Photo: P199 · Public domainLanark Highlands sits 44% below Ontario’s towns on home values
Owners valued the median home at $388,000 in 2021, where the median of Ontario’s towns was $695,000. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices. For Lanark Highlands there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario.
What Lanark Highlands’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. 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
- $427K
- Owners
- 2,145
- 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).
Lanark Highlands’s detached houses are assessed 20% below the median of Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 3,515 residential properties in Lanark Highlands for 2024, 92% of them detached houses.
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.
A town of houses: 94% of the homes in Lanark Highlands stand alone (Ontario’s towns: 60%)
At the 2021 census, Lanark Highlands had 2,490 homes with someone living in them. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lanark Highlands | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Lanark Highlands permitted 11.6 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Lanark Highlands issued permits for 168 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 28 a year. 96% were single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
Most in 2022: 46 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Lanark Highlands is 44% below 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.
Lanark Highlands’s neighbours by home value
Next to Lanark Highlands: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Lanark Highlands has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 22–29 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanark Highlands | $388K | $427K | 89% | |
| Tay Valley | $448K | $496K | 93% | 22.1 |
| Perth | $400K | $433K | 56% | 23.5 |
| Drummond/North Elmsley | $460K | $531K | 93% | 23.8 |
| Carleton Place | $472K | $500K | 70% | 28.5 |
| Beckwith | $600K | $641K | 96% | 29.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lanark Highlands
Is Lanark Highlands expensive for Ontario?
Less than most: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Lanark Highlands sits below it.
How many households in Lanark Highlands are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Lanark Highlands’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
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).