Photo: This image is Image Number 569299 at Mushroom Observer , a source for mycological images. · CC BY-SA 3.0Hill Park’s housing is older than most: 61% dates from before 1961 (Ontario’s towns: 22%)
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $600,000; averaged, their homes came to $589,404. For Hill Park there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $353,000. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices. For assessed values, values by property type and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Hamilton, Hill Park included.
Hill Park’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $589K
- Owners
- 855
- 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).
Houses in Hamilton carry assessments 52% over the middle of Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 178,695 residential properties in Hamilton for 2024, 71% of them detached houses and 6% 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.
14% of Hill Park’s households are in core housing need, against 9% for Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census counted 1,360 occupied homes in Hill Park; 70% of them are single-detached houses. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Hill Park | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 14% | 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.
Permits in Hamilton ran at 16 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Hamilton issued permits for 20,374 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 3,396 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 15% were single-unit, against 66% for Ontario’s towns.
Most in 2023: 5,130 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 8%: 3,048 new homes in the year to August 2026
Measured across the Hamilton metro area: monthly permits
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.
Hill Park is cheaper than most of Ontario’s towns: 14% under their $695,000 median
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 Hill Park: Inch Park
The places around Hill Park at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Park | $600K | $589K | 62% | |
| Balfour | $645K | $604K | 62% | 0.8 |
| Greeningdon | $600K | $608K | 55% | 0.9 |
| Bruleville | $600K | $614K | 54% | 1.1 |
| Burkholme | $600K | $593K | 57% | 1.2 |
| Inch Park | $552K | $587K | 81% | 1.3 |
| Centremount | $700K | $658K | 63% | 1.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Hill Park
Is Hill Park expensive for Ontario?
Below the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Hill Park’s is worth less.
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).