Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 2.0Home values in Provost run 40% lower than the median of Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census gives $240,000 as the median value; Alberta’s towns come to $400,000. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Provost. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $156,000.
Provost’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $245K
- Owners
- 610
- 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 Provost is assessed 46% lower than across Alberta’s towns
Assessors listed 780 residential properties in Provost for 2024, 85% of them detached houses.
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.
Before 1961: 26% of the homes in Provost, where Alberta’s towns have 5%
At the 2021 census, 80% of Provost’s 760 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Provost | 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 | 13% | 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.
Provost is 40% below the $400,000 median of Alberta’s towns
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 Provost: Macklin
Next to Provost: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Distances here run 17–67 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Provost.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provost | $240K | $245K | 80% | |
| Provost No. 52 | $250K | $306K | 85% | 17.3 |
| Macklin | $220K | $237K | 80% | 21.4 |
| Special Area No. 4 | $250K | $286K | 85% | 63.8 |
| Wainwright No. 61 | $400K | $426K | 81% | 64.3 |
| Wainwright | $276K | $286K | 70% | 67.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Provost
Is Provost expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Provost’s is worth less.
How many households in Provost are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Alberta’s towns (8%): 13% in Provost, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).