Forest Hill

Around the Neighbourhood

Cultural landmarks: Upper Canada College and The Bishop Strachan School, two of the country’s best-known private schools, both sit beside Forest Hill Village and anchor the neighbourhood’s identity.

Hot local spots: Forest Hill Village at Spadina and Lonsdale is the local high street, a compact run of cafes, bakeries, specialty food shops and salons (think a morning coffee and a bagel, not a night out), with What A Bagel and Aroma Espresso Bar among the regulars.

Parks & green space: the neighbourhood’s curving, tree-lined streets do a lot of the green work, with the Cedarvale Ravine and Beltline trail a short walk west.

Your Typical Neighbour

Forest Hill is wealthy and established, but the numbers are more bimodal than the mansions suggest. Along the southern and central streets it’s affluent families in large houses; toward Eglinton and Bathurst it’s a denser, more renter-heavy mix in apartment buildings, which is why high-rise apartments are actually the most common dwelling type across the broader Forest Hill North area and renters outnumber owners overall. Education levels are high, with well over half of adults holding a bachelor’s degree or more. It’s old Toronto money, private-school families, and a working professional and renter population sharing the same postal code.

Source: City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profile, Forest Hill North 

What We Love

The streets. Few neighbourhoods in the city have this much mature canopy and this many handsome houses in one place, and the village gives you a genuine walkable core without the noise of a big retail strip. The schools are a real draw for families, the new LRT finally solves the east-west commute, and the range of housing means the Forest Hill name isn’t strictly for buyers with eight-figure budgets.

What We Don’t Love

It can be quiet to the point of sleepy, and the village, lovely as it is, closes early and isn’t where you go for a night out. The gap between the mansion streets and the apartment blocks is stark, and the prime end of the market is among the priciest in the country. The Eglinton and Bathurst corner is also in for ongoing development now that the LRT is open.

Real Estate

Forest Hill is, at its core, large detached houses on generous, treed lots, with the grandest concentrated on the prime central streets. The broader neighbourhood also includes a meaningful supply of apartments and condos along Eglinton and Bathurst, including newer transit-oriented projects like The Forest Hill Condos at Eglinton and Bathurst, completed in 2024 with a lobby connected directly to the Line 5 station. That mix gives buyers more entry points than the house prices alone would suggest. 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

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School
West Preparatory Junior Public School
North Preparatory Junior Public School
Cedarvale Community School
J R Wilcox Community School
Oriole Park Junior Public School

SENIOR SCHOOLS

Forest Hill Collegiate Institute

PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Alive Montessori & Private School
Forest Hill Montessori School
The Bishop Strachan School
Upper Canada College Prep School

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

St. Michael’s College School
Holy Rosary Catholic School

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

Transit

Line 5 Eglinton, open since February 2026, runs along the north edge with a Forest Hill station at Eglinton and Bathurst, giving the neighbourhood a fast east-west connection for the first time. The St Clair streetcar and the Line 1 subway at St Clair West and St Clair are a short distance south and east. Drivers use Avenue Road, Bathurst and Spadina Road to reach downtown.