Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Half the owned homes in Bridgeport East are valued above $700,000
Some 1,140 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. What homes sold for in Bridgeport East isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Ontario.
Two ways to price a home in Bridgeport East
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Ontario’s assessments are still on MPAC’s values of 1 January 2016, far below today’s prices, so they compare only with other Ontario towns.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $672K
- Owners
- 1,140
- 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). · Assessed values, values by property type and building permits: one figure for all of the city of Kitchener
Houses in Kitchener carry assessments 37% over the middle of Ontario’s towns
Detached houses account for 60% of the 81,065 properties on Kitchener’s 2024 roll; condos for 13%.
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.
An older stock than most: 35% of Bridgeport East’s homes go back before 1961 (Ontario’s towns: 22%)
Bridgeport East had 1,675 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 61% of them single-detached houses. 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
| Bridgeport East | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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 ahead of Ontario’s towns: 32.5 new homes a year per 1,000 in Kitchener, against 15
Kitchener issued permits for 17,524 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 2,921 a year. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 13%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.
The busiest year: 2023, with 4,095 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 4,795 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 10% fewer
Measured across the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 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.
Bridgeport East sits close to the $695,000 median of Ontario’s towns
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.
Cheaper next to Bridgeport East: Fairfield, Mt. Hope Huron Park and Auditorium
Next to Bridgeport East: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgeport East | $700K | $672K | 67% | |
| Fairfield | $600K | $611K | 50% | 1.3 |
| Central Frederick | $695K | $649K | 45% | 1.7 |
| Mt. Hope Huron Park | $600K | $601K | 47% | 1.8 |
| Rosemount | $695K | $686K | 56% | 2.1 |
| Auditorium | $650K | $693K | 60% | 2.4 |
| City Commercial Core | $420K | $440K | 24% | 2.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Bridgeport East
How many households in Bridgeport East are in core housing need?
In Bridgeport East, 4% of households are in core housing need, against 9% for Ontario’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Bridgeport East expensive for Ontario?
In the middle: Ontario’s towns come to $695,000, and so, near enough, does Bridgeport East.
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).