Photo: Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil · CC BY 2.050% of Rockcliffe-Smythe’s homes are apartments, against 13% for Ontario’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $850,000 and an average of $825,160. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Ontario; the census value stands in for Rockcliffe-Smythe.
Two ways to price a home in Rockcliffe-Smythe
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. 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
- $825K
- Owners
- 5,085
- 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
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.
23% of Rockcliffe-Smythe’s households are in core housing need, against 9% for Ontario’s towns
The 2021 census counted 9,020 occupied homes in Rockcliffe-Smythe. At least half predate 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
| Rockcliffe-Smythe | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 14% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 23% | 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
Some 20,789 homes a year: 124,736 in all were permitted in Toronto from 2018 to 2023. Only 5% went into single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns. For monthly permits, the only official count covers all of the Toronto metro area, Rockcliffe-Smythe included.
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
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.
Rockcliffe-Smythe is 22% 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 Rockcliffe-Smythe: Mount Dennis
Next to Rockcliffe-Smythe: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockcliffe-Smythe | $850K | $825K | 56% | |
| Mount Dennis | $700K | $683K | 47% | 1.3 |
| Lambton Baby Point | $1.5M | $1.57M | 59% | 1.8 |
| Keelesdale-Eglinton West | $900K | $847K | 59% | 2.1 |
| Junction Area | $1M | $1.13M | 58% | 2.1 |
| Runnymede-Bloor West Village | $1.3M | $1.39M | 78% | 2.2 |
| Edenbridge-Humber Valley | $1.8M | $1.89M | 57% | 2.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Rockcliffe-Smythe
Is Rockcliffe-Smythe expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; Rockcliffe-Smythe’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).