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Dilworth Mountain: the hill in the middle of Kelowna
Dilworth Mountain is the low, isolated hill in the geographic centre of Kelowna, with Orchard Park at its foot and downtown, the hospital, UBC Okanagan and the airport all inside a fifteen minute drive. It’s an established neighbourhood, largely built out, and it sells for a premium over the city that has nothing to do with being new. Here’s what the sales record says, and what I’d tell you before you buy or list here.
Dilworth by the numbers
Every figure below is a median of single family detached sales recorded on the Interior REALTORS® MLS®, as of September 2026, covering sales through July. They describe the market, not any one house.
- Median price, 2026 so far
- $1,225,000
- 19 sales, January through July
- 2025 median, full year
- $1,172,500
- 42 sales in the year
- Ten years
- +73%
- 2016 median $709,500
- Against the Central Okanagan
- +29%
- above the regional median of $949,900, 2026 so far
2016 2026 so far
- Dilworth Mountain $1,225,000
- Central Okanagan $949,900
| Year | Dilworth Mountain median | Sales | Central Okanagan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $709,500 | 86 | $553,500 |
| 2017 | $759,000 | 55 | $625,000 |
| 2018 | $760,000 | 37 | $660,000 |
| 2019 | $751,000 | 41 | $650,000 |
| 2020 | $825,638 | 68 | $725,625 |
| 2021 | $1,053,000 | 54 | $890,000 |
| 2022 | $1,207,400 | 44 | $1,030,000 |
| 2023 | $1,175,000 | 40 | $950,000 |
| 2024 | $1,182,500 | 30 | $950,000 |
| 2025 | $1,172,500 | 42 | $960,000 |
| 2026 so far | $1,225,000 | 19 | $949,900 |
Every figure is a median of single family detached sales in Dilworth Mountain recorded on the Interior REALTORS® MLS®, pulled 1 September 2026. The Central Okanagan column is every neighbourhood on the board, so Dilworth Mountain can be read against the wider region. 2026 covers January through July, not a full year. Dilworth Mountain sold 516 detached homes across these ten years, a few dozen a year, so a single year's median moves on a handful of sales and is a range wearing a number, not a verdict.
The pattern here is steadiness. Over ten years Dilworth Mountain gained 73% while the Central Okanagan gained 72%. It tracked the region almost exactly, and it did that while holding a premium over the regional median the whole way, between 14% and 29% depending on the year. That is what a location premium looks like. It doesn’t widen on hype in a boom and it doesn’t collapse in a correction. You are paying for where the hill sits, and that hasn’t changed.
The other thing to notice is the sample. Forty-two detached sales in 2025, nineteen in the first seven months of 2026. A neighbourhood this size can swing its median by a hundred thousand dollars on two estate homes changing hands. Read the year, not the month, and read the trend, not the last number.
Where it is and what it is
Dilworth Mountain rises between the Glenmore valley and Rutland, west of Knox Mountain, with the Kelowna Golf and Country Club at its western foot and Orchard Park Shopping Centre directly south on Harvey Avenue. You reach the top by Summit Drive off Spall Road, or by Dilworth Drive. Kelowna General Hospital is a short drive south. UBC Okanagan is roughly ten minutes north, the airport about fifteen.
The City files it under the Glenmore planning area, but it lives as its own enclave. Dilworth Mountain Park sits on top: about three kilometres of trail, most of it the wide, gravel Dilworth Ridge Trail, with a small playground, benches along the ridge, and a view that takes in downtown, the golf course below and Okanagan Lake. The park is open six in the morning to eleven at night and dogs are welcome on leash on the trails. Selkirk Park, Lillooet Park and the Dilworth soccer park fill in the lower slopes.
Transit is closer than you’d expect for a hill. Route 3, named for the neighbourhood, runs from the Orchard Park Exchange up Dilworth Drive and Summit Drive.
What the homes are like
Dilworth has been a sought-after address since the 1980s, and the housing shows it. The core is larger single-family and estate-style homes on bigger lots, with mature landscaping and the winding driveways a hillside produces. Around that core are semi-detached and townhome stratas such as Denali Ridge, built for the lake and city views, and apartment stratas such as Cascade Falls that brought younger buyers and downsizers onto the hill.
What you won’t find is a pipeline. I couldn’t identify a single large project under construction here, and that’s the point. Supply on Dilworth Mountain is resale supply. When a good lot with a good view comes up, it’s competing with nothing new.
Two consequences follow from the age of the stock. A lot of Dilworth was built inside the years when Poly-B plumbing was standard in this valley, roughly 1978 to 1995, and insurers have started declining or attaching large water-damage deductibles to homes that still have it. I wrote up what that means for a Kelowna buyer. And hillside lots on clay-heavy ground mean retaining walls and drainage that were engineered decades ago. On a hillside a retaining wall is structure, not landscaping, and it gets inspected like structure.
Buying here: what I’d tell you at the table
Buy the lot and the view
The house you can change. The elevation, the orientation and what the windows look at you cannot. Two houses with the same finish on this hill can be a long way apart in value for that reason alone.
Do the Poly-B check first
Ask what the supply lines are made of before you fall in love with the kitchen. If it's Poly-B, get a replacement quote and a word from your insurer before subject removal, and negotiate on the number.
Walk the walls
Retaining walls, drainage and driveway grades are the hillside's structural questions. I look at them on every showing here because I've seen what a failed wall costs.
Price the renovation before the offer
You are paying a premium for location, so a dated 1990s interior at a premium price is normal here. Know what bringing it up costs before the price feels reasonable.
Fire is on the map
The City has been thinning fuel on the park's north slopes through 2025 and 2026 under its FireSmart program. Ask what has been done on the property itself, and price insurance before you commit.
Check the catchment by address
Dilworth addresses are reported to feed North Glenmore Elementary, then Dr. Knox Middle and Kelowna Secondary, with French immersion starting at École Glenmore. The school district's map settles it street by street.
Selling here: what actually works
Sell the location and the lot, and let the data prove the premium. The Dilworth buyer is usually moving up inside Kelowna. They know the streets, they know what the hill costs, and they are comparing you to the two or three other homes for sale here this season, not to the city median.
Get ahead of the mechanical. An older home at a premium price gets inspected hard. Six years as a journeyman HVAC technician means I read the furnace room, the plumbing and the panel before the photographer arrives, and we fix or disclose before a buyer’s inspector finds it. A surprise on the report is where deals on this hill come apart.
Shoot the view at the right hour and the yard in the right season. Mature landscaping is a real part of what a Dilworth buyer is paying for. A February listing photo of a dormant garden gives that away for nothing.
Price against what’s listed now. In a market of a few dozen sales a year, the last comparable might be six months old and from a different market. How I price and market a listing is the same here as anywhere; the thin sample just makes the judgement matter more.
Questions people ask about Dilworth Mountain
Where is Dilworth Mountain in Kelowna?
In the middle. It is the hill between the Glenmore valley and Rutland, directly north of Orchard Park Shopping Centre, reached by Summit Drive or Dilworth Drive. Downtown, the hospital, UBC Okanagan and the airport are all within about fifteen minutes.
Is Dilworth Mountain a good place to live?
If you want to be central and above it all at the same time, few places in Kelowna do both. Quiet established streets, a park with a ridge trail on top, and a shopping centre at the bottom of the hill. The trade is that you buy an established home and maintain it, because almost nothing new is being built.
What are the homes on Dilworth Mountain like?
Mostly larger single-family homes from the 1980s onward on bigger, landscaped lots, with a smaller stock of view townhomes and apartment stratas. Many were built in the Poly-B plumbing years, so ask.
What schools serve Dilworth Mountain?
Dilworth addresses are reported to fall in the North Glenmore Elementary catchment, feeding Dr. Knox Middle and Kelowna Secondary, with French immersion available from École Glenmore. Catchments are drawn by street, so confirm the exact address on the school district’s map.
What is my Dilworth Mountain home worth?
Not the median. On a hill that sells a few dozen homes a year, the median is a rough centre and your view, your lot and the state of your mechanical systems move you a long way either side of it. Send me the address and I’ll tell you what I’d list it at, and why.
Which REALTOR® should I call about Dilworth Mountain?
I’m Braden Koop, a REALTOR® with RE/MAX Kelowna (licence 191956). Dilworth Mountain is one of the thirteen areas I track every month, and what I bring to a hill that sells a few dozen homes a year is the data to price against the right comparables and six years in the trades to read the house itself. Call or text 250-801-8725, or send the address through the contact page.
Go deeper
Every area I work is on the neighbourhoods map, with these figures side by side.
The Kelowna market report
Ten years across eleven neighbourhoods, months of inventory and days to sell, refreshed monthly. Dilworth is one row in a bigger picture.
Read more →Poly-B plumbing in Kelowna
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Read more →Market figures on this page are medians of single family detached sales recorded on the Interior REALTORS® MLS® for the Dilworth Mountain sub-area and the Central Okanagan, pulled September 2026 and covering January through July 2026 for the current year. They describe the market, not any one home. Neighbourhood facts were current as of September 2026. Braden Koop Personal Real Estate Corporation operates under RE/MAX Kelowna. Each RE/MAX office is independently owned and operated.
