An apartment town: 59% of Rustic’s homes, against 13% across Ontario’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $1,000,000 and an average of $1,067,407. What homes sold for in Rustic isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Ontario. 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 Rustic one part of it.
Rustic’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. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.07M
- Owners
- 1,350
- 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
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.
More need than most: 23% of households in Rustic (Ontario’s towns: 9%)
People lived in 3,535 homes in Rustic at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 1981. 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
| Rustic | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 21% | 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.
Toronto permitted 17.6 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15 of Ontario’s towns
Some 20,789 homes a year: 124,736 in all were permitted in Toronto from 2018 to 2023. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 5%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.
The busiest year: 2020, with 27,295 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
35,927 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 13% on the year before
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. · Monthly permits: one figure for all of the Toronto metro area
Rustic is 44% 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 Rustic: Brookhaven-Amesbury, Oakdale-Beverley Heights and Weston
Next to Rustic: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rustic | $1M | $1.07M | 37% | |
| Brookhaven-Amesbury | $900K | $884K | 41% | 1.4 |
| Oakdale-Beverley Heights | $900K | $962K | 43% | 1.5 |
| Maple Leaf | $1M | $1.13M | 55% | 1.8 |
| Weston | $850K | $822K | 35% | 1.9 |
| Pelmo Park-Humberlea | $900K | $921K | 81% | 2.7 |
| Downsview | $900K | $952K | 53% | 2.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Rustic
Is Rustic expensive for Ontario?
Yes: Rustic’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).