Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Box Grove are worth 73% more than the median of Ontario’s towns
At the 2021 census the median home was worth $1,200,000, where Ontario’s towns sit at $695,000. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since. For Box Grove there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario.
What Box Grove’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
- $1.22M
- Owners
- 5,810
- 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). · The assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers here cover the city of Markham
A detached house in Markham is assessed at 3.7 times the middle of Ontario’s towns
Detached houses account for 61% of the 108,480 properties on Markham’s 2024 roll; condos for 16%.
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 younger stock than most: 73% of Box Grove’s homes went up after 2000 (Ontario’s towns: 17%)
At the 2021 census, 73% of Box Grove’s 6,770 occupied homes were single-detached houses. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Box Grove | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 10% | 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.
Markham permitted 12.4 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Some 1,551 homes a year: 9,308 in all were permitted in Markham from 2018 to 2023. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 16%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%. Nobody publishes monthly permits for Box Grove alone, so this card uses the figure for the Toronto metro area.
The busiest year: 2021, with 2,900 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
35,927 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 13% 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.
Box Grove is dearer than most of Ontario’s towns: 73% above their $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 Box Grove: Vinegar Hill, Cornell and Hagerman's Corners
The places around Box Grove at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box Grove | $1.2M | $1.22M | 86% | |
| Vinegar Hill | $1M | $1.13M | 83% | 1.8 |
| Markham Village | $1.2M | $1.21M | 75% | 3.2 |
| Cornell | $950K | $1.03M | 82% | 4 |
| Mount Joy | $1.2M | $1.21M | 91% | 4.1 |
| Hagerman's Corners | $1M | $1.08M | 74% | 4.3 |
| Morningside Heights | $900K | $929K | 84% | 4.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Box Grove
Is Box Grove expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Box Grove’s is worth more.
How many households in Box Grove are in core housing need?
10% of Box Grove’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).