Photo: Authentic Alberta · CC BY-SA 4.0Nanton sits 25% below Alberta’s towns on home values
At the 2021 census the median home was worth $300,000, where Alberta’s towns sit at $400,000. For Nanton there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $297,000.
Two ways to price a home in Nanton
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
- $302K
- Owners
- 760
- 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 against condos in Nanton: 84% more on the roll
The 2024 assessment roll counts 985 homes in Nanton: detached houses make 88% of them, condos 4%.
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.
12% of Nanton’s households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns
955 occupied homes stood in Nanton in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 82% of them. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Nanton | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 12% | 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.
5.7 new homes a year per 1,000 in Nanton: fewer than Alberta’s towns (7.5)
Some 5 homes a year: 32 in all were permitted in Nanton from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 63% of them, where Alberta’s towns built 69%.
A peak in 2022: 8 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.
Nanton is 25% below the $400,000 median of Alberta’s towns
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 Nanton: Vulcan and Claresholm
Next to Nanton: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Nanton has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 27–44 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanton | $300K | $302K | 80% | |
| High River | $348K | $341K | 75% | 27.1 |
| Vulcan | $250K | $249K | 83% | 36.8 |
| Claresholm | $250K | $270K | 77% | 38 |
| Vulcan County | $348K | $368K | 82% | 42.9 |
| Okotoks | $452K | $481K | 86% | 44.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Nanton
Is Nanton expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Nanton 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).