Note
Oakville's proposed density sits inside a few school boundaries
Across 49 Oakville school attendance boundaries, 1,278 current development applications propose at least 269,817 residential units — but a single secondary-school boundary, White Oaks Secondary School's, accounts for nearly 38,000 of them. Three secondary boundaries together hold 30% of all proposed units.
Oakville has 1,278 current development applications of all types on file, proposing at least 269,817 residential units across the 543 sites that publish a unit count. Those applications sit inside 49 school attendance boundaries — but they do not sit evenly. White Oaks Secondary School's boundary alone holds 97 current applications proposing 37,960 units. That is one boundary absorbing roughly 14% of the town's entire proposed residential pipeline.
The next two largest secondary-school boundaries by proposed units are St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School (22,248 units across 155 applications) and Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School (22,213 units across 69 applications). Together, these three boundaries account for 82,421 proposed units — 30.5% of Oakville's total — inside three attendance areas.
Why it concentrates
Development applications follow existing infrastructure: transit corridors, arterial roads and mixed-use zones. In Oakville, the Dundas Street and Trafalgar Road corridors run through a small number of secondary-school boundaries, and the largest rezoning and official-plan-amendment applications cluster along them. White Oaks Secondary School's boundary, which runs along part of the Dundas corridor, holds three applications proposing more than 4,800 units each — including a 6,890-unit approved rezoning at 3069 Dundas Street West and a 6,420-unit official-plan-amendment under review at 340 Burnhamthorpe Road East.
What it means for buyers
A buyer choosing between two Oakville catchments today is also choosing between two very different futures of density. One boundary may have 97 active development files; the one next to it may have 16. The development section on each DistrictIQ school profile shows the current pipeline inside that boundary — how many applications, how many proposed units and which are the largest — so a buyer can see the trajectory, not just the snapshot.
Development application data was read from the static build artifact (app/data/catchment-development.json, generated September 25, 2026) which joins municipal development records to school attendance boundaries. An application is "current" under the repository's canonical currency rule: open by municipal status regardless of age, or with recorded municipal activity within the last five years. Unit counts are as published by the municipality in the application record; where no count is published, the application counts toward the total but contributes zero units, so all unit figures are floors. The on-site page /oakville/development resolves from the same dataset.
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