Photo: Fabian Roudra Baroi · CC BY-SA 4.0Downsview lives in apartments: 52% of its homes, beside 13% for Ontario’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $900,000 and an average of $952,473. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Downsview. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $557,000. 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. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Toronto, with Downsview one part of it.
Two ways to price a home in Downsview
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
- $952K
- Owners
- 3,660
- 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 assessment roll, Toronto’s houses sit at 3.1 times Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 840,850 residential properties in Toronto for 2024, 42% of them condos.
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.
25% of Downsview’s homes are condos, where Ontario’s towns have 7%
People lived in 6,970 homes in Downsview at the 2021 census. Half went up before 1981. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Downsview | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 18% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 21% | 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.
Toronto permitted 17.6 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Toronto created 124,736 homes, about 20,789 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 5% were single-unit, against 66% for Ontario’s towns.
The busiest year: 2020, with 27,295 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Down 13%: 35,927 new homes in the year to August 2026
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Toronto metro area
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.
Downsview is 29% above 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 Downsview: York University Heights and Glenfield-Jane Heights
Next to Downsview: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downsview | $900K | $952K | 53% | |
| Maple Leaf | $1M | $1.13M | 55% | 1.7 |
| Oakdale-Beverley Heights | $900K | $962K | 43% | 2.4 |
| Rustic | $1M | $1.07M | 37% | 2.7 |
| Yorkdale-Glen Park | $1M | $1,000K | 54% | 2.9 |
| York University Heights | $800K | $732K | 47% | 3.1 |
| Glenfield-Jane Heights | $800K | $750K | 52% | 3.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Downsview
How many households in Downsview are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 21% of Downsview’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
Is Downsview expensive for Ontario?
Yes: Downsview’s census median is above 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).