65% of Gold Bar’s homes were built before 1961, against 5% across Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $400,000, with an average of $415,993. No open sale prices are published in Alberta, so for Gold Bar the census value is the measure. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $360,000. Gold Bar shares its assessed values, values by property type and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Edmonton.
Two ways to price a home in Gold Bar
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $416K
- Owners
- 730
- 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).
Houses in Edmonton carry assessments 30% over the middle of Alberta’s towns
Assessors listed 347,170 residential properties in Edmonton for 2024, 61% of them detached houses and 18% 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.
How Gold Bar’s homes break down, by age and kind
1,080 occupied homes stood in Gold Bar in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 76% of them. 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
| Gold Bar | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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. 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
21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15% on the year before
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.
Gold Bar against Alberta’s towns: about level with the $400,000 median
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 Gold Bar: Beverly Heights and Rundle Heights
Next to Gold Bar: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Bar | $400K | $416K | 67% | |
| Capilano | $448K | $490K | 86% | 1.1 |
| Ottewell | $420K | $419K | 69% | 1.9 |
| Forest Heights | $460K | $517K | 61% | 2.4 |
| Beverly Heights | $310K | $338K | 67% | 2.6 |
| Holyrood | $428K | $473K | 61% | 2.8 |
| Rundle Heights | $300K | $270K | 41% | 2.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Gold Bar
How many households in Gold Bar are in core housing need?
In Gold Bar, 6% of households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Gold Bar expensive for Alberta?
Neither more nor less: Alberta’s towns have a median of $400,000, and Gold Bar is near it.
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).