One figure stands out in Kildare: 20% of households in core housing need, against 8% across Alberta’s towns
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $332,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $295,483. There is no public record of sale prices in Alberta, which leaves the census value as the guide for Kildare. Assessors valued the median residential property at $360,000 for 2024. For assessed values, values by property type and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Edmonton, Kildare included.
Two ways to price a home in Kildare
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $295K
- Owners
- 745
- 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).
On the assessment roll, Edmonton’s houses sit 30% above 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.
Condominiums are 24% of Kildare’s homes, against 15% for Alberta’s towns
1,135 occupied homes stood in Kildare in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 48% of them. Half went up before 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
| Kildare | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 24% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 8% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 20% | 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.
Building ahead of Alberta’s towns: 26 new homes a year per 1,000 in Edmonton, against 7.5
Some 10,205 homes a year: 61,232 in all were permitted in Edmonton from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 32%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 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
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)
Kildare against Alberta’s towns: 17% under the $400,000 median
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 Kildare: York and Glengarry
The places around Kildare at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Kildare
Is Kildare expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Kildare 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).