Photo: Tiado · CC BY-SA 3.0Cardston County builds fast: 21.1 new homes a year per 1,000, against 7.5 for Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $348,000, with an average of $427,000. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. What homes sold for in Cardston County isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Alberta.
What Cardston County’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
- $427K
- Owners
- 695
- 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).
Detached houses make up 79% of Cardston County’s residential properties
Detached houses account for 79% of the 1,150 properties on Cardston County’s 2024 roll.
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.
An older stock than most: 28% of Cardston County’s homes go back before 1961 (Alberta’s towns: 5%)
Cardston County had 1,140 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 98% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Cardston County | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
2022 was the year Cardston County built most: 41 new homes permitted
Building permits added 135 homes in Cardston County between 2018 and 2023: some 23 a year. Most were houses: 63% went into single-unit buildings, 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.
Cardston County against Alberta’s towns: 13% under 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 Cardston County: Cardston, Magrath and Raymond
The places around Cardston County at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Cardston County has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 9–49 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardston County | $348K | $427K | 84% | |
| Cardston | $280K | $302K | 74% | 9 |
| Magrath | $300K | $326K | 78% | 34.7 |
| Raymond | $276K | $297K | 87% | 49.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Cardston County
How many households in Cardston County are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Cardston County’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Cardston County expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Cardston County sits among the cheaper of Alberta’s towns (median $400,000).
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).