Photo: Eric Marshall · CC BY 3.0A median $700,000: what owners say homes in Smithville are worth
Behind it are the answers of 4,505 owners at the 2021 census. There is no public record of sale prices in Ontario, which leaves the census value as the guide for Smithville. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $330,000. 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.
Two ways to price a home in Smithville
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $768K
- Owners
- 4,505
- 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 Smithville carry assessments 40% over the middle of Ontario’s towns
Of Smithville’s 5,335 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 82% are detached houses.
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.
How Smithville’s homes break down, by age and kind
Of the 5,295 homes people lived in across Smithville at the 2021 census, 84% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Smithville | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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 behind Ontario’s towns: 9.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Smithville, against 15
Over 2018–2023, 298 homes were permitted in Smithville, close to 50 each year. 36% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 66% for Ontario’s towns.
Most in 2020: 98 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.
Smithville sits near the middle of Ontario’s towns ($695,000)
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 Smithville: Westmeria
The places around Smithville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithville | $700K | $768K | 90% | |
| Grimsby | $780K | $814K | 83% | 11.2 |
| Beamsville | $695K | $734K | 84% | 13.2 |
| Fifty Point | $800K | $971K | 92% | 15.6 |
| Industrial | $850K | $909K | 86% | 16.3 |
| Trillium | $800K | $913K | 87% | 18.1 |
| Westmeria | $600K | $720K | 93% | 18.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Smithville
How many households in Smithville are in core housing need?
3% of Smithville’s households, under the 9% of Ontario’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Smithville expensive for Ontario?
In the middle: Ontario’s towns come to $695,000, and so, near enough, does Smithville.
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).