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Property prices in Rhatigan Ridge · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

A home in Rhatigan Ridge is worth 38% more than the middle of Alberta’s towns

The census median was $552,000 in 2021, against $400,000 for Alberta’s towns. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. What homes sold for in Rhatigan Ridge isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Alberta.

Median home value
$552K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $627K
Median assessed value
$360K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
10,205
permits, 2018–2023
26 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
2,385
census 2021
95% of households
What homes are worth

What Rhatigan Ridge’s homes are worth, two ways

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Alberta’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.

Census 2021$552K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$627K
Owners
2,385
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). · Assessed values, values by property type and building permits: one figure for all of the city of Edmonton

By type of home

A detached house in Edmonton is assessed 30% higher than across Alberta’s towns

The 2024 assessment roll counts 347,170 homes in Edmonton: detached houses make 61% of them, condos 18%.

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

The homes of Rhatigan Ridge, by period and type

The 2021 census counted 2,490 occupied homes in Rhatigan Ridge; 82% of them are single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns

Before 1961under 1%
1961–19803%
1981–200086%
2001–20159%
2016–2021under 1%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses82%
Semi-detached houses7%
Row houses5%
Apartments, under 5 storeys5%
Apartments, 5+ storeys2%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Rhatigan RidgeAlbertaCanada
Condominiums15%15%8%
Needing major repairs3%5%6%
Too small for the household1%4%3%
Households in core housing need2%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

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.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

The busiest year: 2022, with 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

Down 15%: 21,179 new homes in the year to August 2026

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. · Data for monthly permits covers the Edmonton metro area

Across Alberta

Rhatigan Ridge against Alberta’s towns: 38% over the $400,000 median

The census values of Alberta’s towns, 478 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Cheaper next to Rhatigan Ridge: Haddow, Ramsay Heights and Leger

Next to Rhatigan Ridge: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

HaddowBulyea HeightsRamsay HeightsLegerCameron HeightsBrooksideHaddowBulyea HeightsRamsay HeightsLegerCameron HeightsBrooksideRhatigan Ridge
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Rhatigan Ridge$552K$627K95%
Haddow$480K$535K88%1.9
Bulyea Heights$600K$601K99%1.9
Ramsay Heights$348K$505K63%1.9
Leger$500K$522K90%2
Cameron Heights$600K$745K94%2.2
Brookside$600K$693K71%2.5

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Rhatigan Ridge

How many households in Rhatigan Ridge are in core housing need?

Below the norm for Alberta’s towns (8%): 2% in Rhatigan Ridge, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.

Is Rhatigan Ridge expensive for Alberta?

Above the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Rhatigan Ridge’s is worth more.

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).