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Cramahe

A rural township just off Highway 401, with the village of Colborne at its centre.

$656,657Average sale price, Oct 20266th most affordable of 7
136Average days on marketSlowest of 7
9Homes sold in October58 active listings
98%Sale price vs list priceTied Highest of 7
Moving from the GTA?

Why people choose Cramahe.

1

Why people move here

Just off Highway 401 about 140 km east of Toronto, with Colborne as the township's main centre.

2

Room to breathe

About 6,500 people live across roughly 202 square kilometres, around 32 people per square kilometre in 2021.

3

Communities

Cramahe includes Banford Station, Castleton, Colborne, Dundonald, East Colborne and Edville, among others.

Population and growth

Cramahe keeps growing.

How many people call Cramahe home, and how fast that number is rising.

6,509Population, 2021 censusStatistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
6,355Population, 2016 censusStatistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population
+2.4%Growth, 2016 to 2021Census to census
+154New neighbours since 2016Added in five years

Census check: Cramahe counted 6,355 people in the 2016 census and 6,509 in 2021. Colborne, the largest community, counted 1,474 people in 2021.

Census counts: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, as published in Wikipedia: Cramahe, Ontario and the Township of Cramahe population page. Canada's 2026 census results are not out until 2027.

A little history

How Cramahe became Cramahe.

From the first settlers to today, the moments that shaped the town.

Where the name comes from

Named for Hector Theophilus de Cramahé, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec from 1771 to 1774.

Two municipalities become one

Colborne separated from the township as its own village in 1858, and the two were reamalgamated on January 1, 2001.

About 1819

Joseph Keeler opens a store on the site of present-day Colborne, then known as Keeler's Creek.

1850

Cramahe is incorporated as a township.

1858

The Village of Colborne separates from the township.

2001

Colborne and Cramahe reamalgamate to form an expanded Township of Cramahe.

History summarized from Wikipedia: Cramahe, Ontario. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA.

Thinking about Cramahe?

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