Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Apartments make up 47% of the homes in Dorset Park, where Ontario’s towns have 13%
The 2021 census put the median home at $700,000, with an average of $682,578. No sales are published for towns in Ontario, Dorset Park included, so owners’ values are the measure. Assessors valued the median residential property at $557,000 for 2024. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Toronto, with Dorset Park one part of it.
Two ways to price a home in Dorset Park
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $683K
- Owners
- 5,260
- 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).
A detached house in Toronto is assessed at 3.1 times the middle of Ontario’s towns
Condos account for 42% of the 840,850 properties on Toronto’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.
More condos than most: 40% of the homes in Dorset Park (Ontario’s towns: 7%)
The 2021 census counted 8,720 occupied homes in Dorset Park. At least half predate 1981. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Dorset Park | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 40% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 21% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 24% | 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 at the pace of Ontario’s towns: 17.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Toronto, against 15
Over 2018–2023, 124,736 homes were permitted in Toronto, close to 20,789 each year. Only 5% went into single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns.
The busiest year: 2020, with 27,295 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 35,927 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 13% fewer
Measured across the Toronto metro area: monthly permits
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.
Dorset Park 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.
Dorset Park’s neighbours by home value
Next to Dorset Park: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset Park | $700K | $683K | 60% | |
| Bendale-Glen Andrew | $750K | $726K | 61% | 1.7 |
| Wexford/Maryvale | $900K | $919K | 59% | 2.2 |
| Bendale South | $900K | $916K | 67% | 2.5 |
| Ionview | $800K | $806K | 39% | 3 |
| Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan | $850K | $859K | 56% | 3.1 |
| Agincourt South-Malvern West | $800K | $800K | 70% | 3.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Dorset Park
How many households in Dorset Park are in core housing need?
24% of Dorset Park’s households, above the 9% of Ontario’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Dorset Park expensive for Ontario?
Dorset Park 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).