Home values in Hamptons run 63% higher than the median of Alberta’s towns
Owners put the median home at $650,000 at the 2021 census; for Alberta’s towns the median is $400,000. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. There is no public record of sale prices in Alberta, which leaves the census value as the guide for Hamptons.
What Hamptons’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $709K
- Owners
- 2,275
- 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). · Shared with the rest of the city of Calgary: assessed values, values by property type and building permits
A detached house in Calgary is assessed 88% higher than across 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.
A town of houses: 85% of the homes in Hamptons stand alone (Alberta’s towns: 64%)
At the 2021 census, Hamptons had 2,440 homes with someone living in them. The older half dates from before 2001. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Hamptons | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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.
26.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Calgary: more than Alberta’s towns (7.5)
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Calgary created 77,275 homes, about 12,879 a year. 26% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 69% for Alberta’s towns. Hamptons doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Calgary metro area.
Most in 2023: 18,187 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Steady: 26,142 new homes in the year to August 2026
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.
Hamptons is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 63% above their $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.
Cheaper next to Hamptons: Sherwood, Citadel and Hidden Valley
Next to Hamptons: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Hamptons
How many households in Hamptons are in core housing need?
3% of Hamptons’s households, under the 8% of Alberta’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Hamptons expensive for Alberta?
More than most: Alberta’s towns have a median of $400,000, and Hamptons sits above it.
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).