Photo: Paul Jerry · CC BY 2.0Little is being built in Brooks: 2.3 new homes a year per 1,000, against 7.5 for Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $266,000, with an average of $269,600. For Brooks there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $244,000.
Two ways to price a home in Brooks
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $270K
- Owners
- 3,325
- Alberta’s towns
- $400K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential
- Alberta’s towns
- $297K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Brooks’s houses carry 3.6 times the assessment of its condos
Detached houses account for 70% of the 4,210 properties on Brooks’s 2024 roll; condos for 11%.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Alberta’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 Alberta’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
How Brooks’s homes break down, by age and kind
Of the 5,140 homes people lived in across Brooks at the 2021 census, 55% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Brooks | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 9% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 8% | 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.
2018 was the year Brooks built most: 24 new homes permitted
Brooks issued permits for 83 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 14 a year. 36% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Brooks against Alberta’s towns: 34% under the $400,000 median
The census values of Alberta’s towns, 478 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.
Home values around Brooks
The places around Brooks at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks | $266K | $270K | 65% | |
| Newell County | $348K | $383K | 84% | 4.9 |
| Duchess | $260K | $268K | 86% | 18 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Brooks
Is Brooks expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Brooks’s is worth less.
How many households in Brooks are in core housing need?
In Brooks, 6% of households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
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).