An apartment town: 58% of Blue Quill’s homes, against 14% across Alberta’s towns
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $460,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $398,459. For Blue Quill there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta. Assessors valued the median residential property at $360,000 for 2024. Nobody publishes assessed values, values by property type and building permits for Blue Quill alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Edmonton.
What Blue Quill’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Alberta’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $398K
- Owners
- 785
- 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).
A detached house in Edmonton is assessed 30% higher than across Alberta’s towns
Of Edmonton’s 347,170 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 61% are detached houses and 18% are condos.
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.
Core housing need: 16% of Blue Quill’s households, where Alberta’s towns sit at 8%
At the 2021 census, Blue Quill had 1,900 homes with someone living in them. At least half predate 1981. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Blue Quill | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 33% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 14% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 16% | 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.
Permits in Edmonton ran at 26 homes a year per 1,000, where Alberta’s towns ran at 7.5
Over 2018–2023, 61,232 homes were permitted in Edmonton, close to 10,205 each year. The mix: 32% in single-unit buildings, beside 69% for Alberta’s towns.
Most in 2022: 12,256 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 15% fewer
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Edmonton 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.
Blue Quill is 15% above the $400,000 median of Alberta’s towns
The census values of Alberta’s towns, 478 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Blue Quill: Skyrattler, Ermineskin and Duggan
Next to Blue Quill: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Quill | $460K | $398K | 42% | |
| Sweet Grass | $492K | $405K | 62% | 0.6 |
| Greenfield | $448K | $458K | 83% | 1.1 |
| Skyrattler | $360K | $404K | 57% | 1.2 |
| Ermineskin | $400K | $353K | 44% | 1.4 |
| Duggan | $416K | $403K | 59% | 2 |
| Royal Gardens | $400K | $343K | 55% | 2.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Blue Quill
Is Blue Quill expensive for Alberta?
Yes: Blue Quill’s census median is above 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).