An apartment town: 42% of Alpine’s homes, against 13% across Ontario’s towns
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $552,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $517,836. What homes sold for in Alpine isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Ontario. Assessors valued the median residential property at $309,000 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. Alpine doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Kitchener.
Alpine’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. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $518K
- Owners
- 730
- 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).
A detached house in Kitchener is assessed 37% higher than across Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 81,065 residential properties in Kitchener for 2024, 60% of them detached houses and 13% 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.
Alpine’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, Alpine had 1,395 homes with someone living in them. Half or more were standing by 1980. 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
| Alpine | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 18% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 11% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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 Kitchener ran at 32.5 homes a year per 1,000, where Ontario’s towns ran at 15
Building permits added 17,524 homes in Kitchener between 2018 and 2023: some 2,921 a year. Very few were houses: 13% in single-unit buildings (Ontario’s towns: 66%).
A peak in 2023: 4,095 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
4,795 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10% 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. · Monthly permits: one figure for all of the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro area
Alpine is cheaper than most of Ontario’s towns: 21% 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 Alpine: Southdale
Next to Alpine: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | $552K | $518K | 53% | |
| Country Hills | $695K | $624K | 50% | 1.1 |
| Country Hills West | $650K | $635K | 80% | 1.5 |
| Southdale | $500K | $519K | 36% | 1.6 |
| Laurentian Hills | $600K | $572K | 56% | 1.6 |
| Trillium Industrial Park | $675K | $1.06M | 37% | 1.8 |
| Vanier | $572K | $547K | 34% | 2.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Alpine
Is Alpine expensive for Ontario?
Cheaper than the middle: Ontario’s towns come to $695,000, Alpine to less.
How many households in Alpine are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 10% of households in Alpine, where Ontario’s towns sit at 9%.
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).