Metro Storage Rates

Median online asking rates for standard self storage unit sizes across Canada’s major metros, surveyed by JBW Commercial. Rates are monthly street rates before taxes and promotions, and each metro figure counts facilities rather than listings. Each metro is shown in the unit type most of its facilities price — climate-controlled, or non-climate drive-up space in markets where heated units are scarce — named in the Type column. Use this page to track where street rates are moving market by market, and click a metro name for its full census-wide survey.

Median Asking Rates by Metro

Metro names in maroon link to that market’s full census-wide survey. Median monthly asking rates in Canadian dollars, rounded to the nearest dollar. Median $/sq ft is the simple average of the three sizes’ median rates on a rentable square foot basis. Change vs last week is the percent change in Median $/sq ft from the prior survey, for the same unit type and counting only facilities actually re-read that week; green is up, red is down. Facilities surveyed shows rate-publishing facilities over the total facilities in the metro. n/a means the metro has not yet been surveyed, the sample was too small to report, or there is no prior survey to compare.

Weekly History

• September 12, 2026: Ottawa second pass: two duplicate U-Haul listings were merged, trimming the census to 65 facilities, so the 33 that contribute a rate now cover just over half the market. Every other facility was checked again: Dymon’s 12 sites and 11 independents still quote by enquiry only, and 8 have no website of their own. Medians are unchanged, with drive-up 10×10 space at $217.
• September 12, 2026: Toronto: Vaultra Storage’s buildings on Fairbank Avenue in Toronto and Lenworth Drive in Mississauga now trade as Prime Storage, which also runs sites in Ajax, Vancouver and Edmonton. Prime Storage now counts as an institutional operator in all three markets; medians are unchanged.
• September 12, 2026: Vancouver: seven U-Haul locations now contribute a rate, lifting coverage to 76 of its 127 facilities and the share of the market publishing a price to 68 percent. Their climate-controlled 10×10 units sit well below the metro median, which eases to $340, with drive-up space at $318.
• September 12, 2026: Saskatoon second pass: 15 of its 42 facilities now contribute a rate, and just over half the market publishes a price. The drive-up 10×10 median eases to $179, 8 percent below the national median. A StorageMart marketing listing, a second listing for the Access Storage airport site and the former Besco Storage, whose two sites now trade as Mini Mall Storage, were merged, three portable-container and RV businesses now count with the yards, and a commercial warehouse was removed from the census.
• September 12, 2026: Montreal second pass: 89 of its 193 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 80, with both Pandora Self Storage sites, LeBox3’s Longueuil and Chambly sites and two Bluebird sites among the additions. The climate-controlled 10×10 median holds at $248 and drive-up space at $285. Five duplicate listings were merged, three vehicle and valet-storage businesses now count with the yards, and four businesses that are not self-storage were removed from the census.
• September 12, 2026: Quebec City: the Bluebird Self Storage sites on boulevard Charest Ouest and rue Seigneuriale now trade as SmartStop and publish a rate, lifting coverage to 35 contributing facilities. The climate-controlled 10×10 median holds at $195, while the 10×20 eases to $328.
• September 12, 2026: Quebec City census tightened to 74 facilities: InStorage turned out to be the StorageMart site on rue Clemenceau and Entreposage Domestique the same business as Entreposage St-Sacrement, and both were merged, while five container-delivery and vehicle-storage businesses now count with the yards. Medians are unchanged, with 33 facilities contributing a rate, and the share of the market publishing a price rises to 49 percent.
• September 12, 2026: Nanaimo survey expanded: 19 of its 30 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 16, and two thirds of the market publishes a price. The drive-up 10×10 median is $200, 3 percent above the national median, with climate-controlled space at $210, 4 percent below it. Big Green Storage, which rents only shipping-container units, now counts with the yards.
• September 12, 2026: Victoria survey expanded: 22 of its 35 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 18, and 71 percent of the market publishes a price. Drive-up and climate-controlled 10×10 space both run a median $360, 84 and 64 percent above the national median and the highest of any market surveyed. A moving company’s household-goods warehouse was removed from the census.
• September 12, 2026: Edmonton survey expanded: 46 of its 84 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 29. The climate-controlled 10×10 median is $277, 26 percent above the national median, while drive-up space at $194 sits level with it, so heated units carry a premium of 37 to 68 percent across the sizes. Nine RV, vehicle and container businesses now count with the yards, and U-Store-It and Try Storage count as regional operators. Promotions now cover 67 percent of Edmonton’s advertised units, so Winnipeg, at 78 percent, now has the heaviest discounting of any market surveyed.
• September 12, 2026: Calgary survey expanded: 54 of its 89 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 38, and two thirds of the market publishes a price. The climate-controlled 10×10 median is $248, 13 percent above the national median, with drive-up space at $184, 6 percent below it. Seven RV, boat and container yards now count with the yards, a second Sentinel Springbank listing and a second Alberta South Storage listing were merged, and a garage-bay business and a premium garage-condo development were removed from the census.
• September 12, 2026: Toronto survey expanded: 194 of its 298 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 151, and two thirds of the market publishes a price. The climate-controlled 10×10 median is $277, 26 percent above the national median, with drive-up space at $237. XYZ Storage, Green Storage, Self-Stor and Dayton, which run 21 sites between them, now count as regional operators; five former Bluebird sites now trading as SmartStop and six extra listings for XYZ’s seven buildings were merged, and Formula Storage, Vault Self Storage and Centron now trade as Apple Self Storage.
• September 12, 2026: A unit-classification correction: lockers priced at $16 to $42 had been counted as 5×5 units and are now excluded. Vancouver’s drive-up 10×10 median moves to $320 and climate-controlled space to $346; Halifax, Winnipeg and Kelowna shift by a few dollars at some sizes. A duplicate SmartStop Cochrane listing was also merged in Calgary, where the drive-up 10×10 median is now $191 and climate-controlled space $256.
• September 12, 2026: Vancouver survey expanded: 69 of its 127 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 31, and 60 percent of the market publishes a price. The drive-up 10×10 median is $310 and climate-controlled space $351, 59 and 60 percent above the national median, with Surrey and White Rock roughly a third below the North Shore. StorGuard, Self Storage Depot and NationWide, which run 13 sites between them, now count as regional operators rather than independents.
• September 12, 2026: Montreal survey expanded: 80 of its 205 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 42, including all 20 Montreal Mini-Storage locations. The climate-controlled 10×10 median holds at $248, 13 percent above the national median, while drive-up space runs $285. A second Depotium Lachine listing was merged and five portable-container and vehicle-storage businesses now count with the yards. Saskatoon, where 14 of 49 facilities contribute a rate, is now the thinnest sample surveyed.
• September 12, 2026: Winnipeg survey expanded: 29 of its 57 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 19, and more than half the market publishes a price. With the independents in, the drive-up 10×10 median settles at $239, 22 percent above the national median, and climate-controlled space at $245. St Anne’s Self Storage turned out to be the Access Storage site at the same address and a second Total Storage row the same Headingley building; both were merged, and nine RV, boat and sea-can yards now count with the yards.
• September 12, 2026: Ottawa survey expanded: 30 of its 67 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 16. The drive-up 10×10 median is $217, 11 percent above the national median, with climate-controlled space at $235. Dymon, the market’s second-largest operator with 12 sites, publishes no per-size prices. 613 Storage is now Mini Mall Storage on Moodie Drive and was merged, six yards were reclassified, and a peer-to-peer garage marketplace and two contractor-yard businesses were removed from the census.
• September 12, 2026: Discount depth on every page now treats a token-priced promotion — a $1 first month — as a free period rather than a 99 percent discount, so the “deepest offer” figures for Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax now read 75 percent. Street-rate medians are unchanged.
• September 12, 2026: Halifax survey expanded: 25 of its 37 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 16, and nearly three quarters of the market publishes a price. Every size now reads from at least 7 facilities; the drive-up 10×10 median is $215, 10 percent above the national median, with climate-controlled space at $251.
• September 12, 2026: Saskatoon survey expanded: 14 of its 49 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 9. The drive-up 10×10 median is $184, 5 percent below the national median, with heated space at $220, and the 10×15 is no longer withheld. A duplicate listing was merged, four yards that rent only RV, boat or container space now count with the yards, and two businesses renting industrial bays or records storage were removed from the census.
• September 12, 2026: Regina re-read: two more independents now publish a rate — That Storage Place and SecureGard — lifting coverage to half the market and giving Regina a full 5×5 reading for the first time: $139 drive-up and $164 heated, 4 facilities each. A StorageMart listing filed under Regina turned out to be the chain’s Saskatoon site on Portage Avenue and was removed.
• September 12, 2026: Kelowna survey expanded: 10 of its 21 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 3, and 57 percent of the market publishes a price. Its drive-up 10×10 median is $209, 7 percent above the national median, with climate-controlled space at $218. Tytan Storage, which rents only vehicle and RV stalls, now counts with the RV and boat yards rather than as a storage facility.
• September 12, 2026: Quebec City survey expanded: 31 of its 81 facilities now contribute a rate, up from 4, and its climate-controlled 10×10 median settles at $195, 11 percent below the national median. Heated units carry a premium of 5 to 17 percent at every size above 5×5, and 8 of the 31 rate-publishing facilities are discounting. Four census rows were removed: three Outaouais facilities filed under the Quebec City suburb of L’Ange-Gardien, and a warehouse-racking designer.
• September 12, 2026: Kelowna and Quebec City added, completing the 14-metro series. Both are first reads rather than market rates: Kelowna (22 facilities) has 3 publishing a price, and Quebec City (85 facilities) has 4 — 5 percent of the market, now the thinnest sample surveyed. Quebec City is also the most fragmented market in the series: 62 of its 85 facilities are independents and no operator holds more than 5 sites.
• September 12, 2026: Halifax and Saskatoon added. Halifax (37 facilities) is led by a regional operator rather than a national one: Metro Self Storage runs 8 sites, and the city’s climate premium is a steady 9 to 22 percent at every size. Saskatoon (57 facilities) is the thinnest read so far — only 9 facilities have a rate at a standard size, and 18 have no website at all — so its medians describe the operator-run part of the market while the independents are still being surveyed.
• September 12, 2026: Winnipeg added. Access Storage runs 14 of the market’s 69 facilities — one in five, level with Sentinel’s share of Edmonton as the most concentrated single-operator holding surveyed so far — and Winnipeg’s drive-up 10×10 median of $288 sits 48 percent above the national median. Three census rows turned out to be one building listed under two brands — former Sentinel and Apple Self Storage sites now trading as Access — and were merged.
• September 12, 2026: Ottawa and Montreal added. Ottawa (78 facilities) is a two-operator market at the top: Access Storage runs 13 sites and Ottawa-based Dymon 12, and 15 of its 16 rate-publishing facilities are discounting. Montreal (213 facilities) prices its climate-controlled 10×10 at $249, 13 percent above the national median, with Depotium (23 sites) and Montreal Mini-Storage (20) the largest operators. Montreal is also the thinnest early read so far: 42 of its 213 facilities publish a rate, and most independents are still to be surveyed.
• September 12, 2026: Edmonton and Vancouver added. Every one of Edmonton’s 29 rate-publishing facilities is running a promotion — the heaviest discounting yet — and Sentinel alone operates 19 of its 95 facilities. Vancouver prices 44 to 90 percent above the national median at every well-sampled size, with Surrey and White Rock roughly 25 percent below the City of Vancouver on a 10×10. Both are early reads: most of their independents are still to be surveyed.
• September 12, 2026: Toronto and Calgary added. Toronto (356 facilities) is the most institutionally held market surveyed so far — national platforms own 209 facilities, 59 percent of the stock — and its drive-up 10×10 median of $236 runs 21 percent above the national median. Calgary (101 facilities) is the most promotional: 32 of its 39 rate-publishing facilities are discounting. Both markets are still being surveyed, so their coverage will rise over the coming weeks.
• September 12, 2026: Regina added — 27 facilities, 11 publishing a rate, 8 at a standard size. A drive-up market: unheated 10×10 space runs $160, some 18 percent below the national median, and 10×15 and 10×20 run 29 to 30 percent below it, while scarce heated space carries a premium of up to ninety percent over drive-up. No multi-site regional operator is present at all, and 6 of the 8 rate-publishing facilities are discounting at a median 50 percent off — the heaviest promotional activity seen so far.
• September 12, 2026: Two Vancouver Island metros surveyed census-wide. Victoria (36 facilities, 18 publishing per-size rates) and Nanaimo (31 facilities, 12 publishing). The gap between them is the story: Victoria’s climate-controlled 10×10 median of $349 runs 59 percent above Nanaimo’s $220, and 110 km separates the two markets. Victoria is also far more institutionally held (10 of 36 facilities versus 3 of 31) and far more promotional (8 of 18 rate-publishing facilities discounting, against 3 of 12). Nanaimo, by contrast, prices within a few percent of the national median at almost every size.

Methodology

JBW Commercial surveys published online rates at every facility in each metro recorded in its Canadian facility census, de-duplicated and verified. Facilities are re-surveyed on a rolling rotation, and a facility’s last known rate is carried forward between readings so that changes reflect pricing decisions, not sample changes. Rates are the advertised monthly street rate for a unit of the stated size and type, excluding move-in specials, insurance, and administration fees. Where an operator lists several tiers of the same footprint, the median tier is recorded. Weekly and four-weekly prices are converted to a true monthly figure. Sold-out units are excluded. Each median counts facilities, not listings, and figures drawn from fewer than three facilities are withheld from this table and greyed on the metro pages. Rate transparency varies sharply by market — the share of facilities publishing a price is Calgary 77 percent; Toronto 75 percent so far; Victoria 74 percent; Halifax 73 percent so far; Vancouver 68 percent; Nanaimo 67 percent; Kelowna 67 percent; Edmonton 63 percent so far; Winnipeg 56 percent so far; Saskatoon 52 percent so far; Quebec City 51 percent; Ottawa 51 percent so far; Regina 50 percent; Montreal 48 percent so far — so each metro page reports its own coverage in full rather than presenting medians as if they covered the whole market.

Figures are approximate, drawn from publicly posted rates, and subject to revision. E.&O.E.