Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain53% of Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights’s homes have been built since 2001, against 17% for Ontario’s towns
A median of $650,000 and a mean of $666,025: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. No sales are published for towns in Ontario, Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights included, so owners’ values are the measure. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $370,000. MPAC hasn’t reassessed since its 1 January 2016 values, which is why the figure sits well under the census value; it compares only within Ontario. Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Ottawa.
What Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $666K
- Owners
- 3,770
- 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.
The homes of Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights, by period and type
4,530 occupied homes stood in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 57% of them. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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 ahead of Ontario’s towns: 24.3 new homes a year per 1,000 in Ottawa, against 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.
The busiest year: 2020, with 11,449 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 10%: 11,998 new homes in the year to August 2026
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: the Ottawa-Gatineau metro area
Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights against Ontario’s towns: about level with the $695,000 median
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.
Lower values near Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights: Old Barrhaven East and Old Barrhaven West
Next to Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights | $650K | $666K | 84% | |
| Chapman Mills | $636K | $653K | 72% | 2 |
| Old Barrhaven East | $600K | $600K | 78% | 2 |
| Riverside South - Leitrim | $750K | $752K | 88% | 2.2 |
| Stonebridge - Half Moon Bay | $700K | $747K | 81% | 4.2 |
| Merivale Gardens - Grenfell Glen - Pineglen - Country Place | $800K | $817K | 83% | 4.7 |
| Old Barrhaven West | $600K | $621K | 90% | 4.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights
How many households in Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
Is Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights expensive for Ontario?
Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights is close to the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000.
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).