Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainFor every 1,000 homes, Stony Plain permitted 19.8 new ones a year; Alberta’s towns permitted 7.5
Owners valued the median home at $352,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $368,800. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Stony Plain. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $342,000.
What Stony Plain’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. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $369K
- Owners
- 5,200
- 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 Stony Plain: 2.7 times the assessed value
Assessors listed 6,605 residential properties in Stony Plain for 2024, 65% of them detached houses and 12% 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.
52% of Stony Plain’s homes are from 2001 or later, against 24% for Alberta’s towns
The 2021 census counted 7,135 occupied homes in Stony Plain; 58% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Stony Plain | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 18% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
2020 was the year Stony Plain built most: 264 new homes permitted
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Stony Plain created 830 homes, about 138 a year. The mix: 27% in single-unit buildings, beside 69% for Alberta’s towns. Stony Plain doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Edmonton metro area.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
21,179 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15% on the year before
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.
Stony Plain is 12% 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.
Home values around Stony Plain
Next to Stony Plain: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Plain | $352K | $369K | 73% | |
| Parkland County | $500K | $561K | 92% | 6.2 |
| Spruce Grove | $364K | $384K | 76% | 6.7 |
| Enoch Cree Nation | – | – | 16% | 18 |
| Rosenthal | $424K | $425K | 91% | 19.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Stony Plain
How many households in Stony Plain are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 12% of Stony Plain’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Stony Plain expensive for Alberta?
On census values, Stony Plain 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).