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Property prices in Bisset · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Half the owned homes in Bisset are valued above $348,000

655 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Bisset. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $360,000. Bisset 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
$348K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $334K
Median assessed value
$360K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
10,205
permits, 2018–2023
26 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
655
census 2021
61% of households
What homes are worth

Bisset’s homes, by two sources

Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.

Census 2021$348K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$334K
Owners
655
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

Edmonton’s detached houses are assessed 30% above the median of Alberta’s towns

The 2024 assessment roll counts 347,170 homes in Edmonton: detached houses make 61% of them, condos 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

Condominiums are 28% of Bisset’s homes, against 15% for Alberta’s towns

The 2021 census counted 1,075 occupied homes in Bisset; 58% of them are single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001. 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 19611%
1961–198019%
1981–200066%
2001–201511%
2016–20211%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses58%
Semi-detached houses1%
Row houses13%
Flats in a duplex6%
Apartments, under 5 storeys22%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
BissetAlbertaCanada
Condominiums28%15%8%
Needing major repairs4%5%6%
Too small for the household13%4%3%
Households in core housing need10%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

Edmonton permitted 26 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns

Building permits added 61,232 homes in Edmonton between 2018 and 2023: some 10,205 a year. Single-unit buildings took 32%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns. Behind monthly permits sits data gathered across the Edmonton metro area, with Bisset one part of it.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

Most in 2022: 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

21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15% on the year before

010,00020,00030,00020212022202320242025

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

Bisset 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.

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 Bisset: Pollard Meadows

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

Daly GroveWeinlosPollard MeadowsMinchauSilver BerryLaurelDaly GroveWeinlosPollard MeadowsMinchauSilver BerryLaurelBisset
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Bisset$348K$334K61%
Daly Grove$344K$326K69%0.9
Weinlos$344K$341K71%1
Pollard Meadows$310K$302K58%1
Minchau$348K$327K66%1.2
Silver Berry$400K$371K77%1.2
Laurel$436K$439K79%1.6

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Bisset

Is Bisset expensive for Alberta?

Less than most: Alberta’s towns have a median of $400,000, and Bisset sits below it.

How many households in Bisset are in core housing need?

About as many as elsewhere: 10% of households in Bisset, where Alberta’s towns sit at 8%.

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).