Owners put the median home in Minchau at $348,000
Some 615 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. No open sale prices are published in Alberta, so for Minchau the census value is the measure. Assessors valued the median residential property at $360,000 for 2024. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Edmonton, with Minchau one part of it.
Two ways to price a home in Minchau
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
- $327K
- Owners
- 615
- 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
Of Edmonton’s 347,170 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 61% are detached houses and 18% are 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.
12% of Minchau’s households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns
Of the 925 homes people lived in across Minchau at the 2021 census, 69% were single-detached houses. At least half predate 2001. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Minchau | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 8% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 12% | 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.
26 new homes a year per 1,000 in Edmonton: more than Alberta’s towns (7.5)
Over 2018–2023, 61,232 homes were permitted in Edmonton, close to 10,205 each year. Single-unit buildings took 32%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
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. · Data for monthly permits covers the Edmonton metro area
Minchau is 13% 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.
Cheaper next to Minchau: Hillview, Kiniski Gardens and Pollard Meadows
Next to Minchau: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minchau | $348K | $327K | 66% | |
| Weinlos | $344K | $341K | 71% | 0.5 |
| Hillview | $264K | $299K | 67% | 0.9 |
| Bisset | $348K | $334K | 61% | 1.2 |
| Kiniski Gardens | $328K | $372K | 86% | 1.3 |
| Greenview | $376K | $376K | 81% | 1.4 |
| Pollard Meadows | $310K | $302K | 58% | 1.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Minchau
Is Minchau expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Minchau’s is worth less.
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).