Photo: Kay Röllig · CC BY 3.0In Dover, 17% of households can’t afford a home that is big enough and in good repair (Alberta’s towns: 8%)
A median of $300,000 and a mean of $286,178: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Dover. Assessors valued the median residential property at $525,000 for 2024. Figures for assessed values, values by property type and building permits are published for the city of Calgary as a whole, not for Dover alone.
What Dover’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Alberta’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $286K
- Owners
- 2,945
- 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).
Houses in Calgary carry assessments 88% over the middle of Alberta’s towns
Of Calgary’s 483,605 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 62% are detached houses and 18% are condos.
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.
More condos than most: 21% of the homes in Dover (Alberta’s towns: 15%)
4,680 occupied homes stood in Dover in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 42% of them. At least half predate 1981. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Dover | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 21% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 17% | 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.
Calgary permitted 26.6 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns
Building permits added 77,275 homes in Calgary between 2018 and 2023: some 12,879 a year. Single-unit buildings took 26%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
The busiest year: 2023, with 18,187 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Level with the year before: 26,142 new homes to August 2026
Monthly permits for the Calgary metro area
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.
Dover is 25% below the $400,000 median of Alberta’s towns
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.
Cheaper next to Dover: Penbrooke Meadows
Next to Dover: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover | $300K | $286K | 63% | |
| Erin Woods | $312K | $326K | 72% | 1.3 |
| Forest Lawn | $320K | $323K | 32% | 1.4 |
| Albert Park/Radisson Heights | $352K | $364K | 39% | 2.2 |
| Forest Heights | $298K | $290K | 66% | 3 |
| Penbrooke Meadows | $250K | $247K | 64% | 3.3 |
| Inglewood | $500K | $540K | 56% | 3.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Dover
Is Dover expensive for Alberta?
Cheaper than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, Dover to less.
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).