Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.078% of Brown's Corners’s homes have been built since 2001, against 17% for Ontario’s towns
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $700,000; averaged, their homes came to $769,402. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. Sale prices aren’t published in Ontario: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Brown's Corners.
Two ways to price a home in Brown's Corners
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. MPAC hasn’t reassessed since its 1 January 2016 values, which is why the figure sits well under the census value; it compares only within Ontario.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $769K
- Owners
- 2,225
- 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). · Area-wide: assessed values, values by property type and building permits, counted over the city of Markham
A detached house in Markham is assessed at 3.7 times the middle of Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 108,480 homes in Markham: detached houses make 61% of them, condos 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.
74% of Brown's Corners lives in apartments, where Ontario’s towns have 13%
At the 2021 census, Brown's Corners had 3,300 homes with someone living in them. 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
| Brown's Corners | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 85% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 13% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 27% | 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.
12.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Markham: in step with Ontario’s towns (15)
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Markham created 9,308 homes, about 1,551 a year. Only 16% went into single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 2,900 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Down 13%: 35,927 new homes in the year to August 2026
Measured across the Toronto 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.
Brown's Corners sits near the middle of Ontario’s towns ($695,000)
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.
Home values around Brown's Corners
The places around Brown's Corners at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown's Corners | $700K | $769K | 67% | |
| Buttonville | $1.5M | $1.54M | 89% | 1.8 |
| Unionville | $1.51M | $1.5M | 84% | 2.4 |
| Cachet | $2M | $2.27M | 91% | 3.4 |
| Underwood | $1M | $1M | 87% | 3.9 |
| Hagerman's Corners | $1M | $1.08M | 74% | 4.2 |
| Milliken | $950K | $919K | 84% | 4.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Brown's Corners
How many households in Brown's Corners are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns (9%): 27% in Brown's Corners, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Brown's Corners expensive for Ontario?
About average: Brown's Corners’s census median is close to the $695,000 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).