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Property prices in Glenora · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes in Glenora are worth 63% more than the median of Alberta’s towns

Owners put the median home at $650,000 at the 2021 census; for Alberta’s towns the median is $400,000. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Glenora. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $360,000. Figures for assessed values, values by property type and building permits are published for the city of Edmonton as a whole, not for Glenora alone.

Median home value
$650K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $748K
Median assessed value
$360K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
10,205
permits, 2018–2023
26 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
1,900
census 2021
77% of households
What homes are worth

Glenora’s homes, by two sources

Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.

Census 2021$650K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$748K
Owners
1,900
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

Assessors listed 347,170 residential properties in Edmonton for 2024, 61% of them detached houses and 18% condos.

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

Before 1961: 47% of the homes in Glenora, where Alberta’s towns have 5%

The 2021 census counted 2,495 occupied homes in Glenora; 73% of them are 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 196147%
1961–198020%
1981–20007%
2001–201512%
2016–202112%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses73%
Semi-detached houses3%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex3%
Apartments, under 5 storeys8%
Apartments, 5+ storeys11%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
GlenoraAlbertaCanada
Condominiums16%15%8%
Needing major repairs6%5%6%
Too small for the household2%4%3%
Households in core housing need7%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

Edmonton issued permits for 61,232 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 10,205 a year. Single-unit buildings took 32%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.

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. · Area behind the monthly permits figures: the Edmonton metro area

Across Alberta

Glenora is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 63% above their $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 Glenora: North Glenora, West Jasper Place and Westmount

The places around Glenora at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.

North GlenoraWest Jasper PlaceWestmountCanoraParkviewJasper ParkNorth GlenoraWest Jasper PlaceWestmountCanoraParkviewJasper ParkGlenora
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Glenora$650K$748K77%
North Glenora$424K$456K65%1.2
West Jasper Place$400K$376K25%1.6
Westmount$516K$560K56%1.7
Canora$324K$326K48%1.7
Parkview$695K$813K83%1.9
Jasper Park$324K$337K52%2.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Glenora

Is Glenora expensive for Alberta?

More than most: Alberta’s towns have a median of $400,000, and Glenora sits above it.

How many households in Glenora are in core housing need?

About as many as elsewhere: 7% of households in Glenora, 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).