A newly built town: 93% of the homes in Marritt date from 2001 or later (Ontario’s towns: 17%)
The middle home was worth $900,000 at the 2021 census, the average $944,877. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Marritt. Assessors valued the median residential property at $353,000 for 2024. 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, Marritt included.
Two ways to price a home in Marritt
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $945K
- Owners
- 775
- 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.
The homes of Marritt, by period and type
865 occupied homes stood in Marritt in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 73% of them. 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
| Marritt | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 19% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | under 1% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 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
Building permits added 20,374 homes in Hamilton between 2018 and 2023: some 3,396 a year. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 15%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%. Marritt 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
3,048 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8% on the year before
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.
Marritt is dearer than most of Ontario’s towns: 29% above 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.
Marritt’s neighbours by home value
The places around Marritt at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Marritt
How many households in Marritt are in core housing need?
under 1% of Marritt’s households, under the 9% of Ontario’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Marritt expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Marritt’s is worth more.
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).