Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 3.0Home values in Mount Joy run 73% higher 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. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices. For Mount Joy there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario.
What Mount Joy’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 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
- $1.21M
- Owners
- 2,445
- 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). · Assessed values, values by property type and building permits for the city of Markham
Markham’s detached houses are assessed at 3.7 times the median of Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 108,480 residential properties in Markham for 2024, 61% of them detached houses and 16% 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.
Single-detached houses are 85% of Mount Joy’s homes, against 60% for Ontario’s towns
Mount Joy had 2,680 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 2000. 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
| Mount Joy | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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 Markham ran at 12.4 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Some 1,551 homes a year: 9,308 in all were permitted in Markham from 2018 to 2023. Only 16% went into single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
The busiest year: 2021, with 2,900 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 35,927 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 13% fewer
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. · Monthly permits: the Toronto metro area
Mount Joy against Ontario’s towns: 73% over the $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 Mount Joy: Greensborough, Upper Cornell and Cornell
Next to Mount Joy: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Joy | $1.2M | $1.21M | 91% | |
| Markham Village | $1.2M | $1.21M | 75% | 0.9 |
| Greensborough | $1.1M | $1.15M | 89% | 1.2 |
| Wismer Commons | $1.17M | $1.15M | 84% | 1.6 |
| Quantztown | $1.4M | $1.32M | 91% | 2.4 |
| Upper Cornell | $1M | $1.11M | 90% | 2.7 |
| Cornell | $950K | $1.03M | 82% | 2.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mount Joy
Is Mount Joy expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Mount Joy’s is worth more.
How many households in Mount Joy are in core housing need?
6% of Mount Joy’s households, under 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).