Photo: Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Homes built before 1961 make up 27% of Westwood, against 5% for Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $302,000, with an average of $315,829. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Westwood.
What Westwood’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. For assessed values, values by property type and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Edmonton, Westwood included.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $316K
- Owners
- 350
- 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
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.
More apartments than most: 67% of the homes in Westwood (Alberta’s towns: 14%)
Westwood had 1,635 occupied homes at the 2021 census. 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
| Westwood | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 11% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 28% | 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.
Permits in Edmonton ran at 26 homes a year per 1,000, where Alberta’s towns ran at 7.5
Some 10,205 homes a year: 61,232 in all were permitted in Edmonton from 2018 to 2023. 32% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
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
Measured across the Edmonton metro area: monthly permits
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.
Westwood is cheaper than most of Alberta’s towns: 25% under their $400,000 median
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 Westwood: Alberta Avenue, Delton and Parkdale
The places around Westwood at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westwood | $302K | $316K | 21% | |
| Alberta Avenue | $270K | $270K | 55% | 1 |
| Delton | $280K | $284K | 58% | 1.1 |
| Lauderdale | $300K | $298K | 52% | 2 |
| Parkdale | $250K | $277K | 55% | 2 |
| Eastwood | $270K | $281K | 38% | 2.2 |
| McCauley | $250K | $287K | 28% | 2.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Westwood
How many households in Westwood are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns (8%): 28% in Westwood, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Westwood expensive for Alberta?
No: Westwood’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).