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Property prices in Morrisburg · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Home values in Morrisburg run 57% lower than the median of Ontario’s towns

Owners valued the median home at $300,000 in 2021, where the median of Ontario’s towns was $695,000. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Morrisburg. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $179,000. 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.

Median home value
$300K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $355K
Median assessed value
$179K
2024, on MPAC’s 2016 base
New homes a year
34
permits, 2018–2023
7.7 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
3,625
census 2021
81% of households
What homes are worth

Morrisburg’s homes, by two sources

Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.

Census 2021$300K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$355K
Owners
3,625
Ontario’s towns
$695K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$179K

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).

By type of home

A detached house in Morrisburg is assessed 23% lower than across Ontario’s towns

Assessors listed 4,315 residential properties in Morrisburg for 2024, 88% of them detached houses.

Assessed value

Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns

Detached houses$195K
Semi-detached$168K
Multi-unit properties$230K
The mix of properties
Detached houses88%
Multi-unit properties5%
Semi-detached5%
1,700 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (Ontario’s towns: 1,720 sq ft)

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.

The homes

Before 1961: 39% of the homes in Morrisburg, where Ontario’s towns have 22%

At the 2021 census, 80% of Morrisburg’s 4,650 occupied homes were single-detached houses.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns

Before 196139%
1961–198024%
1981–200023%
2001–201511%
2016–20212%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses80%
Semi-detached houses7%
Row houses5%
Flats in a duplex1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys5%
Apartments, 5+ storeys1%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
MorrisburgOntarioCanada
Condominiums1%7%8%
Needing major repairs8%6%6%
Too small for the household3%5%3%
Households in core housing need4%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.

New homes

Morrisburg permitted 7.7 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15 of Ontario’s towns

From 2018 to 2023, permits in Morrisburg created 203 homes, about 34 a year. Single-unit buildings took 82% of them, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

Most in 2022: 59 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
0204060201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Morrisburg7.7
Ontario’s towns15
The typical Canadian town13.8
$12M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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.

Across Ontario

Morrisburg is 57% below the $695,000 median of Ontario’s towns

871 of Ontario’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Lower values near Morrisburg: Prescott

The places around Morrisburg at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. The nearest places to Morrisburg with figures are 18–32 km away.

CardinalWinchesterPrescottLong SaultKemptvilleCardinalWinchesterPrescottLong SaultKemptvilleMorrisburg
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Morrisburg$300K$355K81%
Cardinal$348K$379K81%17.5
Winchester$400K$448K82%19.8
Prescott$250K$276K58%30.8
Long Sault$348K$388K88%30.9
Kemptville$500K$554K88%31.6

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Morrisburg

Is Morrisburg expensive for Ontario?

Less than most: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Morrisburg sits below it.

How many households in Morrisburg are in core housing need?

4% of Morrisburg’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).