Half the owned homes in Poplar Park are valued above $800,000
It is the middle of what 980 owner households told the 2021 census. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Poplar Park. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $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. Poplar Park shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Hamilton.
Two ways to price a home in Poplar Park
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $752K
- Owners
- 980
- 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).
On the assessment roll, Hamilton’s houses sit 52% above 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.
How Poplar Park’s homes break down, by age and kind
The 2021 census counted 1,070 occupied homes in Poplar Park; 80% of them are single-detached houses. At least half predate 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
| Poplar Park | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 17% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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.
Building at the pace of Ontario’s towns: 16 new homes a year per 1,000 in Hamilton, against 15
Some 3,396 homes a year: 20,374 in all were permitted in Hamilton from 2018 to 2023. Very few were houses: 15% in single-unit buildings (Ontario’s towns: 66%).
A peak in 2023: 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
Source area for monthly permits: the Hamilton metro area
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.
Poplar Park 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 Poplar Park: Eastdale, Guernsey and Riverdale East
The places around Poplar Park at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar Park | $800K | $752K | 93% | |
| Eastdale | $650K | $701K | 92% | 0.7 |
| Guernsey | $695K | $681K | 94% | 1.2 |
| Highway Valley | $800K | $823K | 93% | 1.4 |
| Riverdale East | $745K | $660K | 73% | 1.4 |
| Lakeshore | $452K | $580K | 72% | 1.7 |
| Westmeria | $600K | $720K | 93% | 1.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Poplar Park
How many households in Poplar Park are in core housing need?
Fewer than most: 4% of households in Poplar Park, where Ontario’s towns sit at 9%.
Is Poplar Park expensive for Ontario?
Dearer than the middle: Ontario’s towns come to $695,000, Poplar Park to 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).