Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Half the owned homes in Forest Heights are valued above $700,000
The census of 2021 asked 4,320 owner households what their home was worth. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. No open sale prices are published in Ontario, so for Forest Heights the census value is the measure.
What Forest Heights’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. 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. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Kitchener, with Forest Heights one part of it.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $689K
- Owners
- 4,320
- 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).
Kitchener’s detached houses are assessed 37% above the median of 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.
The homes of Forest Heights, by period and type
The 2021 census counted 4,980 occupied homes in Forest Heights; 80% of them are single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 1981. 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
| Forest Heights | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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
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%. Forest Heights shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro area.
Most 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.
Forest Heights against Ontario’s towns: about level with the $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.
Cheaper next to Forest Heights: Victoria Hills, Meinzinger Park-Lakeside and Laurentian Hills
Next to Forest Heights: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Heights | $700K | $689K | 87% | |
| Highland West | $695K | $711K | 75% | 1.8 |
| Forest Hill | $695K | $673K | 61% | 1.9 |
| Victoria Hills | $500K | $506K | 39% | 2.5 |
| Laurentian West | $700K | $693K | 77% | 2.5 |
| Meinzinger Park-Lakeside | $600K | $616K | 60% | 2.8 |
| Laurentian Hills | $600K | $572K | 56% | 3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Forest Heights
How many households in Forest Heights are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 3% of Forest Heights’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
Is Forest Heights expensive for Ontario?
Neither more nor less: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Forest Heights is near it.
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).