Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0Since 2001, Brentwood has built 76% of the homes it has today; British Columbia’s towns, 24%
A median of $790,000 and a mean of $942,924: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. Sales are published too: 7,270 buyers in 2023, at a median $761,000. Figures for sale prices, assessed values, values by property type and building permits are published for the city of Burnaby as a whole, not for Brentwood alone.
Brentwood’s homes, by three sources
Each source sits beside its own median for British Columbia’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $943K
- Owners
- 6,855
- British Columbia’s towns
- $720K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale, wider area
- Average sale
- $950K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 6.2×
- Buyers
- 7,270
- British Columbia’s towns
- $682K
all residential
- 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).
Houses in Burnaby carry 2.6 times the assessment of the median for British Columbia’s towns
Condos account for 51% of the 87,280 properties on Burnaby’s 2024 roll.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of British Columbia’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 British Columbia’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
80% of Brentwood lives in apartments, where British Columbia’s towns have 12%
People lived in 10,940 homes in Brentwood at the 2021 census. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of British Columbia’s towns
Homes by kind
| Brentwood | British Columbia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 81% | 10% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 8% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 17% | 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.
Burnaby permitted 38.9 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 18.1 of British Columbia’s towns
Burnaby issued permits for 26,151 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 4,359 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only under 1% were single-unit, against 27% for British Columbia’s towns.
Most in 2022: 6,578 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
26,358 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 11% 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. · Not measured by town: monthly permits (the Vancouver metro area)
Brentwood against British Columbia’s towns: 10% over the $720,000 median
254 of British Columbia’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.
Brentwood’s neighbours by home value
Next to Brentwood: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Brentwood
How many households in Brentwood are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 17% of Brentwood’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 10% of British Columbia’s towns.
Is Brentwood expensive for British Columbia?
More than most: British Columbia’s towns have a median of $720,000, and Brentwood sits above it.
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 · 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).