Photo: Kiyoteru Awaji · CC BY-SA 4.0Trumpeter Area’s housing is newer than most: 94% has gone up since 2001, against 24% for Alberta’s towns
A median of $468,000 and a mean of $484,939: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. No open sale prices are published in Alberta, so for Trumpeter Area the census value is the measure. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $360,000. Behind assessed values, values by property type and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Edmonton, with Trumpeter Area one part of it.
What Trumpeter Area’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $485K
- Owners
- 1,830
- 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
The 2024 assessment roll counts 347,170 homes in Edmonton: detached houses make 61% of them, condos 18%.
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.
Trumpeter Area’s homes: when they went up and what they are
The 2021 census counted 1,920 occupied homes in Trumpeter Area; 64% of them are single-detached houses. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Trumpeter Area | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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)
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Edmonton created 61,232 homes, about 10,205 a year. Single-unit buildings took 32%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns. Trumpeter Area doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Edmonton metro area.
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.
Trumpeter Area against Alberta’s towns: 17% over 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 Trumpeter Area: Westview Village, Secord and Webber Greens
Next to Trumpeter Area: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trumpeter Area | $468K | $485K | 95% | |
| Westview Village | $320K | $243K | 83% | 4.2 |
| Secord | $400K | $436K | 87% | 6.3 |
| Webber Greens | $420K | $482K | 90% | 6.4 |
| St. Albert | $424K | $455K | 83% | 6.5 |
| Britannia Youngstown | $300K | $328K | 41% | 6.7 |
| La Perle | $250K | $293K | 74% | 6.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Trumpeter Area
How many households in Trumpeter Area are in core housing need?
2% of Trumpeter Area’s households, under the 8% of Alberta’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Trumpeter Area expensive for Alberta?
Dearer than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, Trumpeter Area 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).