Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Home values in Brantford run 21% lower than the median of Ontario’s towns
Owners put the median home at $552,000 at the 2021 census; for Ontario’s towns the median is $695,000. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. For Brantford there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario.
What Brantford’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. MPAC hasn’t reassessed since its 1 January 2016 values, which is why the figure sits well under the census value; it compares only within Ontario.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $589K
- Owners
- 27,500
- 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 Brantford carry assessments 9% over the middle of Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 34,270 homes in Brantford: detached houses make 76% of them, condos 4%.
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.
An older stock than most: 33% of Brantford’s homes go back before 1961 (Ontario’s towns: 22%)
Of the 41,675 homes people lived in across Brantford at the 2021 census, 61% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Brantford | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 11% | 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.
Brantford permitted 20.7 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Some 794 homes a year: 4,762 in all were permitted in Brantford from 2018 to 2023. The mix: 38% in single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 1,389 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Level with the year before: 1,505 new homes to August 2026
Measured across the Brantford 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.
Brantford is 21% below the $695,000 median of Ontario’s towns
871 of Ontario’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Brantford’s neighbours by home value
Next to Brantford: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brantford | $552K | $589K | 66% | |
| Paris | $700K | $787K | 88% | 9.6 |
| Six Nations (Part) 40 | – | – | – | 15.1 |
| Lynden | $850K | $937K | 92% | 17.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Brantford
Is Brantford expensive for Ontario?
Below the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Brantford’s is worth less.
How many households in Brantford are in core housing need?
In line with Ontario’s towns (9%): 11% in Brantford, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).