Photo: ChadPerez49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Buttonville’s home values run 2.2 times those of the middle of Ontario’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $1,500,000 in 2021, where the median of Ontario’s towns was $695,000. For Buttonville there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $787,000. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices. For assessed values, values by property type and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Markham, Buttonville included.
Two ways to price a home in Buttonville
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.54M
- Owners
- 4,110
- 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).
Markham’s detached houses are assessed at 3.7 times the median of Ontario’s towns
Of Markham’s 108,480 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 61% are detached houses and 16% are 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.
Buttonville’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, 78% of Buttonville’s 4,640 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 2001. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Buttonville | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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.
Building at the pace of Ontario’s towns: 12.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Markham, against 15
Markham issued permits for 9,308 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 1,551 a year. Very few were houses: 16% in single-unit buildings (Ontario’s towns: 66%). Buttonville doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from 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.
Buttonville is dearer than most of Ontario’s towns: 116% above their $695,000 median
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 Buttonville: Brown's Corners, Cathedraltown and Berczy Village
The places around Buttonville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttonville | $1.5M | $1.54M | 89% | |
| Brown's Corners | $700K | $769K | 67% | 1.8 |
| Cachet | $2M | $2.27M | 91% | 2.6 |
| Unionville | $1.51M | $1.5M | 84% | 3 |
| Cathedraltown | $1.25M | $1.31M | 86% | 3.7 |
| Berczy Village | $1.3M | $1.24M | 85% | 4.3 |
| Quantztown | $1.4M | $1.32M | 91% | 5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Buttonville
Is Buttonville expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Buttonville ranks among the dearer of Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
How many households in Buttonville are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Ontario’s towns (9%): 7% in Buttonville, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).