Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Legal adds housing slowly, at 2.6 new homes a year per 1,000 (Alberta’s towns: 7.5)
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $300,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $303,000. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Legal. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $249,000.
What Legal’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
- $303K
- Owners
- 345
- Alberta’s towns
- $400K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential
- Houses
- $259K
- Properties
- 495
- 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).
87% of Legal’s homes are detached houses, where Alberta’s towns have 64%
The 2021 census counted 455 occupied homes in Legal. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Legal | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 11% | 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.
The peak came in 2018, when Legal permitted 2 new homes
Legal issued permits for 8 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 1 a year. Single-unit buildings took 83% of them, where Alberta’s towns built 69%.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15% on the year before
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. · Monthly permits published for the Edmonton metro area, not by town
Legal against Alberta’s towns: 25% under the $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.
Legal’s neighbours by home value
The places around Legal at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | $300K | $303K | 76% | |
| Morinville | $348K | $340K | 83% | 16.7 |
| Bon Accord | $286K | $300K | 85% | 17 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Legal
Is Legal expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Legal’s is worth less.
How many households in Legal are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns (8%): 11% in Legal, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
What are houses and condos assessed at in Legal?
The 2024 roll puts the median house at $259,000.
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).