Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Owners in Sandwich value their homes 60% below the median of Ontario’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $280,000 in 2021, where the median of Ontario’s towns was $695,000. Sale prices aren’t published in Ontario: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Sandwich. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $156,000. Ontario still assesses at 2016 values (MPAC’s 1 January 2016 base): a figure to set against other Ontario towns, not against prices. Sandwich shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Windsor.
Sandwich’s homes, by two sources
Two sources, each set against Ontario’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $319K
- Owners
- 2,805
- 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, Windsor’s houses sit 34% below Ontario’s towns
Assessors listed 78,145 residential properties in Windsor for 2024, 74% of them detached houses and 10% condos.
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 apartments than most: 34% of the homes in Sandwich (Ontario’s towns: 13%)
Sandwich had 5,990 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 1980. 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
| Sandwich | Ontario | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 7% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 10% | 5% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 14% | 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 behind Ontario’s towns: 7.5 new homes a year per 1,000 in Windsor, against 15
Windsor issued permits for 3,895 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 649 a year. Single-unit buildings took 25%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 66% for Ontario’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 949 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
1,277 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 32% 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. · Area behind the monthly permits figures: the Windsor metro area
Sandwich against Ontario’s towns: 60% under the $695,000 median
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 Sandwich: River West, South Central and City Centre
The places around Sandwich at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwich | $280K | $319K | 47% | |
| River West | $250K | $291K | 33% | 2.1 |
| South Cameron | $500K | $506K | 75% | 2.3 |
| South Central | $260K | $311K | 38% | 3.4 |
| City Centre | $250K | $282K | 20% | 3.5 |
| South Windsor | $448K | $510K | 89% | 4.9 |
| Walkerville | $300K | $347K | 48% | 4.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sandwich
Is Sandwich expensive for Ontario?
No: Sandwich’s census median is below the $695,000 of Ontario’s towns.
How many households in Sandwich are in core housing need?
14% of Sandwich’s households, above the 9% of Ontario’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
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).