Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Morningside Heights’s housing is newer than most: 65% has gone up since 2001, against 17% for Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $900,000, with an average of $929,450. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Ontario, so nothing here says what Morningside Heights’s homes actually sold for. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $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. Morningside Heights doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Toronto.
Two ways to price a home in Morningside Heights
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $929K
- Owners
- 5,510
- 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 Toronto carry 3.1 times the assessment of the median for 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.
Morningside Heights’s homes: when they went up and what they are
The 2021 census counted 6,535 occupied homes in Morningside Heights; 60% of them are single-detached houses. 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
| Morningside Heights | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 15% | 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.
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.
Morningside Heights is 29% above 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.
Cheaper next to Morningside Heights: Malvern East, Malvern West and Morningside
Next to Morningside Heights: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morningside Heights | $900K | $929K | 84% | |
| Malvern East | $700K | $658K | 70% | 1.9 |
| Malvern West | $695K | $685K | 74% | 2.6 |
| Highland Creek | $1M | $1.14M | 86% | 4.2 |
| Morningside | $800K | $783K | 59% | 4.4 |
| Box Grove | $1.2M | $1.22M | 86% | 4.6 |
| Vinegar Hill | $1M | $1.13M | 83% | 5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Morningside Heights
Is Morningside Heights expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Morningside Heights’s is worth more.
How many households in Morningside Heights are in core housing need?
In line with Ontario’s towns (9%): 10% in Morningside Heights, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).