Stittsville real estate
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Stittsville is a suburban community immediately southwest of Kanata, about 20 km west of downtown Ottawa, in the former Goulbourn Township. Its urban area is Stittsville Ward, and the village it grew from was founded in 1854, when its first post office was built.
Stittsville houses for sale range from homes near Old Stittsville and Main Street to the newer subdivisions on the ward’s edges.
What Stittsville is, and where it came from
A former village in Ottawa’s west end that keeps its own main street, with newer neighbourhoods, parks and the Trans Canada Trail. Goulbourn Township was settled from 1818 by Irish soldiers after the War of 1812, and the village took its name from Jackson Stitt, its first postmaster, in 1854. The original village, now called Old Stittsville, centred on Carp Road.
The Carleton County Fire of 1870 destroyed almost all of Stittsville. Villagers rebuilt around the new railway, which later became part of the Canadian Pacific. The last train ran on January 14, 1990, and the rail line is now a section of the Trans Canada Trail, running along Abbott Street East, across Stittsville Main Street.
Buildings that survived
- Kemp’s Tavern on Hazeldean Road, built in 1868, one of the few buildings left standing after the 1870 fire.
- Green’s Hotel, 1510 Stittsville Main Street, built in 1890 or 1894 as the Pacific Hotel for railway travellers.
- The Bradley/Craig barn and farmhouse at 590 Hazeldean Road, the barn built in 1873.
Why Stittsville Main Street is the centre of town
Stittsville Main Street is the community’s main commercial road. The Trans Canada Trail crosses it along Abbott Street East, and Green’s Hotel still stands on it at number 1510. Around it, the Royal Canadian Legion branch meets in the former Orange Hall, and Stittsville United Church, one of the oldest congregations in Stittsville, keeps its 1883 brick chapel within the current buildings.
The town’s services are close at hand: Ottawa Fire Services station 81, the Ottawa Police Service’s Huntmar station, the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library and a ServiceOntario office.
Where Stittsville is growing and the new Stittsville houses for sale it adds
- 2006: the ward was redrawn to the urban community, adding a small part of former Kanata around the Canadian Tire Centre.
- 2014: the new Blackstone subdivision moved into Stittsville Ward.
- 2020: the ward boundary review added land on the northern and southern edges for proposed housing developments.
So a Stittsville search can mean a house near Old Stittsville and Main Street, or a newer one in the subdivisions on its edges, and the two are worth comparing separately.
How to get around Stittsville
The main roads are Stittsville Main Street, Hazeldean Road and Carp Road, with Kanata directly to the northeast. No O-Train line reaches Stittsville. For walking and cycling, the Trans Canada Trail follows the old rail line through the middle of the community.
Which school boards serve Stittsville
Three school boards are represented in Stittsville: the Ottawa Catholic School Board, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est. Its high schools are Sacred Heart Catholic High School, the Frederick Banting Secondary Alternate Program and École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais.
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Buy or sell in Stittsville with The Reality Group
Stittsville mixes a village core with newer subdivisions on its edges, so we price and search each against its own kind of street.
Buyers start on our buying page and can add Buyer Concierge Services; sellers start with how we sell a home and home staging and Seller Concierge Services. Our team of Ottawa real estate agents works with buyers and sellers in Stittsville and across Ottawa.
Mirna Botros
Real Estate Agent · eXp Realty, Brokerage
Mirna’s bio: “Since 2020, Mirna has developed a particular expertise in Ottawa’s west end while continuing to serve buyers and sellers throughout the greater Ottawa region.”
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What Ottawa’s September 2026 market figures mean for Stittsville
The Ottawa Real Estate Board reports the market for the whole city, not for Stittsville on its own. Read the figures below as the backdrop. The price of a particular home comes from recent sales of similar homes nearby, which is what a comparative market analysis looks at. The full report is in our September 2026 report, one of our monthly Ottawa housing market updates.
All of Ottawa, September 2026
- Average residential sale price
- $685,640
- down 1.0% from a year earlier
- MLS® HPI composite benchmark
- $623,500
- down 0.3% from a year earlier
- Months of inventory
- 4.8
- 4.5 in August
- Median days on market
- 27
- 22 a year earlier
Source: the Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB), release of 2026-10-05. These are city-wide figures for all of Ottawa, not figures for Stittsville. Read the full September 2026 report.
Questions
Questions about Stittsville
Is Stittsville a good place to live?
Stittsville suits buyers who want a suburb with a village core of its own: Stittsville Main Street, the Trans Canada Trail along the old rail line, a library branch, a fire station and a ServiceOntario office, with Kanata and its technology parks directly to the northeast. Three school boards run schools here.
The trade-off is transit. Stittsville is about 20 km west of downtown and no O-Train line reaches it, so most trips start on Stittsville Main Street, Hazeldean Road or Carp Road.
Whether it suits you comes down to where you work, and whether you want Old Stittsville or a newer subdivision. Ourbuying page explains how we search with you.
What is Stittsville like?
A suburban community grown from an 1854 village, with Stittsville Main Street at its centre, the Trans Canada Trail along the old rail line, and new subdivisions added to the ward in 2014 and after the 2020 boundary review.
What is the commute from Stittsville to downtown Ottawa?
Stittsville is about 20 km west of downtown, and no O-Train line reaches it. We do not quote a travel time, which depends on your street, your route and the hour.
Kanata or Stittsville?
Kanata is a planned former city with the technology parks and both sides of Highway 417. Stittsville, immediately southwest, grew from a village and keeps its own Main Street. Read our Kanata page to compare.
Barrhaven or Stittsville?
Barrhaven, about 17 km southwest of downtown, was part of Nepean, and has Transitway stations and Line 2 next door at Limebank. Stittsville, about 20 km west, was part of Goulbourn Township and has no rapid transit station. See our Barrhaven page.
Which ward is Stittsville in?
Stittsville Ward (Ward 6), which covers the urban community.
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Sources
Each source below was read on 2026-10-14.
- Wikipedia, Stittsville
- Wikipedia, Stittsville Ward
- Wikipedia, Kanata, Ontario