Caledon East and Southfields, Caledon: Homes, Prices, Water, Transit and Daily Life (2026)

Verified November 10, 2026 against TRREB, Town of Caledon, Region of Peel, Caledon Public Library and Government of Ontario sources.

Caledon East and Southfields are both in the Town of Caledon, but they are very different places to live. Caledon East is an older village on Airport Road, home to Caledon’s Town Hall and a stop on the Caledon Trailway. Southfields is a planned community built over the last two decades in the Mayfield West area, right on the Brampton border. This guide covers what each one offers buyers: prices, home types, transit, water and servicing, recreation and taxes.

Where Caledon East and Southfields are

Caledon East is a village on Airport Road, northwest of Bolton. The Town’s municipal offices and Council Chambers are at 6311 Old Church Road. The village grew up in the 1800s, and a railway station was built there in 1877. That rail line was later turned into the Caledon Trailway, which still runs through the village today. Caledon East became a police village in 1957 and joined the Town of Caledon when it was formed in 1974.

Southfields is the name used for the newer community in Mayfield West, at Caledon’s southern edge. The Town’s 2008 design guidelines for the “South Fields” community describe an area of about 445 hectares bounded by the Highway 410 extension to the south, Highway 10 to the west, Dixie Road to the east and the Etobicoke Creek and Humber River valleys to the north. The Mayfield West Community Secondary Plan, which set out the community, was adopted by Council in July 2006 and approved by the Ontario Municipal Board in October 2007. Local reporting notes that the village’s main road exits are on Kennedy Road, at Mayfield Road and at Old School Road.

Neither area has an official boundary that matches how people use the names, so confirm which planning area and which TRREB community a specific street falls in before comparing prices. Our guide on how to research a GTA neighbourhood before you buy lists the other checks worth doing.

Side by side

Home prices

TRREB publishes community figures for Caledon each quarter. When we checked, the Q3 2026 report was not yet out, so the most recent Caledon East numbers cover April to June 2026.

With only 35 sales, a few large or small homes can move the average noticeably, so compare any one property with recent sales of the same type nearby.

TRREB’s Caledon report lists Alton, Bolton East, Bolton North, Bolton West, Caledon East, Caledon Village, Cheltenham, Inglewood, Mono Mills, Palgrave and Rural Caledon. Southfields and Mayfield West do not appear as their own community, and TRREB does not say which community they are counted in. Rather than guess, we use Caledon as a whole for the second table.

These figures cover one month across the whole town, including Bolton, the villages and rural properties, so they are not a direct comparison with Caledon East’s quarterly numbers. The semi, condo townhouse and condo apartment rows rest on very few sales. In October 2026, Caledon homes sold at 96% of list price on average, with 6.5 months of inventory. From January to October 2026, Caledon recorded 632 sales at an average of $1,142,502 and a median of $1,022,500.

For Southfields, the semi and townhouse rows are the more useful guide for many buyers, since those home types make up much of what was planned there. Our Caledon real estate page covers the town’s other communities, and our guide to Heart Lake and Springdale in Brampton covers the Brampton neighbourhoods just south of the border.

What kinds of homes you will find

Caledon East

Caledon East is mainly detached houses: older homes in and around the village core and newer subdivisions on its edges. The village is small, so the choice at any one time is limited. In Q2 2026 there were 44 active listings in the community. Smaller infill projects do come up. In 2021, for example, the Town held a public meeting on an application for 12 detached lots and 25 rear-lane townhouses on Old Church Road and Russell Mason Court.

Southfields

Southfields was planned as a full community rather than a village extension. The Town’s 2008 design guidelines set out four housing areas:

• Low density: mainly detached and semi-detached houses, with some townhouse blocks, generally two storeys.
• Medium density: mostly townhouses of two to three storeys.
• High density: apartments and townhouses up to four storeys in the village centre.
• Mixed use: two to four storey buildings along the main street.

Those are the planned types, not a count of what was built, but they explain why freehold townhouses and semis are common there. If you are not sure how a link home differs from a semi or a stacked townhouse, our guide to house types has pictures of each.

Transit and roads

Neither community has a GO train station. Day-to-day transit depends on where you live.

• Argo on-demand pilot. The Town launched a 15-month on-demand transit pilot with Argo on September 14, 2026, running to the end of 2027. Its three zones are Bolton, Caledon East and Mayfield West/Southfields. You can travel within and between zones and transfer to Brampton Transit, YRT and GO at set transfer points. It does not drop off in neighbouring municipalities.
• Brampton Transit. The Town lists Brampton Transit routes 81 Mayfield West and 18 Dixie among the routes serving Caledon, which matters most for Southfields residents heading into Brampton.
• GO buses. The Town lists GO Route 37 (Brampton to Orangeville) and Route 38 (Bolton to Malton) as peak-period service in Caledon. Neither is described as running through Caledon East.

By car, Southfields sits right beside Highway 410, which the Town’s planning documents describe as the community’s southern edge. Caledon East is on Airport Road, a north-south regional road. The Province has also moved ahead with procurement for a further Highway 410 extension to connect with the planned Highway 413, though no opening date has been announced. We have not listed drive or transit times, because they vary too much by route and time of day. Our guide to living in Bolton covers GO Route 38 and Caledon’s other transit links in more detail.

Water and servicing

This is one of the clearest practical differences between the two.

• Caledon East draws its drinking water from Region of Peel municipal wells. Peel’s 2025 water quality report for the Palgrave and Caledon East system lists three Caledon East wells, and a 2024 Peel study recommended adding another well to the village supply. The same study notes that municipal sewers exist along part of Airport Road and that septic systems are also used in the area.
• Southfields is supplied with Lake Ontario water through the South Peel system, which Peel says serves southern Caledon including Bolton and Mayfield West.
• Rural homes outside the serviced communities may rely on private wells and septic systems.

Before you buy in or near Caledon East, ask whether the home is on municipal water, municipal sewer, or a private system. If there is a well or septic tank, our guide to buying a home with a well and septic system explains the tests and records to ask for.

Recreation, libraries and trails

Each community has a large Town recreation centre with a library branch inside.

Hours and programs change by season. Check the Town and library websites before you visit.

The Caledon Trailway is a 35 km non-motorized trail from Terra Cotta to Palgrave that passes through Caledon East, where the Trans Canada Trail Pavilion is located. The Town bought the old rail corridor in 1989, and in 1995 the Trailway became the first officially designated section of the Trans Canada Trail. It is a big part of daily life in the village for walkers, runners and cyclists.

Further afield, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s Albion Hills Conservation Park is at 16500 Regional Road 50, in the hills along the Humber River. In Southfields, the Etobicoke Creek and Humber River valley lands form the northern edge of the community.

Planning and growth

• Caledon East downtown. In October 2024, the Town bought about half an acre at the southwest corner of Airport Road and Emma Street, next to the Caledon Trailway, to support downtown revitalization. A Caledon East Revitalization Task Force advises on how it is used. Caledon East is also one of the Town’s Community Improvement Plan areas, which offer incentives to businesses for things like façades, signs and landscaping.
• Mayfield West Phase 2. North of Mayfield Road between Chinguacousy Road and Hurontario Street/Highway 410, the Province issued a Minister’s Zoning Order in July 2020, and Council adopted Official Plan Amendment 255 in October 2021. It adds about 105 hectares of developable land west of Southfields.
• Mayfield West transit station area. The Town’s Major Transit Station Areas study identifies a planned station area at Hurontario Street and Hutchinson Farm Lane, noting it needs further study.
• A third Southfields exit. Local reporting in 2024 said an extension of Abbotside Way to Heart Lake Road is planned as a third route out of the community, tied to a nearby industrial rezoning. No completion date has been given.

If you are buying near the edges of Southfields or close to Highway 410, look up nearby development and industrial applications on the Town’s website before you firm up an offer.

Property tax and land transfer tax

Caledon’s 2026 residential tax rate is 0.982207% of assessed value. It is made up of the Town (0.464570%), Peel Region (0.346430%), education (0.153%) and an infrastructure levy (0.018207%). The same rate applies in Caledon East and Southfields.

As an example, a home assessed by MPAC at $800,000 would have a 2026 bill of about $7,857.66 ($800,000 x 0.982207%). Your bill depends on your assessment, not the price you pay. Our GTA property tax rates page compares Caledon with other cities.

Caledon buyers pay Ontario’s land transfer tax. The extra municipal land transfer tax applies in the City of Toronto. On a home bought at the Caledon East Q2 median of $1,260,000, Ontario’s land transfer tax works out to $21,675 before any first-time buyer refund. See our worked examples of Ontario land transfer tax.

What buyers should check

• Water and sewer. In and around Caledon East, confirm whether the home is on municipal water and sewer or a private well and septic system.
• Which TRREB community the address is in. This decides which sales you compare against, especially for Southfields.
• Compare by home type. A freehold townhouse in Southfields should be compared with recent townhouse sales, not the Caledon average.
• Transit needs. If you will not drive every day, check that the Argo pilot hours and Brampton Transit routes fit your schedule, and remember the Argo pilot is set to run to the end of 2027.
• Nearby building. Mayfield West is still growing, and Caledon East has active plans for its downtown. Look up applications near the street you are considering.
• Your commute. Try the drive at rush hour before you buy.

This guide is general information, not legal, tax or mortgage advice.

FAQ

Sources

• TRREB, Caledon Community Report Q2 2026 and Community Reports
• TRREB, Market Watch, October 2026
• Town of Caledon, Transit and Argo on-demand pilot announcement
• Town of Caledon, South Fields Community Architectural Design Guidelines, Section 2 (2008)
• Town of Caledon, Mayfield West Secondary Plan and Major Transit Station Areas study
• Town of Caledon, Town acquires land in Caledon East, Community Improvement Plan and Caledon East subdivision public meeting notice (2021)
• Town of Caledon, Caledon East Community Complex expansion and Council Chambers notice
• Town of Caledon, 2026 property tax rates, Schedule A; Region of Peel, 2026 total tax rates
• Region of Peel, Drinking water in rural Caledon, 2025 Palgrave and Caledon East water quality report, 2025 South Peel water quality report and Caledon East water supply study (2024)
• Caledon Public Library, About your library; Central West Healthline listings for the Caledon East Community Complex, Southfields Community Centre, Southfields Village library and Town Hall
• Peel 211, Caledon Trailway; TRCA, Hiking (Albion Hills Conservation Park)
• Government of Ontario, Land transfer tax
• Caledon Citizen, Abbotside Way extension (February 2024), New library branch in Caledon East (September 2023) and Highway 410 extension RFP (December 2025) (local news, background only)
• Wikipedia, Caledon East (village history only)

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