Photo: Connormah · CC0Owners in Twin Brooks value their homes 25% above the median of Alberta’s towns
That is a median of $500,000 at the 2021 census, set beside $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. No sales are published for towns in Alberta, Twin Brooks included, so owners’ values are the measure.
Twin Brooks’s homes, by two sources
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $515K
- Owners
- 1,670
- 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
Edmonton’s detached houses are assessed 30% above the median of Alberta’s towns
In 2024, Edmonton had 347,170 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 61% of them and 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.
How Twin Brooks’s homes break down, by age and kind
Of the 1,790 homes people lived in across Twin Brooks at the 2021 census, 83% were single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001. 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
| Twin Brooks | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 15% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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
Some 10,205 homes a year: 61,232 in all were permitted in Edmonton from 2018 to 2023. About 32% went into single-unit buildings, where Alberta’s towns built 69%.
Most 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
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over 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.
Twin Brooks is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 25% above their $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 Twin Brooks: MacEwan, Skyrattler and Bearspaw
The places around Twin Brooks at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Brooks | $500K | $515K | 93% | |
| MacEwan | $400K | $353K | 58% | 0.9 |
| Skyrattler | $360K | $404K | 57% | 1.3 |
| Mactaggart | $700K | $734K | 72% | 1.8 |
| Bearspaw | $392K | $399K | 85% | 2.1 |
| Cavanagh | $480K | $492K | 87% | 2.2 |
| Blue Quill | $460K | $398K | 42% | 2.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Twin Brooks
How many households in Twin Brooks are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 4% of Twin Brooks’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Twin Brooks expensive for Alberta?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Twin Brooks’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).