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The Yonge Street corridor, drawn as one market
Richmond Hill and Thornhill are drawn together because that is how the customer base behaves. The Yonge Street corridor runs through both, people shop and commute along it rather than across municipal lines, and a crew working the corridor covers both ends of it in a day.
What makes this territory unusual is that it contains two genuinely different housing markets, and a franchisee here runs two different service books at once.
Richmond Hill is a newer municipality. Only 15.1 percent of its 69,310 occupied dwellings were built before 1981, which is the lowest share of any territory we sell. That end of the corridor behaves like Vaughan: planned improvement work, finished basements, secondary suites, home offices, and upgrades to builder-grade kitchens and bathrooms that were never very good to begin with.
Thornhill is the opposite. It is an older postwar suburb straddling the Markham and Vaughan boundary, and it produces the failure-repair work that older stock always produces: roofs, windows, panels, driveways, original bathrooms. Thornhill is not a separate municipality and Statistics Canada does not publish a census profile for it, so we do not quote separate figures for it here. We will show you the dwelling count inside your actual boundary.
Richmond Hill by the numbers
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Occupied private dwellings | 69,310 |
| Built before 1981 | 10,465 (15.1%) |
| Owner households | 54,210 (78.2%) |
| Renter households | 15,100 (21.8%) |
| Median household income (2020) | $102,000 |
| Average sale price, July 2026 | $1,222,748 |
Newer stock at one end, postwar stock at the other, and a single crew covering both.
What a protected territory looks like here
The boundary follows the corridor rather than the municipal outline, which means it will cross the Richmond Hill, Markham and Vaughan lines in places. That is deliberate. Drawing to municipal boundaries here would split Thornhill down the middle and hand you half a customer base.
At 78.2 percent owner-occupied, this is a market where the person calling you owns the house. That matters more than it sounds. Owners authorise work, pay for quality, and come back. The 15,100 renter households are concentrated in the apartment stock along Yonge, which supports property management accounts rather than one-off residential jobs.
The median household income of $102,000 and an average sale price of $1,222,748 tell you the budgets are there. What they do not tell you is the pace: a corridor market like this one produces a steady flow rather than a rush, and franchisees who plan their schedule a fortnight ahead do better here than ones who chase same-day work.
Who this territory suits
This suits an owner who wants a mixed book and does not want to be dependent on a single type of work. When the newer end goes quiet in a soft economy, the older end keeps producing repairs, because failure does not wait for consumer confidence.
It also suits someone already living along the corridor. The one hour residency rule is easy to meet from Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Markham or Vaughan, and local knowledge of which streets have which housing vintage is worth real money in quoting.
No construction experience is required. We train owners to quote, schedule and manage trades through The Portal, our business management software.
Availability
Territory status: contact us for current availability. Franchisees must live within one hour of their office location.
What it costs
The total investment is $140,000, with $90,000 in cash to open, a 6 percent royalty and a 2 percent marketing fund. The investment page has the full schedule. See the franchise overview, the FAQ, or the other GTA territories.