Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Apartments make up 41% of the homes in West Hill, where Ontario’s towns have 13%
Owners valued the median home at $790,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $777,228. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices. No open sale prices are published in Ontario, so for West Hill the census value is the measure.
What West Hill’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Ontario’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. MPAC hasn’t reassessed since its 1 January 2016 values, which is why the figure sits well under the census value; it compares only within Ontario. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Toronto, with West Hill one part of it.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $777K
- Owners
- 6,020
- 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.
Condominiums are 21% of West Hill’s homes, against 7% for Ontario’s towns
At the 2021 census, West Hill had 10,155 homes with someone living in them. At least half predate 1981. 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
| West Hill | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 21% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 16% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 21% | 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.
17.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Toronto: in step with Ontario’s towns (15)
Building permits added 124,736 homes in Toronto between 2018 and 2023: some 20,789 a year. Only 5% went into single-unit buildings, beside 66% for Ontario’s towns. West Hill doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Toronto metro area.
Most 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.
West Hill is 14% 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 West Hill: Scarborough Village
The places around West Hill at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Hill | $790K | $777K | 60% | |
| Guildwood | $950K | $948K | 78% | 2.2 |
| Morningside | $800K | $783K | 59% | 2.5 |
| Highland Creek | $1M | $1.14M | 86% | 2.7 |
| Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn | $900K | $866K | 50% | 3.1 |
| Centennial Scarborough | $960K | $1.07M | 92% | 3.2 |
| Scarborough Village | $500K | $786K | 45% | 3.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in West Hill
How many households in West Hill are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 21% of West Hill’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 9% of Ontario’s towns.
Is West Hill expensive for Ontario?
Above the norm for Ontario’s towns, whose median home is worth $695,000; West Hill’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).