Photo: MikeStnly · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Minden Hills are worth 28% less than the median of Ontario’s towns
In figures: $500,000 for the median home in 2021, $695,000 for the middle of Ontario’s towns. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. No open sale prices are published in Ontario, so for Minden Hills the census value is the measure.
Two ways to price a home in Minden Hills
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
- $578K
- Owners
- 2,850
- 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).
Minden Hills’s detached houses are assessed 14% above the median of Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 6,375 homes in Minden Hills, detached houses 90% of them.
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 93% of Minden Hills’s homes, against 60% for Ontario’s towns
People lived in 3,230 homes in Minden Hills at the 2021 census. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Minden Hills | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Minden Hills permitted 15.7 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Building permits added 244 homes in Minden Hills between 2018 and 2022: some 49 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 87% in single-unit buildings (Ontario’s towns: 66%).
A peak in 2022: 73 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.
Minden Hills against Ontario’s towns: 28% under 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 Minden Hills: Highlands East
The places around Minden Hills at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Minden Hills has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 18–49 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minden Hills | $500K | $578K | 89% | |
| Algonquin Highlands | $600K | $688K | 92% | 18.1 |
| Haliburton Village | $600K | $677K | 85% | 23.1 |
| Highlands East | $400K | $511K | 89% | 35 |
| Trent Lakes | $700K | $781K | 94% | 43.1 |
| Lake of Bays | $800K | $1.03M | 91% | 48.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Minden Hills
Is Minden Hills expensive for Ontario?
No: Minden Hills’s census median is below the $695,000 of Ontario’s towns.
How many households in Minden Hills are in core housing need?
In Minden Hills, 8% of households are in core housing need, close to the 9% of Ontario’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
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).