Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Oshawa are worth a median $695,000
42,720 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. For Oshawa there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $333,000. 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.
Two ways to price a home in Oshawa
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $705K
- Owners
- 42,720
- 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).
Oshawa’s detached houses are assessed 43% above the median of Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 54,480 homes in Oshawa: detached houses make 71% of them, condos 4%.
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.
More need than most: 15% of households in Oshawa (Ontario’s towns: 9%)
The 2021 census counted 66,630 occupied homes in Oshawa; 56% of them are single-detached houses. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Oshawa | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 15% | 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.
Oshawa permitted 19.5 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 7,770 homes were permitted in Oshawa, close to 1,295 each year. The mix: 24% in single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 2,114 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
2,751 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 47% on the year before
Monthly permits for the Oshawa metro area
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.
Oshawa sits near the middle of Ontario’s towns ($695,000)
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.
Oshawa’s neighbours by home value
Next to Oshawa: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oshawa | $695K | $705K | 64% | |
| Whitby | $850K | $894K | 82% | 7.1 |
| Bowmanville | $750K | $772K | 86% | 12.7 |
| Ajax | $850K | $874K | 84% | 15 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Oshawa
Is Oshawa expensive for Ontario?
Neither more nor less: Ontario’s towns have a median of $695,000, and Oshawa is near 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).