Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Permits in Stettler added just 2.7 homes a year for every 1,000, where Alberta’s towns added 7.5
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $250,000; averaged, their homes came to $262,800. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Alberta; the census value stands in for Stettler. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $235,000.
What Stettler’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $263K
- Owners
- 1,745
- 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 Stettler is assessed 22% lower than across Alberta’s towns
In 2024, Stettler had 2,235 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 77% of them and condos 3%.
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.
How Stettler’s homes break down, by age and kind
2,380 occupied homes stood in Stettler in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 68% of them. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Stettler | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Stettler’s busiest year for permits was 2022, with 10 new homes
Stettler issued permits for 32 new homes from 2019 to 2023, or about 6 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 63% in single-unit buildings (Alberta’s towns: 69%).
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.
Stettler against Alberta’s towns: 38% 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 Stettler: Trochu
Next to Stettler: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Distances here run 5–71 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Stettler.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stettler | $250K | $263K | 73% | |
| Stettler County No. 6 | $318K | $367K | 89% | 4.5 |
| Starland County | $250K | $308K | 88% | 63.4 |
| Trochu | $220K | $229K | 76% | 65.2 |
| Camrose County | $380K | $412K | 89% | 69.2 |
| Ponoka | $258K | $270K | 73% | 70.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Stettler
How many households in Stettler are in core housing need?
In Stettler, 2% of households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Stettler expensive for Alberta?
No: Stettler’s census median is below the $400,000 of Alberta’s towns.
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).