Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners in Swan Hills value their homes 75% below the median of Alberta’s towns
That is a median of $100,000 at the 2021 census, set beside $400,000 for Alberta’s towns. Sale prices aren’t published in Alberta: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Swan Hills. Assessors valued the median residential property at $92,400 for 2024.
What Swan Hills’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. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $116K
- Owners
- 345
- 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 Swan Hills is assessed 69% lower than across Alberta’s towns
The 2024 assessment roll counts 575 homes in Swan Hills, detached houses 69% of them.
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.
18% of Swan Hills’s households are in core housing need, against 8% for Alberta’s towns
490 occupied homes stood in Swan Hills in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 83% of them. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Swan Hills | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 18% | 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.
Swan Hills is cheaper than most of Alberta’s towns: 75% under their $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.
Home values around Swan Hills
Next to Swan Hills: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Swan Hills has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 66–74 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swan Hills | $100K | $116K | 71% | |
| Whitecourt | $324K | $319K | 68% | 66.3 |
| Woodlands County | $416K | $456K | 93% | 67.7 |
| Slave Lake | $320K | $325K | 66% | 74 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Swan Hills
Is Swan Hills expensive for Alberta?
Less than most: Alberta’s towns have a median of $400,000, and Swan Hills sits below it.
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).