Photo: Boxcarphilly · CC BY 3.0Homes in Grey Highlands are worth a median $600,000
3,190 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Ontario, so nothing here says what Grey Highlands’s homes actually sold for.
Two ways to price a home in Grey Highlands
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. 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
- $704K
- Owners
- 3,190
- 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).
Grey Highlands’s homes by type: detached houses lead, at 93%
Of Grey Highlands’s 5,485 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 93% are 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.
93% of Grey Highlands’s homes are detached houses, where Ontario’s towns have 60%
People lived in 4,090 homes in Grey Highlands at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Grey Highlands | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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.
Grey Highlands permitted 18.2 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Building permits added 417 homes in Grey Highlands between 2018 and 2023: some 70 a year. Single-unit buildings took 69% of them, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.
A peak in 2022: 120 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Grey Highlands is cheaper than most of Ontario’s towns: 14% under their $695,000 median
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 Grey Highlands: Chatsworth
The places around Grey Highlands at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 18–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Grey Highlands.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Highlands | $600K | $704K | 87% | |
| Dundalk | $600K | $637K | 84% | 17.5 |
| Melancthon | $800K | $842K | 85% | 24.8 |
| Thornbury | $950K | $1.2M | 87% | 27.4 |
| Chatsworth | $500K | $635K | 91% | 28.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Grey Highlands
How many households in Grey Highlands are in core housing need?
Fewer than most: 6% of households in Grey Highlands, where Ontario’s towns sit at 9%.
Is Grey Highlands expensive for Ontario?
No: Grey Highlands’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 · 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).