Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Dufferin Grove lives in apartments: 74% of its homes, beside 13% for Ontario’s towns
By the 2021 census, half of owned homes were worth more than $1,100,000; the average was $1,239,025. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Dufferin Grove. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $557,000. 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 Dufferin Grove one part of it.
What Dufferin Grove’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.24M
- Owners
- 2,185
- 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).
Toronto’s detached houses are assessed at 3.1 times the median 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.
Core housing need: 24% of Dufferin Grove’s households, where Ontario’s towns sit at 9%
People lived in 5,260 homes in Dufferin Grove at the 2021 census. The majority date from before 1961. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Ontario’s towns
Homes by kind
| Dufferin Grove | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 14% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 9% | 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.
Toronto permitted 17.6 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
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. Nobody publishes monthly permits for Dufferin Grove alone, so this card uses the figure for the Toronto metro area.
A peak in 2020: 27,295 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Down 13%: 35,927 new homes in the year 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.
Dufferin Grove is dearer than most of Ontario’s towns: 58% above their $695,000 median
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 Dufferin Grove: Junction-Wallace Emerson
The places around Dufferin Grove at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dufferin Grove | $1.1M | $1.24M | 41% | |
| Junction-Wallace Emerson | $1M | $1M | 50% | 1.1 |
| Dovercourt Village | $1.2M | $1.27M | 55% | 1.2 |
| Roncesvalles | $1.4M | $1.35M | 47% | 1.2 |
| Little Portugal | $1.1M | $1.08M | 43% | 1.3 |
| Palmerston-Little Italy | $1.5M | $1.67M | 42% | 1.5 |
| Trinity-Bellwoods | $1.4M | $1.45M | 56% | 1.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Dufferin Grove
Is Dufferin Grove expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Dufferin Grove’s is worth more.
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).