Hillview sits 34% below Alberta’s towns on home values
The census median was $264,000 in 2021, against $400,000 for Alberta’s towns. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. What homes sold for in Hillview isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Alberta.
Two ways to price a home in Hillview
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $299K
- Owners
- 1,445
- 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). · Assessed values, values by property type and building permits: the city of Edmonton
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.
53% of Hillview’s homes are condos, where Alberta’s towns have 15%
Of the 2,160 homes people lived in across Hillview at the 2021 census, 32% were row 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
| Hillview | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 53% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 8% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 13% | 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
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Edmonton created 61,232 homes, about 10,205 a year. About 32% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%. Behind monthly permits sits data gathered across the Edmonton metro area, with Hillview one part of it.
A peak 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
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.
Hillview is 34% below 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.
Home values around Hillview
Next to Hillview: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Hillview
Is Hillview expensive for Alberta?
No: Hillview’s census median is below the $400,000 of Alberta’s towns.
How many households in Hillview are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 13% of Hillview’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 8% 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).