Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0For every 1,000 homes, Carstairs permitted 23 new ones a year; Alberta’s towns permitted 7.5
Owners valued the median home at $352,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $369,600. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Carstairs. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $395,000.
Two ways to price a home in Carstairs
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $370K
- Owners
- 1,585
- 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).
On the assessment roll, Carstairs’s houses sit 29% above Alberta’s towns
Of Carstairs’s 1,900 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 85% are detached houses.
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.
Since 2001: 56% of the homes in Carstairs, where Alberta’s towns have 24%
1,840 occupied homes stood in Carstairs in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 80% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Carstairs | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 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.
The peak came in 2022, when Carstairs permitted 60 new homes
Over 2018–2023, 253 homes were permitted in Carstairs, close to 42 each year. 81% were single-unit buildings, beside 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.
Carstairs against Alberta’s towns: 12% 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 Carstairs: Didsbury
The places around Carstairs at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carstairs | $352K | $370K | 86% | |
| Didsbury | $286K | $291K | 79% | 11.6 |
| Crossfield | $380K | $392K | 83% | 14.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Carstairs
How many households in Carstairs are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 3% of Carstairs’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Carstairs expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Carstairs’s is worth 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).