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Property prices in Vauxhall · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Vauxhall sits 50% below Alberta’s towns on home values

The 2021 census gives $200,000 as the median value; Alberta’s towns come to $400,000. For Vauxhall there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $182,000.

Median home value
$200K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $213K
Median assessed value
$182K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
2
permits, 2018–2023
5.5 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
335
census 2021
76% of households
What homes are worth

What Vauxhall’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. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$213K
Owners
335
Alberta’s towns
$400K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$182K

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).

By type of home

Houses in Vauxhall carry assessments 38% under the middle of Alberta’s towns

The 2024 assessment roll counts 440 homes in Vauxhall, detached houses 81% of them.

Assessed value

Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns

Detached houses$205K
Mobile homes$52K
The mix of properties
Detached houses81%
Mobile homes11%
1,720 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (Alberta’s towns: 1,960 sq ft)

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.

The homes

Core housing need: 17% of Vauxhall’s households, where Alberta’s towns sit at 8%

At the 2021 census, 81% of Vauxhall’s 440 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns

Before 196121%
1961–198047%
1981–200024%
2001–20157%
2016–2021under 1%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses81%
Semi-detached houses2%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys2%
Movable dwellings12%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
VauxhallAlbertaCanada
Condominiums3%15%8%
Needing major repairs6%5%6%
Too small for the household8%4%3%
Households in core housing need17%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.

New homes

Permits in Vauxhall ran at 5.5 homes a year per 1,000, where Alberta’s towns ran at 7.5

Building permits added 12 homes in Vauxhall between 2018 and 2023: some 2 a year. 25% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

A peak in 2022: 8 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
02468201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Vauxhall5.5
Alberta’s towns7.5
The typical Canadian town13.8
$623K
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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.

Across Alberta

Vauxhall is 50% 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.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Home values around Vauxhall

The places around Vauxhall at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. No closer places have figures: these lie 18–36 km from Vauxhall.

TaberTaberBarnwellTaberTaberBarnwellVauxhall
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Vauxhall$200K$213K76%
Taber$376K$403K77%18
Taber$260K$281K73%31.2
Barnwell$348K$356K84%36.3

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Vauxhall

Is Vauxhall expensive for Alberta?

No: Vauxhall’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).