Collingwood
A shipbuilding town that became a four-season resort town, with a preserved main street and a housing market split between locals and weekenders.
Homes for sale in Collingwood
374 on the market now — each with its school boundaries, sale history and what comparable homes actually sold for.
What it is like
Collingwood’s downtown is one of the better-preserved Victorian main streets in the province, and the housing around it is a mix of century homes, postwar bungalows and a great deal of newer subdivision and condominium development pushed by demand from the Greater Toronto Area. The split between the year-round population and the recreational buyer runs through everything — including short-term rental rules, which the town regulates and which anyone buying with rental income in mind needs to read before committing.
Getting around
Colltrans runs local bus routes, with connections toward Wasaga Beach and Barrie. There is no passenger rail service; the nearest GO rail is Barrie, roughly an hour away. Highway 26 and the 400 are the road connection south, and the drive from Toronto is around two hours without traffic.
Things to see and do
The waterfront on Georgian Bay has the harbour, the trail network and the Collingwood Terminals grain elevators, which remain the town’s most recognisable structure. The Georgian Trail runs along an old rail line toward Meaford. Blue Mountain is fifteen minutes west, and the Collingwood Museum and the theatre programme keep the downtown busy outside ski season.
Shops, restaurants and work
Hurontario Street is the retail and restaurant spine, with independent shops in heritage buildings and the larger-format retail out toward Highway 26. Employment is tourism, health care, construction and a growing remote-working population — the last of which is the reason a good deal of the newer housing exists.
Schools nearby
Within about 2.5km of the middle of the neighbourhood, with the Ministry of Education’s EQAO results where the school reported them. A rating is one measure of one thing, and school boundaries are set by the board rather than by distance — check any individual listing for the boundaries that actually apply to it.
| School | Level | EQAO |
|---|---|---|
| Admiral Collingwood Elementary School | Elementary | 7.6 / 10 |
| Cameron Street Public School | Elementary | 7.2 / 10 |
| St Marys - Collingwood Separate School | Elementary | 7.1 / 10 |
| ÉÉC Notre-Dame-de-la-Huronie | Elementary | 7.1 / 10 |
| Mountain View Public School | Elementary | 7.1 / 10 |
| Our Lady of the Bay Catholic High School | Secondary | 7.1 / 10 |
Sale figures are aggregates from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board’s MLS® System over the last twelve months. School information: Ontario Ministry of Education and EQAO. Population, income and age: Statistics Canada 2021 Census, averaged across the dissemination areas this neighbourhood covers.