Photo: Tudor Costache / TheGiantVermin at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5Owners in Simcoe value their homes 28% below 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. No sales are published for towns in Ontario, Simcoe included, so owners’ values are the measure. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $237,000. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices.
What Simcoe’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. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $568K
- Owners
- 21,860
- 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).
On the roll, 86% of Simcoe’s properties are detached houses
In 2024, Simcoe had 27,760 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 86% of them and condos 1%.
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.
Before 1961: 36% of the homes in Simcoe, where Ontario’s towns have 22%
Of the 27,595 homes people lived in across Simcoe at the 2021 census, 83% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Simcoe | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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 Simcoe ran at 11.6 homes a year per 1,000, where Ontario’s towns ran at 15
Over 2018–2023, 1,846 homes were permitted in Simcoe, close to 308 each year. Single-unit buildings took 60% of them, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.
The busiest year: 2020, with 431 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Simcoe is 28% below the $695,000 median of Ontario’s towns
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 Simcoe: Bayham
Next to Simcoe: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Simcoe has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 26–39 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simcoe | $500K | $568K | 82% | |
| Norwich | $600K | $682K | 85% | 25.8 |
| Tillsonburg | $500K | $522K | 71% | 29.7 |
| Brantford | $552K | $589K | 66% | 37.3 |
| Bayham | $472K | $524K | 89% | 37.6 |
| South-West Oxford | $600K | $627K | 86% | 38.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Simcoe
Is Simcoe expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Simcoe sits among the cheaper of Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
How many households in Simcoe are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Simcoe’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 9% 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).