Photo: cate cuerden from Stratford, Canada · CC BY 2.0Home values in Bayfield run 28% lower than the median of Ontario’s towns
That is a median of $500,000 at the 2021 census, set beside $695,000 for Ontario’s towns. No sales are published for towns in Ontario, Bayfield included, so owners’ values are the measure. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $262,000. Ontario’s assessments are still on MPAC’s values of 1 January 2016, far below today’s prices, so they compare only with other Ontario towns.
What Bayfield’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $608K
- Owners
- 2,575
- Ontario’s towns
- $695K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential, MPAC 2016 base
- Ontario’s towns
- $232K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Houses in Bayfield carry assessments 12% over the middle of Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 4,305 homes in Bayfield, detached houses 93% of them.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Canadian Housing Statistics Program, table 46-10-0093 (2024): residential properties on the assessment roll, vacant land left out. The ticks are the median of Ontario’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
Before 1961: 38% of the homes in Bayfield, where Ontario’s towns have 22%
Bayfield had 3,300 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 83% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bayfield | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 9% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
Permits in Bayfield ran at 16.2 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Bayfield issued permits for 312 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 52 a year. Single-unit buildings took 89% of them, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.
The busiest year: 2019, with 64 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Bayfield is 28% below the $695,000 median of Ontario’s towns
The census values of Ontario’s towns, 871 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Bayfield: Exeter, Clinton and Seaforth
The places around Bayfield at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 16–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Bayfield.
Questions about property prices in Bayfield
How many households in Bayfield are in core housing need?
4% of Bayfield’s households, under the 9% of Ontario’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Bayfield expensive for Ontario?
No: Bayfield’s census median is below the $695,000 of Ontario’s towns.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).