Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0Home values in Colborne run 28% lower than the median of Ontario’s towns
Owners put the median home at $500,000 at the 2021 census; for Ontario’s towns the median is $695,000. For Colborne there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $215,000. 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.
Two ways to price a home in Colborne
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $588K
- Owners
- 2,180
- 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).
Colborne’s homes by type: detached houses lead, at 94%
Assessors listed 2,815 residential properties in Colborne for 2024, 94% of them detached houses.
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 town of houses: 91% of the homes in Colborne stand alone (Ontario’s towns: 60%)
Colborne had 2,600 occupied homes at the 2021 census. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Colborne | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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.
Colborne 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.
Colborne’s neighbours by home value
Next to Colborne: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colborne | $500K | $588K | 85% | |
| Brighton | $500K | $559K | 86% | 11.6 |
| Alnwick/Haldimand | $700K | $740K | 92% | 15.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Colborne
How many households in Colborne are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Colborne’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
Is Colborne expensive for Ontario?
No: Colborne’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. 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).