Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Owners put the median home in Morinville at $348,000
Some 3,135 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. What homes sold for in Morinville isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Alberta. Assessors valued the median residential property at $322,000 for 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Morinville
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $340K
- Owners
- 3,135
- 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).
A detached house in Morinville is assessed at 2.4 times a condo
Of Morinville’s 3,595 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 79% are detached houses and 5% are condos.
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.
Since 2001: 45% of the homes in Morinville, where Alberta’s towns have 24%
The 2021 census counted 3,770 occupied homes in Morinville; 73% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Morinville | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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.
Morinville permitted 13.2 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns
Some 48 homes a year: 288 in all were permitted in Morinville from 2018 to 2023. Houses dominate the permits, at 59% in single-unit buildings (Alberta’s towns: 69%).
The busiest year: 2019, with 93 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 15% fewer
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: the Edmonton metro area
Morinville against Alberta’s towns: 13% under the $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 Morinville: Bon Accord and Legal
The places around Morinville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morinville | $348K | $340K | 83% | |
| Sturgeon County | $552K | $652K | 87% | 7.5 |
| Bon Accord | $286K | $300K | 85% | 15.8 |
| Legal | $300K | $303K | 76% | 16.7 |
| St. Albert | $424K | $455K | 83% | 17.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Morinville
How many households in Morinville are in core housing need?
In line with Alberta’s towns (8%): 7% in Morinville, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Morinville expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Morinville sits among the cheaper of Alberta’s towns (median $400,000).
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).