3.8 people and the median age was 38.
In 2025, police recorded across Morningside Heights: 130 assaults, 97 auto thefts, 40 break-and-enters and 37 robberies — robbery and auto theft run above the typical Toronto neighbourhood; assault and break-and-enter below. In 2026 so far (to June): 79 assaults, 58 auto thefts, 17 break-and-enters and 11 robberies. Toronto Police Service open data — figures describe the whole neighbourhood, not any one building.
Nearby: Malvern East · Malvern West · Highland Creek · Morningside · Woburn North