Half the owned homes in Laurentian Hills are valued above $600,000
2,115 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since. For Laurentian Hills there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario.
What Laurentian Hills’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 still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $572K
- Owners
- 2,115
- 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). · Data for assessed values, values by property type and building permits covers the city of Kitchener
On the assessment roll, Kitchener’s houses sit 37% above Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 81,065 homes in Kitchener: detached houses make 60% of them, condos 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.
How Laurentian Hills’s homes break down, by age and kind
3,780 occupied homes stood in Laurentian Hills in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 36% of them. 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
| Laurentian Hills | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 19% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 9% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 11% | 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
Some 2,921 homes a year: 17,524 in all were permitted in Kitchener from 2018 to 2023. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 13%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%. Figures for monthly permits are published for the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo metro area as a whole, not for Laurentian Hills alone.
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.
Laurentian Hills is 14% below 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 Laurentian Hills: Alpine and Southdale
The places around Laurentian Hills at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurentian Hills | $600K | $572K | 56% | |
| Meinzinger Park-Lakeside | $600K | $616K | 60% | 1.5 |
| Forest Hill | $695K | $673K | 61% | 1.5 |
| Country Hills West | $650K | $635K | 80% | 1.6 |
| Alpine | $552K | $518K | 53% | 1.6 |
| Southdale | $500K | $519K | 36% | 1.8 |
| Laurentian West | $700K | $693K | 77% | 2.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Laurentian Hills
Is Laurentian Hills expensive for Ontario?
Below the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Laurentian Hills’s is worth less.
How many households in Laurentian Hills are in core housing need?
11% of Laurentian Hills’s households, near 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.
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).