Photo: Reg Natarajan from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0Owners in Elder Mills value their homes 73% above the median of Ontario’s towns
Owners put the median home at $1,200,000 at the 2021 census; for Ontario’s towns the median is $695,000. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. What homes sold for in Elder Mills isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Ontario.
Two ways to price a home in Elder Mills
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Ontario’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Ontario’s assessments are still on MPAC’s values of 1 January 2016, far below today’s prices, so they compare only with other Ontario towns. Elder Mills doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Vaughan.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.26M
- Owners
- 4,750
- 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).
A detached house in Vaughan is assessed at 3.5 times the middle of Ontario’s towns
In 2024, Vaughan had 108,165 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 62% of them and condos 18%.
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.
A younger stock than most: 40% of Elder Mills’s homes went up after 2000 (Ontario’s towns: 17%)
At the 2021 census, 73% of Elder Mills’s 4,995 occupied homes were single-detached houses. 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
| Elder Mills | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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 ahead of Ontario’s towns: 31 new homes a year per 1,000 in Vaughan, against 15
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Vaughan created 18,055 homes, about 3,009 a year. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 13%, where Ontario’s towns built 66%.
The busiest year: 2023, with 6,623 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. · Data for monthly permits covers the Toronto metro area
Elder Mills is 73% 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 Elder Mills: Woodbridge Meadows, The Ravines of Rainbow Creek and Woodbridge
Next to Elder Mills: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Mills | $1.2M | $1.26M | 95% | |
| Woodbridge Meadows | $1M | $1.16M | 95% | 1.9 |
| Pine Grove | $1.51M | $1.51M | 93% | 2.7 |
| The Ravines of Rainbow Creek | $1.1M | $1.31M | 90% | 2.8 |
| The Estates of Rainbow Creek | $1.2M | $1.17M | 91% | 3.4 |
| New Kleinburg | $1.5M | $1.8M | 92% | 3.6 |
| Woodbridge | $1M | $1.05M | 79% | 4.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Elder Mills
Is Elder Mills expensive for Ontario?
On census values, Elder Mills ranks among the dearer of Ontario’s towns (median $695,000).
How many households in Elder Mills are in core housing need?
6% of Elder Mills’s households, under the 9% of Ontario’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
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).