Ontario’s new release maps 40,844 Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) orders from January to May 2026 across 485 neighbourhoods. Toronto and the GTA lead in raw numbers, but unpaid rent cases show up in communities all over the province. Together, the orders disclose $204.2 million owing.

Watch my quick video breakdown from Instagram.

‍When the Government of Ontario released its 2026 court orders, the first thing everyone asked me was the same question. “Where are all these cases coming from?”

Such a great question.

So, naturally I had to ask my team for help. They blew me away by mapping every single one. 

That’s right, we mapped all 40,844 orders and sorted the data into 485 neighbourhoods by postal code. 

OK overachievers!

Today, I’m going to be walking you through where Ontario’s rental disputes actually happen. Spoiler: it’s definitely not just downtown Toronto.

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‍What are these orders, real quickly?

The Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) is the Ontario tribunal (psst, it’s slightly different than a court!) that settles disputes between landlords and tenants under the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). An order is the board’s written decision. 

In this release, about half the orders are L1 applications, which means it was for unpaid rent. Surprise…or not…

The rest included evictions for other causes (L2), broken settlement agreements (L4), and cases which tenants brought about repairs and rights. 

If you would like to do a deep dive on the money side, read our analysis on how much unpaid rent is in Ontario. 

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‍The top 10 postal codes for LTB orders

The places with the most orders from January to May 2026 are…

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A few things jump out to me when I first read it.

• Big numbers gather where big rental buildings may be.
• A high count (or deep red colour) doesn’t exactly mean it’s a “bad” neighbourhood. It often just means lots of renters live there.

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‍Is this just a Toronto problem?

No. Toronto leads in the highest case numbers because Toronto has the most renters - naturally that would make sense because it’s the most populated and dense neighbourhood in Ontario. 

However, when we measure unpaid-rent orders per 1,000 renter households, other cities and towns light up in colours too.

That per-renter view shows where a renter household is most likely to end up in an order.

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Want your area? Search your postal code on the release page. It takes ten seconds.

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‍Why location matters for landlords and renters

For landlords: knowing your area’s numbers helps you plan and predict what may happen in the future. 

If you own a rental in a high-activity area, screening and paperwork matter even more so don’t be cheap on this. 

If f managing the property yourself is getting heavy, a good property manager can carry a lot of that. 

Two firms we support: CMG Toronto for the GTA and Rent Panda for landlords across Ontario. Both handle tenant placement and day-to-day management so small landlords don’t lose thousands in rent dollars. It can happen because it happened to me as a small single unit rental owner.

For renters: this is a gentle reminder that LTB orders are eventually all going to be public. Know that before you sign a lease, you can look up a landlord’s history the same way landlords look up tenants.

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‍What about the rest of the report?

The location data is just one piece of the data that we looked at. 

The same data we analyzed through showed us that there was $204.2 million in disclosed amounts owing, mostly unpaid rent. 

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It also names the 285 adjudicators who decided these cases and the 500 legal representatives who appeared in them. The busiest adjudicator issued 1,155 orders in five months - that’s like 11 orders a day that they were pumping out!!!

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‍Questions people usually ask us

Which city has the most LTB orders in Ontario?

Downtown Toronto has the highest raw count, which makes sense since it has the most renter households. The 2026 release maps orders across 485 neighbourhoods province-wide.

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Can I see LTB orders in my postal code?

Yes. Openroom’s 2026 data page lets you search any Ontario postal code for free and see the orders near you.

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Are LTB orders public records?

Yes. The Ministiry of the Attorney General just published this list of 40,844 orders. More are expected to come out each month but perhaps a 2-3 month delay. My team at Openroom organizes it with orders going back to 2002, plus we have the latest ones that no one else has. That way, you can search everything in one place. 

Yup, you can conduct a search the individual court orders anytime.

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What to do next

Two things. First, search the individual court orders behind these maps. A free account lets you look up any name, address, or file number. Second, if a tenant owes you money from one of these orders, file it through the Openroom Rental Debt Ledger to land it on someone’s Equifax credit history and incentivize them to make a payment on their debt. It records the debt, and it also records when it gets paid.