Photo: Tabercil · CC BY 3.0Durham sits 28% below Ontario’s towns on home values
The 2021 census gives $500,000 as the median value; Ontario’s towns come to $695,000. For Durham there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $202,000. 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.
Durham’s homes, by two sources
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $606K
- Owners
- 4,170
- 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).
Durham’s detached houses are assessed 10% below the median of Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 5,545 residential properties in Durham for 2024, 92% 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.
88% of Durham’s homes are detached houses, where Ontario’s towns have 60%
At the 2021 census, Durham had 5,285 homes with someone living in them. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Durham | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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.
Durham 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 Durham: Hanover, Walkerton and Mildmay
Next to Durham: 2021 census values and the share of owners. No closer places have figures: these lie 15–29 km from Durham.
Questions about property prices in Durham
How many households in Durham are in core housing need?
3% of Durham’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 Durham expensive for Ontario?
Less than most: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Durham sits below it.
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).