Homes in Rushdale are worth a median $750,000
That figure comes from 1,350 owner households at the 2021 census. What homes sold for in Rushdale isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Ontario. 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. Rushdale shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Hamilton.
What Rushdale’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $731K
- Owners
- 1,350
- 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
The 2024 assessment roll counts 178,695 homes in Hamilton: detached houses make 71% of them, 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.
Rushdale’s homes: when they went up and what they are
1,615 occupied homes stood in Rushdale in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 76% 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
| Rushdale | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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%.
A peak in 2023: 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. · Monthly permits: the Hamilton metro area
Rushdale 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.
Lower values near Rushdale: Lawfield, Butler and Quinndale
Next to Rushdale: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Rushdale
How many households in Rushdale are in core housing need?
5% of Rushdale’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 Rushdale expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Rushdale sits mid-table among Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
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).