Photo: Jacob Marfo · CC BY-SA 3.0La Crète is adding housing quickly, at 24.7 new homes a year per 1,000 (Alberta’s towns: 7.5)
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $332,000, the average one $363,600. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. No open sale prices are published in Alberta, so for La Crète the census value is the measure.
La Crète’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $364K
- Owners
- 2,580
- 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 La Crète carry assessments 12% over the middle of Alberta’s towns
Detached houses account for 65% of the 3,730 properties on La Crète’s 2024 roll.
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.
A younger stock than most: 50% of La Crète’s homes went up after 2000 (Alberta’s towns: 24%)
At the 2021 census, 77% of La Crète’s 3,515 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| La Crète | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 9% | 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.
2020 was the year La Crète built most: 110 new homes permitted
From 2018 to 2023, permits in La Crète created 506 homes, about 84 a year. 73% were single-unit buildings, beside 69% for Alberta’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
La Crète is 17% 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.
Cheaper next to La Crète: High Level and Manning
Next to La Crète: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Distances here run 56–158 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from La Crète.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Crète | $332K | $364K | 85% | |
| High Level | $224K | $245K | 64% | 55.7 |
| Manning | $200K | $227K | 70% | 158.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in La Crète
How many households in La Crète are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns (8%): 4% in La Crète, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is La Crète expensive for Alberta?
Cheaper than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, La Crète to less.
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).