The middle home in Crawford Plains is valued at $348,000
Some 815 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Crawford Plains. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $360,000. Crawford Plains doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Edmonton.
Two ways to price a home in Crawford Plains
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $342K
- Owners
- 815
- 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
Detached houses account for 61% of the 347,170 properties on Edmonton’s 2024 roll; condos for 18%.
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.
How Crawford Plains’s homes break down, by age and kind
At the 2021 census, 74% of Crawford Plains’s 1,060 occupied homes were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Crawford Plains | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 14% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 9% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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
Building permits added 61,232 homes in Edmonton between 2018 and 2023: some 10,205 a year. 32% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 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
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. · Not measured by town: monthly permits (the Edmonton metro area)
Crawford Plains is 13% below 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Crawford Plains: Pollard Meadows and Meyokumin
Next to Crawford Plains: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford Plains | $348K | $342K | 76% | |
| Daly Grove | $344K | $326K | 69% | 0.9 |
| Pollard Meadows | $310K | $302K | 58% | 1.2 |
| Laurel | $436K | $439K | 79% | 1.4 |
| Sakaw | $344K | $328K | 63% | 1.6 |
| Meyokumin | $296K | $282K | 60% | 1.7 |
| Bisset | $348K | $334K | 61% | 1.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Crawford Plains
How many households in Crawford Plains are in core housing need?
7% of Crawford Plains’s households, near the 8% of Alberta’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Crawford Plains expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Crawford Plains 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).