Photo: Robert Blyth · CC BY-SA 2.0Rundle Heights has more households in core housing need than most: 22%, beside 8% for Alberta’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $300,000 and an average of $269,881. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No open sale prices are published in Alberta, so for Rundle Heights the census value is the measure.
Two ways to price a home in Rundle Heights
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Figures for assessed values, values by property type and building permits are published for the city of Edmonton as a whole, not for Rundle Heights alone.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $270K
- Owners
- 795
- 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.
41% of Rundle Heights’s homes are condos, where Alberta’s towns have 15%
At the 2021 census, 43% of Rundle Heights’s 1,980 occupied homes were row houses. Half went up before 1981. 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
| Rundle Heights | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 41% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 15% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 22% | 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
Edmonton issued permits for 61,232 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 10,205 a year. 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
Down 15%: 21,179 new homes in the year to August 2026
Monthly permits for the Edmonton metro area
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.
Rundle Heights is 25% 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 Rundle Heights
The places around Rundle Heights at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rundle Heights | $300K | $270K | 41% | |
| Beverly Heights | $310K | $338K | 67% | 1.1 |
| Beacon Heights | $300K | $316K | 79% | 1.4 |
| Overlanders | $348K | $325K | 36% | 1.7 |
| Newton | $300K | $316K | 78% | 2.3 |
| Belmont | $290K | $287K | 68% | 2.7 |
| Gold Bar | $400K | $416K | 67% | 2.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Rundle Heights
Is Rundle Heights expensive for Alberta?
No: Rundle Heights’s census median is below the $400,000 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).