Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Manning are worth 50% less than the median of Alberta’s towns
In figures: $200,000 for the median home in 2021, $400,000 for the middle of Alberta’s towns. No sales are published for towns in Alberta, Manning included, so owners’ values are the measure. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $138,000.
Two ways to price a home in Manning
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $227K
- Owners
- 330
- 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).
Manning’s detached houses are assessed 44% below the median of Alberta’s towns
Detached houses account for 79% of the 450 properties on Manning’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.
18% of Manning’s households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns
At the 2021 census, 79% of Manning’s 490 occupied homes were single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Manning | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 18% | 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.
Manning against Alberta’s towns: 50% 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.
Manning’s neighbours by home value
The places around Manning at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. The nearest places to Manning with figures are 17–88 km away.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manning | $200K | $227K | 70% | |
| Northern Lights County | $302K | $325K | 84% | 17.5 |
| Peace River | $300K | $313K | 59% | 79.7 |
| Peace No. 135 | $348K | $380K | 89% | 80.9 |
| Grimshaw | $226K | $228K | 70% | 81.9 |
| Northern Sunrise County | $300K | $332K | 83% | 88 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Manning
Is Manning expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Manning’s is worth less.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program. 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).