Lakeview

Your Typical Neighbour

Lakeview is an established, family-and-empty-nester south Mississauga neighbourhood, historically more working-and-middle-class than the wealthier waterfront pockets to the west, with a strong ownership base in detached houses and a growing condo population at the water’s edge. It draws people who want lakeside life and a Toronto-adjacent location without the Port Credit or Lorne Park price tag. 

Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile, Mississauga

What We Love

The water and the value. You get marinas, a golf course, and two genuinely good waterfront parks at the foot of the neighbourhood, plus one of the shorter hops into Toronto in all of Mississauga, all at prices that undercut the fancier neighbours. The streets are quiet and the lots are often generous. And Lakeview Village promises to add the walkable waterfront district the area has always lacked.

What We Don’t Love

It’s still rough around the edges in spots, with a mix of older housing and light industry near the water, and there’s no real walkable main street yet. Transit is bus-dependent unless you drive to a GO station. And Lakeview Village, exciting as it is, means years of major construction along the waterfront before the payoff arrives, so buyers should go in clear-eyed about the timeline.

Real Estate

Lakeview is mostly older detached bungalows and two-storeys on good-sized lots, with a steady stream of teardowns and custom rebuilds, plus a small but rising number of townhomes and condos. The defining force going forward is Lakeview Village, the 177-acre redevelopment of the former coal-plant lands, now actively under construction and planned to deliver thousands of new homes alongside parks, a new street network and Ontario’s first wastewater-powered district energy system over a 15-to-20-year build-out. Expect it to lift the whole neighbourhood’s profile, and prices, as it takes shape. New to the market? Start with our First-Time Buyer guide.

(Current prices and days on market appear in the live statistics block below, updated quarterly.)

Schools

There is a bit of everything in this hood. Public, Separate, Catholic, and private.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

ÉÉ Micheline-Saint-Cyr
Allan A Martin Sr PS
Janet I. McDougald PS
Mineola PS
Cawthra Park SS
Corsair PS
Westacres PS
É Élém Horizon Jeunesse
ÉS Gaétan Gervais

CATHOLIC & PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Blyth Academy Mississauga – Cawthra
ISNA Islamic School
Star Academy
The Toronto French School – Mississauga
The Holy Trinity Catholic School
ÉSC Sainte-Famille
St Dominic School
Queen of Heaven School
St Edmund School
ÉÉC René-Lamoureux
St Paul SS
St James Catholic Global Learning Centre

For school rankings and Fraser Institute scores, see our interactive Mississauga school map.

Transit

Lakeview runs on MiWay buses locally. There’s no GO Train station in the neighbourhood, but Long Branch and Port Credit GO on the Lakeshore West line are both a short trip away with frequent service to Union Station. A future GO station at Lakeview Village has been discussed but is not yet confirmed. The Hazel McCallion (Hurontario) LRT runs along Hurontario Street to the west and does not serve Lakeview directly; it remains under construction, with completion projected toward 2028. Drivers use Lakeshore Road East and the QEW.