The middle home in Butler is valued at $700,000
Some 705 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. No open sale prices are published in Ontario, so for Butler the census value is the measure.
Butler’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’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $703K
- Owners
- 705
- 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). · Source area for assessed values, values by property type and building permits: the city of Hamilton
A detached house in Hamilton is assessed 52% higher than across Ontario’s towns
In 2024, Hamilton had 178,695 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 71% of them and condos 6%.
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.
How Butler’s homes break down, by age and kind
970 occupied homes stood in Butler in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 54% of them. Half went up before 2001. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Butler | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 8% | 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.
16 new homes a year per 1,000 in Hamilton: in step with Ontario’s towns (15)
Some 3,396 homes a year: 20,374 in all were permitted in Hamilton from 2018 to 2023. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 15%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%. Butler doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Hamilton metro area.
The busiest year: 2023, with 5,130 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 8%: 3,048 new homes in the year to August 2026
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.
Butler sits close to 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.
Butler’s neighbours by home value
Next to Butler: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Butler
How many households in Butler are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Butler’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
Is Butler expensive for Ontario?
Neither more nor less: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Butler is near it.
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).