Photo: Atimukoh · CC BY-SA 4.0An apartment town: 83% of DT Fairview’s homes, against 13% across Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $516,000, with an average of $585,361. For DT Fairview there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $563,000. Ontario’s assessments are still on MPAC’s values of 1 January 2016, far below today’s prices, so they compare only with other Ontario towns. For assessed values, values by property type and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Mississauga, DT Fairview included.
Two ways to price a home in DT Fairview
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $585K
- Owners
- 3,265
- 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).
Houses in Mississauga carry 2.9 times the assessment of the median for Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 209,490 residential properties in Mississauga for 2024, 46% of them detached houses and 21% 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.
Condominiums are 52% of DT Fairview’s homes, against 7% for Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census counted 7,145 occupied homes in DT Fairview. At least half predate 1981. 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
| DT Fairview | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 52% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 19% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 23% | 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: 17.5 new homes a year per 1,000 in Mississauga, against 15
Some 4,120 homes a year: 24,718 in all were permitted in Mississauga from 2018 to 2023. Only 3% went into single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
Most in 2022: 6,235 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. · Monthly permits: one figure for all of the Toronto metro area
DT Fairview is cheaper than most of Ontario’s towns: 26% under 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.
Home values around DT Fairview
The places around DT Fairview at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DT Fairview | $516K | $585K | 45% | |
| DT Core | $552K | $582K | 53% | 1.1 |
| DT Cooksville | $500K | $473K | 39% | 1.3 |
| Mississauga Valleys | $760K | $790K | 78% | 1.5 |
| Fairview | $950K | $953K | 80% | 1.5 |
| Uptown | $640K | $623K | 61% | 2.4 |
| Cooksville NHD (West) | $900K | $1.01M | 69% | 2.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in DT Fairview
How many households in DT Fairview are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns (9%): 23% in DT Fairview, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is DT Fairview expensive for Ontario?
Less than most: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and DT Fairview sits below it.
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).