Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Leaside-Bennington are worth 2.6 times the median of Ontario’s towns
Owners put the median home at $1,800,000 at the 2021 census; for Ontario’s towns the median is $695,000. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Ontario, so nothing here says what Leaside-Bennington’s homes actually sold for.
Leaside-Bennington’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $2.04M
- Owners
- 4,670
- 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). · Source area for assessed values, values by property type and building permits: the city of Toronto
Houses in Toronto carry 3.1 times the assessment of the median for Ontario’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 840,850 homes in Toronto, condos 42% of them.
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: 67% of the homes in Leaside-Bennington, where Ontario’s towns have 22%
6,425 occupied homes stood in Leaside-Bennington in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 55% of them. 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
| Leaside-Bennington | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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 Toronto ran at 17.6 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Building permits added 124,736 homes in Toronto between 2018 and 2023: some 20,789 a year. Very few were houses: 5% in single-unit buildings (Ontario’s towns: 66%).
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
Shared with the rest of 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.
Leaside-Bennington is 159% 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 Leaside-Bennington: Mount Pleasant East, Thorncliffe Park and Broadview North
The places around Leaside-Bennington at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leaside-Bennington | $1.8M | $2.04M | 73% | |
| Mount Pleasant East | $1.51M | $1.63M | 55% | 1.6 |
| Thorncliffe Park | $476K | $589K | 14% | 1.7 |
| Broadview North | $1.2M | $1.19M | 31% | 2.3 |
| South Eglinton-Davisville | $750K | $979K | 31% | 2.3 |
| North Toronto | $750K | $791K | 19% | 2.4 |
| Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills | $4M | $3.83M | 88% | 2.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Leaside-Bennington
Is Leaside-Bennington expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Leaside-Bennington ranks among the dearer of Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
How many households in Leaside-Bennington are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 10% of households in Leaside-Bennington, where Ontario’s towns sit at 9%.
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).