Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0An apartment town: 73% of Strathcona’s homes, against 14% across Alberta’s towns
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $456,000; averaged, their homes came to $501,254. 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 Strathcona isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Alberta.
What Strathcona’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $501K
- Owners
- 1,515
- 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). · Measured across the city of Edmonton: assessed values, values by property type and building permits
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.
18% of Strathcona’s households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census counted 4,920 occupied homes in Strathcona. At least half predate 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
| Strathcona | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 32% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 18% | 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.
Edmonton permitted 26 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns
Building permits added 61,232 homes in Edmonton between 2018 and 2023: some 10,205 a year. About 32% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%. Figures for monthly permits are published for the Edmonton metro area as a whole, not for Strathcona alone.
The busiest year: 2022, with 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.
Strathcona is 14% above 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 Strathcona: Ritchie, Queen Alexandra and Downtown
The places around Strathcona at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathcona | $456K | $501K | 31% | |
| Ritchie | $380K | $446K | 53% | 1.4 |
| Queen Alexandra | $380K | $423K | 26% | 1.5 |
| Garneau | $480K | $750K | 26% | 1.7 |
| Downtown | $332K | $366K | 28% | 1.8 |
| Bonnie Doon | $400K | $492K | 53% | 1.8 |
| Riverdale | $496K | $561K | 49% | 2.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Strathcona
Is Strathcona expensive for Alberta?
Dearer than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, Strathcona to 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).