Photo: Jack Borno · CC BY-SA 3.0Mountain View County sits 25% above Alberta’s towns on home values
The 2021 census gives $500,000 as the median value; Alberta’s towns come to $400,000. What homes sold for in Mountain View County isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Alberta. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $516,000.
Two ways to price a home in Mountain View County
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $549K
- Owners
- 3,320
- 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 Mountain View County carry assessments 78% over the middle of Alberta’s towns
Detached houses account for 63% of the 5,770 properties on Mountain View County’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 town of houses: 89% of the homes in Mountain View County stand alone (Alberta’s towns: 64%)
Mountain View County had 5,015 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Mountain View County | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Mountain View County permitted 10.8 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 7.5 of Alberta’s towns
Some 56 homes a year: 334 in all were permitted in Mountain View County from 2018 to 2023. Most were houses: 93% went into single-unit buildings, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 78 new homes
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.
Mountain View County against Alberta’s towns: 25% over 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.
Cheaper next to Mountain View County: Didsbury and Olds
The places around Mountain View County at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View County | $500K | $549K | 86% | |
| Didsbury | $286K | $291K | 79% | 17.1 |
| Olds | $340K | $357K | 72% | 18 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mountain View County
How many households in Mountain View County are in core housing need?
4% of Mountain View County’s households, under the 8% of Alberta’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Mountain View County expensive for Alberta?
Dearer than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, Mountain View County to more.
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).