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Pickering
Right next to Toronto, with a waterfront and a growing north end.
Pickering in numbers.
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Price trend, Jan to Sep 2026
Pickering average sale price by month, against the Durham average. The selected month is highlighted.
Average price by town
What the typical home sold for in each Durham town. Pickering is highlighted.
Durham sales by property type
Share of sales across all of Durham Region by style of home.
Supply vs. demand in Pickering
New listings against homes sold, month by month.
Pickering breakdown
Pickering against the Durham Region figure, for the period you picked above.
Pickering month by month, 2026
Every month of 2026 so far for Pickering. The period you picked is highlighted.
10-year average
2016 to 2025Terms: MOI = months of inventory. SNLR = sales-to-new-listings ratio. DOM = days on market. SP/LP = sale price as a percent of list price. Data from the Central Lakes Association of REALTORS® (CLAR) and Habistat, January to September 2026. Property type figures are for all of Durham Region. For general information only.
Why people choose Pickering.
Why people move here
Pickering GO station, quick access to Highway 401 and the Frenchman's Bay waterfront put you at Toronto's doorstep.
Homes and neighbourhoods
Established neighbourhoods near the lake, condos around Pickering Town Centre and new homes in the growing Seaton community.
Events and community
Waterfront activities at Frenchman's Bay, Petticoat Creek Conservation Area and city festivals.
Pickering is growing fast.
How many people call Pickering home, and how fast that number is rising.
Growth, 2021 to 2025
Census check: Pickering counted 91,771 people in the 2016 census and 99,186 in 2021, a change of up 8.1%.
Census counts: 2021 Census of Population summary from the Region of Durham. Estimates: Region of Durham Monitoring of Growth Trends, which adds an allowance for census undercount, so estimates run higher than census counts. The 2026 figure is our projection, not an official count. Canada's 2026 census results are not out until 2027.
How Pickering became Pickering.
From the first settlers to today, the moments that shaped the town.
Where the name comes from
Originally called Edinburgh, the township was renamed in 1792 after Pickering, Yorkshire, England.
Indigenous roots
In the 1400s the Wyandot lived here. The large Draper Site village has been found, and Frenchman's Bay is named for the Seneca village Gandatsetiagon.
Jesuit missionary François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon reaches Gandatsetiagon, an Onondaga (possibly Seneca) village on Frenchman's Bay. It is one of the earliest recorded European visits to this stretch of Lake Ontario shoreline.
The area becomes a township. It is first called Edinburgh and then renamed Pickering after Pickering, Yorkshire, England, in the early years of Upper Canada, when land along the lake was being surveyed and settled.
A local trail is converted into Kingston Road, which boosts settlement. In 1812 the road carries soldiers and supplies during the War of 1812, bringing military traffic through the township.
Quakers led by Timothy Rogers settle in the area. By 1809 the township has about 180 residents, mostly living along Duffins Creek, where water power for mills made the land attractive.
The Grand Trunk Railway reaches the township, connecting local farms to markets. Even so, falling demand for wheat later in the century brings hard times, and the township loses over 40 percent of its population.
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station opens with four reactors on the Lake Ontario shoreline, after Squires Beach was cleared for it in 1966. It becomes a defining landmark of the Pickering waterfront.
On January 1, Ontario County is dissolved and the Town of Pickering is formed within the Regional Municipality of Durham. The southeastern portion of the old township goes to the neighbouring town of Ajax.
Pickering becomes the City of Pickering. By the 2021 census its population is 99,186, and the new Seaton community in the north has plans for thousands of additional homes.
In January the federal government formally cancels the long-proposed Pickering Airport, which began with land expropriations in 1972, and starts transferring most of the remaining lands to Rouge National Urban Park.
Units 5 to 8 at Pickering Nuclear are scheduled to go offline in September for a $26.8 billion refurbishment, with a regulator hearing in October. The work is planned to add at least 30 more years of power. By September the average home sells for $923,270, up 0.3% since January.
History summarized from Wikipedia: Pickering, Ontario, OPG: Pickering refurbishment project. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA.
Famous people from Pickering.
Politicians, athletes, Olympians and entertainers who were born, raised or have lived in and around Pickering.
Shawn Mendes
Singer-songwriterGrew up in Pickering. Pop star with multiple Grammy nominations.
Kailen Sheridan
Olympic soccer playerBorn in Pickering. Goalkeeper on Canada’s gold-medal team at the Tokyo Olympics.
Kris Holden-Ried
ActorBorn in Pickering. Best known for playing Dyson on the series Lost Girl.
Dayne St. Clair
Soccer playerBorn in Pickering. Professional goalkeeper who plays for Canada’s national team.
Glenn Healy
Hockey player and broadcasterFormer NHL goaltender and Stanley Cup winner from Pickering.
Wayne Arthurs
PoliticianFormer Ontario MPP for Pickering–Ajax–Uxbridge.
Compiled from public sources, mainly Pantheon: Famous people from Pickering, and the people’s public biographies. “From” means born, raised or lived here, and some have since moved away. This list is for local interest only. We have no connection to the people listed, and they do not endorse us or our services.
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