Photo: Drozwik Drones · CC BY 3.0Half the owned homes in Bowmanville are valued above $750,000
It is the middle of what 30,610 owner households told the 2021 census. Sale prices aren’t published in Ontario: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Bowmanville. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $367,000. 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.
Two ways to price a home in Bowmanville
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $772K
- Owners
- 30,610
- 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).
Bowmanville’s detached houses are assessed 56% above the median of Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 34,710 residential properties in Bowmanville for 2024, 80% of them detached houses and 5% condos.
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.
A younger stock than most: 37% of Bowmanville’s homes went up after 2000 (Ontario’s towns: 17%)
The 2021 census counted 35,950 occupied homes in Bowmanville; 78% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bowmanville | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Bowmanville permitted 18.1 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Some 679 homes a year: 4,071 in all were permitted in Bowmanville from 2018 to 2023. The mix: 33% in single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
Most in 2020: 995 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 47%: 2,751 new homes in the year to August 2026
Measured across the Oshawa metro area: monthly permits
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.
Bowmanville sits close to 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 Bowmanville: Oshawa
The places around Bowmanville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 13–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Bowmanville.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowmanville | $750K | $772K | 86% | |
| Oshawa | $695K | $705K | 64% | 12.7 |
| Whitby | $850K | $894K | 82% | 19.8 |
| Ajax | $850K | $874K | 84% | 27.3 |
| Port Perry | $800K | $848K | 87% | 28.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Bowmanville
How many households in Bowmanville are in core housing need?
In line with Ontario’s towns (9%): 8% in Bowmanville, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Bowmanville expensive for Ontario?
Bowmanville is close to the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000.
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).