Living in Kerr Village

Kerr Village is the closest thing South Oakville has to a genuine urban main street outside downtown. Kerr Street runs south from the rail corridor to Lakeshore Road West with continuous storefronts along much of it, and the surrounding blocks are the densest residential fabric in the area covered by this site.

It is also the area changing fastest. The Town has designated it a growth area, and the planning applications on file here are consistently taller and denser than elsewhere in South Oakville.

The result is a district in two states at once: long-standing independent businesses and small older homes alongside recently completed mid-rise buildings.

• Kerr Village — An officially designated Town of Oakville growth area, and the name of the local business improvement district.

The most varied housing mix of any area on this site. Small early-twentieth-century houses on tight lots sit next to purpose-built apartment buildings and recent mid-rise infill, sometimes on the same block.

Lot sizes are noticeably smaller than in the areas either side, and a larger share of residents rent.

This site publishes no prices, sales data or listing counts of any kind. Housing here is described by age, form and street pattern only.

Well served by small parks rather than large ones, with the Sixteen Mile Creek valley forming its eastern edge and providing the area's main green corridor.

The lake is reached at the southern end of Kerr Street.

3 publicly funded schools sit inside this area. Attendance is set by school board boundaries, not by the area described on this page — confirm any catchment directly with the board before it affects a decision.

7 licensed child care centres operate in Kerr Village, from the Ontario Ministry of Education’s licensed facilities dataset. At least one offers French-language programming. Licensing status changes; confirm current availability with the operator.

The best-connected area in South Oakville. Oakville GO is close, Kerr Street is a major transit route, and the QEW is reached via Dorval Drive or Trafalgar Road.

It is also the most walkable: a genuine amount of daily errand-running here can be done on foot, which is not true of most of the town.

More on the two stations and the wider network in our guide to getting around South Oakville.

33 active planning applications are on file with the Town of Oakville in this area. Status and dates are as the Town publishes them and change without notice.

See development across South Oakville.

From the 2021 Census of Population, aggregated across the 12 dissemination areas that make up our Kerr Village coverage area. Averages are weighted by population, so a small area does not count the same as a large one.

South Oakville reads west to east along the lake. Kerr Village sits between West Oakville and Old Oakville.