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Property prices in Allendale · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes built before 1961 make up 43% of Allendale, against 5% for Alberta’s towns

Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $428,000, the average one $478,167. For Allendale there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta. Assessors valued the median residential property at $360,000 for 2024. Allendale doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Edmonton.

Median home value
$428K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $478K
Median assessed value
$360K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
10,205
permits, 2018–2023
26 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
600
census 2021
45% of households
What homes are worth

What Allendale’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. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.

Census 2021$428K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$478K
Owners
600
Alberta’s towns
$400K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$360K

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).

By type of home

On the assessment roll, Edmonton’s houses sit 30% above Alberta’s towns

Detached houses account for 61% of the 347,170 properties on Edmonton’s 2024 roll; condos for 18%.

Assessed value

Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns

Detached houses$429K
Semi-detached$358K
Row houses$218K
Condos$151K
The mix of properties
Detached houses61%
Condos18%
Row houses11%
Semi-detached9%
1,970 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (Alberta’s towns: 1,960 sq ft)
854 sq ft
living area of the median condo

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

More homes in poor repair than most: 9% in Allendale (Alberta’s towns: 5%)

Of the 1,340 homes people lived in across Allendale at the 2021 census, 46% were single-detached houses. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns

Before 196143%
1961–198029%
1981–20005%
2001–20157%
2016–202110%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses46%
Semi-detached houses5%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex33%
Apartments, under 5 storeys15%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
AllendaleAlbertaCanada
Condominiums4%15%8%
Needing major repairs9%5%6%
Too small for the household3%4%3%
Households in core housing need11%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.

New homes

26 new homes a year per 1,000 in Edmonton: more than Alberta’s towns (7.5)

Some 10,205 homes a year: 61,232 in all were permitted in Edmonton from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 32%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

The busiest year: 2022, with 12,256 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
05,00010,00015,000201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Edmonton26
Alberta’s towns7.5
The typical Canadian town13.8
$1,907M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023
The metro area

Slowing: 21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 15% fewer

010,00020,00030,00020212022202320242025

Shared with the rest of the Edmonton metro area: monthly permits

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.

Across Alberta

Allendale sits close to the $400,000 median of Alberta’s towns

478 of Alberta’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Allendale: Pleasantview, Queen Alexandra and Empire Park

Next to Allendale: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

PleasantviewQueen AlexandraMcKernanMalmo PlainsBelgraviaEmpire ParkPleasantviewQueen AlexandraMcKernanMalmo PlainsBelgraviaEmpire ParkAllendale
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Allendale$428K$478K45%
Pleasantview$400K$466K53%1.2
Queen Alexandra$380K$423K26%1.3
McKernan$600K$670K52%1.3
Malmo Plains$460K$473K64%1.8
Belgravia$750K$770K72%2
Empire Park$258K$272K12%2

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Allendale

How many households in Allendale are in core housing need?

Above the norm for Alberta’s towns (8%): 11% in Allendale, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.

Is Allendale expensive for Alberta?

About average: Allendale’s census median is close to the $400,000 of Alberta’s towns.

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).