Typical Toronto Home Mortgage Now Costs Families 110% of Income

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A home is shown for sale in Toronto’s West End on July 15, 2023. The Canadian Press/Graeme RoyMortgage payments for an average home now surpass 50 percent of median after-tax income in more than 60 percent of major Canadian cities, and are more than 100 percent in Vancouver and Toronto, a new study suggests.A Vancouver family earning the local median income now has to spend more than 112 percent of after-tax earnings on a monthly mortgage payment to buy a typical home, slightly more than 2 percent above the Toronto average of 110 percent, according to a recently released report from the Fraser Institute.

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