Photo: Benjamin Pickles · CC BY-SA 2.0Owners put the median home in Paris at $700,000
It is the middle of what 12,120 owner households told the 2021 census. For Paris there is no published sale price, as for every town in Ontario. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $335,000. 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.
What Paris’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $787K
- Owners
- 12,120
- 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).
Paris’s detached houses are assessed 47% above the median of Ontario’s towns
Detached houses account for 82% of the 14,360 properties on Paris’s 2024 roll.
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.
31% of Paris’s homes predate 1961, against 22% for Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census counted 14,330 occupied homes in Paris; 81% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Paris | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
Paris permitted 31.1 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Building permits added 2,681 homes in Paris between 2018 and 2023: some 447 a year. 60% were single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns. Figures for monthly permits are published for the Brantford metro area as a whole, not for Paris alone.
A peak in 2020: 715 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Level with the year before: 1,505 new homes 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.
Paris sits close to the $695,000 median of Ontario’s towns
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 Paris: Brantford
The places around Paris at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | $700K | $787K | 88% | |
| Brantford | $552K | $589K | 66% | 9.6 |
| Ayr | $850K | $925K | 88% | 13.9 |
| Plattsville | $700K | $766K | 85% | 16.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Paris
How many households in Paris are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Ontario’s towns (9%): 5% in Paris, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Paris expensive for Ontario?
About average: Paris’s census median is close to the $695,000 of Ontario’s towns.
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).