Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0A few dear homes lift Frontenac Islands’s average value 35% above its median
By the 2021 census, half of owned homes were worth more than $500,000; the average was $676,000. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No open sale prices are published in Ontario, so for Frontenac Islands the census value is the measure.
Frontenac Islands’s homes, by two sources
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $676K
- Owners
- 815
- 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).
On the assessment roll, Frontenac Islands’s houses sit 12% above Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 1,360 homes in Frontenac Islands, detached houses 91% 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.
Single-detached houses are 98% of Frontenac Islands’s homes, against 60% for Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census counted 900 occupied homes in Frontenac Islands. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Frontenac Islands | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 13% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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.
Building at the pace of Ontario’s towns: 14.2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Frontenac Islands, against 15
Building permits added 74 homes in Frontenac Islands between 2018 and 2023: some 12 a year. Most were houses: 95% went into single-unit buildings, against 66% for Ontario’s towns. Frontenac Islands doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Kingston metro area.
Most in 2022: 23 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 1,945 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 46% more
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.
Frontenac Islands 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 Frontenac Islands: Gananoque and Loyalist
The places around Frontenac Islands at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 15–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Frontenac Islands.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac Islands | $500K | $676K | 93% | |
| Kingston | $500K | $534K | 56% | 15 |
| Gananoque | $360K | $398K | 64% | 20.3 |
| Loyalist | $448K | $479K | 83% | 26.9 |
| South Frontenac | $500K | $559K | 93% | 29.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Frontenac Islands
Is Frontenac Islands expensive for Ontario?
No: Frontenac Islands’s census median is below the $695,000 of Ontario’s towns.
How many households in Frontenac Islands are in core housing need?
In line with Ontario’s towns (9%): 9% in Frontenac Islands, 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).