Photo: Ross Dunn · CC BY-SA 2.0Home values in Fitzroy run 28% lower than the median of Ontario’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $500,000 in 2021, where the median of Ontario’s towns was $695,000. For Fitzroy there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $370,000. 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. Fitzroy shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Ottawa.
What Fitzroy’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $588K
- Owners
- 2,410
- 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).
Ottawa’s detached houses are assessed 74% above the median of Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 332,130 homes in Ottawa: detached houses make 53% of them, condos 11%.
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.
98% of Fitzroy’s homes are detached houses, where Ontario’s towns have 60%
People lived in 2,630 homes in Fitzroy at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 2001. 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
| Fitzroy | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 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.
Permits in Ottawa ran at 24.3 homes a year per 1,000, where Ontario’s towns ran at 15
Ottawa issued permits for 58,242 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 9,707 a year. 22% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 66% for Ontario’s towns.
The busiest year: 2020, with 11,449 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
11,998 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 10% on the year before
Measured across the Ottawa-Gatineau metro area: monthly permits
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.
Fitzroy 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 Fitzroy: Pontiac and Arnprior
Next to Fitzroy: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Fitzroy
Is Fitzroy expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Fitzroy sits among the cheaper of Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
How many households in Fitzroy are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 8% of Fitzroy’s households in core housing need, much as for Ontario’s towns (9%).
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).