Photo: Cszmurlo · CC BY 3.0Woodlands sits 25% above Alberta’s towns on home values
Owners put the median home at $500,000 at the 2021 census; for Alberta’s towns the median is $400,000. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. There is no public record of sale prices in Alberta, which leaves the census value as the guide for Woodlands.
What Woodlands’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $506K
- Owners
- 1,560
- 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). · Measured across the city of Calgary: assessed values, values by property type and building permits
Houses in Calgary carry assessments 88% over the middle of Alberta’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 483,605 homes in Calgary: detached houses make 62% of them, condos 18%.
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.
The homes of Woodlands, by period and type
The 2021 census counted 2,130 occupied homes in Woodlands; 68% of them are single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 1980. 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
| Woodlands | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 12% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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. About 26% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%.
A peak 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
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.
Woodlands against Alberta’s towns: 25% over the $400,000 median
478 of Alberta’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 Woodlands: Braeside, Cedarbrae and Southwood
The places around Woodlands at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Woodlands
Is Woodlands expensive for Alberta?
More than most: Alberta’s towns have a median of $400,000, and Woodlands sits above it.
How many households in Woodlands are in core housing need?
In line with Alberta’s towns (8%): 7% in Woodlands, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).