Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners put the median home in Albion at $800,000
It is the middle of what 1,210 owner households told the 2021 census. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Albion. Assessors valued the median residential property at $353,000 for 2024. 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. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Hamilton, with Albion one part of it.
What Albion’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. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $776K
- Owners
- 1,210
- 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).
Hamilton’s detached houses are assessed 52% above the median of Ontario’s towns
Of Hamilton’s 178,695 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 71% are detached houses and 6% are condos.
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.
Albion’s homes: when they went up and what they are
1,620 occupied homes stood in Albion in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 55% of them. The older half dates from before 2001. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Albion | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 14% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Hamilton permitted 16 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Hamilton created 20,374 homes, about 3,396 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 15% were single-unit, against 66% for Ontario’s towns. Albion shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Hamilton metro area.
The busiest year: 2023, with 5,130 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 3,048 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 8% 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.
Albion is 15% above 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.
Lower values near Albion: Valley Park, Vincent and Red Hill
The places around Albion at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Albion
Is Albion expensive for Ontario?
More than most: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Albion sits above it.
How many households in Albion are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 8% of Albion’s households in core housing need, much as for Ontario’s towns (9%).
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).