Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Homes in Trochu are worth 45% less than the median of Alberta’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $220,000 in 2021, where the median of Alberta’s towns was $400,000. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. For Trochu there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta.
What Trochu’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Alberta’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $229K
- Owners
- 320
- 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 Trochu is assessed 42% lower than across Alberta’s towns
Detached houses account for 80% of the 450 properties on Trochu’s 2024 roll.
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.
An older stock than most: 27% of Trochu’s homes go back before 1961 (Alberta’s towns: 5%)
The 2021 census counted 430 occupied homes in Trochu; 78% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Trochu | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 11% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 22% | 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.
4.1 new homes a year per 1,000 in Trochu: fewer than Alberta’s towns (7.5)
Building permits added 7 homes in Trochu between 2018 and 2023: some 1 a year. Single-unit buildings took 57% of them, where Alberta’s towns built 69%.
The busiest year: 2022, with 4 new homes
A year with no report is left out.
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.
Trochu is 45% 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 Trochu
The places around Trochu at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trochu | $220K | $229K | 76% | |
| Kneehill County | $300K | $353K | 86% | 12.9 |
| Three Hills | $250K | $250K | 69% | 14.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Trochu
How many households in Trochu are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 22% of Trochu’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 8% of Alberta’s towns.
Is Trochu expensive for Alberta?
Below the norm for Alberta’s towns, whose median home is worth $400,000; Trochu’s is worth less.
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).