Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0An apartment town: 52% of Glebe-Dows Lake’s homes, against 13% across Ontario’s towns
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $1,000,000; averaged, their homes came to $1,160,414. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices. Sale prices aren’t published in Ontario: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Glebe-Dows Lake.
What Glebe-Dows Lake’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. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices. Nobody publishes assessed values, values by property type and building permits for Glebe-Dows Lake alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Ottawa.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.16M
- Owners
- 3,095
- 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 Ottawa carry assessments 74% over the middle 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.
61% of Glebe-Dows Lake’s homes predate 1961, against 22% for Ontario’s towns
Glebe-Dows Lake had 6,360 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Glebe-Dows Lake | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 14% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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.
24.3 new homes a year per 1,000 in Ottawa: more than Ontario’s towns (15)
Building permits added 58,242 homes in Ottawa between 2018 and 2023: some 9,707 a year. Single-unit buildings took 22%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 66% for Ontario’s towns.
A peak in 2020: 11,449 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 11,998 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 10% more
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 Ottawa-Gatineau metro area
Glebe-Dows Lake against Ontario’s towns: 44% over 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 Glebe-Dows Lake: Centretown, Old Ottawa South and West Centretown
Next to Glebe-Dows Lake: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glebe-Dows Lake | $1M | $1.16M | 49% | |
| Centretown | $500K | $592K | 25% | 1.4 |
| Old Ottawa South | $900K | $1M | 73% | 1.4 |
| West Centretown | $624K | $639K | 24% | 1.6 |
| Old Ottawa East | $850K | $916K | 49% | 1.7 |
| Civic Hospital | $850K | $879K | 64% | 2 |
| Alta Vista | $900K | $878K | 74% | 2.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Glebe-Dows Lake
Is Glebe-Dows Lake expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Glebe-Dows Lake ranks among the dearer of Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
How many households in Glebe-Dows Lake are in core housing need?
In Glebe-Dows Lake, 9% 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).