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Property prices in Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot has more households in core housing need than most: 27%, beside 10% for British Columbia’s towns

Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $800,000; averaged, their homes came to $850,000. Statistics Canada counted 35 buyers in 2023, paying a median $421,000. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $262,000.

Median home value
$800K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $850K
Median sale price
$421K
CHSP, 2023
35 buyers
Median assessed value
$262K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
205
census 2021
63% of households
What homes are worth

What Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot’s homes are worth, three ways

Each source sits beside its own median for British Columbia’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.

Census 2021$800K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$850K
Owners
205
British Columbia’s towns
$720K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2023$421K

median sale price

Average sale
$420K
÷ buyers’ income
1.8×
Buyers
35
British Columbia’s towns
$682K
Assessed, 2024$262K

all residential

Houses
$416K
Properties
850
British Columbia’s towns
$671K

Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).

The homes

More homes in poor repair than most: 11% in Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot (British Columbia’s towns: 6%)

At the 2021 census, 71% of Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot’s 325 occupied homes were single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 2000.

When they were built

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

Before 196115%
1961–198023%
1981–200014%
2001–201540%
2016–20218%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses71%
Semi-detached houses5%
Row houses8%
Flats in a duplex2%
Apartments, under 5 storeysunder 1%
Other attached2%
Movable dwellings13%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Electoral Area C, Alberni-ClayoquotBritish ColumbiaCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%10%8%
Needing major repairs11%6%6%
Too small for the household14%4%3%
Households in core housing need27%10%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.

Across British Columbia

Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot is dearer than most of British Columbia’s towns: 11% above their $720,000 median

The census values of British Columbia’s towns, 254 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

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

Cheaper next to Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot: Ucluelet, Electoral Area E, Alberni-Clayoquot and Port Alberni

The places around Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 13–68 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot.

UclueletTofinoElectoral Area D, Alberni-ClayoquotElectoral Area E, Alberni-ClayoquotPort AlberniUclueletTofinoElectoral Area D, Alberni-ClayoquotElectoral Area E, Alberni-ClayoquotPort AlberniElectoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot$800K$850K63%
Ucluelet$700K$724K67%13.2
Tofino$950K$1.1M53%21.9
Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot$800K$930K90%58.8
Electoral Area E, Alberni-Clayoquot$552K$592K87%67
Port Alberni$400K$421K69%67.8

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot

What is the average house price in Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot?

Homes sold for an average $420,000 in 2023; the median buyer paid 1.8 times their household income.

Is Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot expensive for British Columbia?

More than most: British Columbia’s towns have a median of $720,000, and Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot sits above it.

What are houses and condos assessed at in Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot?

The 2024 roll puts the median house at $416,000.

Can I see individual sales or prices by street?

Only in total: Statistics Canada releases each town’s median and average sale and its number of buyers, never a single sale.

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).