Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/sillygwailo/ - sillygwailo / Richard Eriksson · CC BY 2.0Homes in Heights are worth 2.1 times the median of British Columbia’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $1,510,000 in 2021, where the median of British Columbia’s towns was $720,000. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have 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 Heights alone.
What Heights’s homes are worth, three ways
Three sources, each set against British Columbia’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.49M
- Owners
- 5,790
- 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).
On the assessment roll, Burnaby’s houses sit at 2.6 times 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.
More need than most: 16% of households in Heights (British Columbia’s towns: 10%)
At the 2021 census, 35% of Heights’s 8,685 occupied homes were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001. 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
| Heights | British Columbia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 17% | 10% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 16% | 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
Some 4,359 homes a year: 26,151 in all were permitted in Burnaby from 2018 to 2023. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only under 1% were single-unit, against 27% for British Columbia’s towns. Heights doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Vancouver metro area.
A peak in 2022: 6,578 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Down 11%: 26,358 new homes in the year to August 2026
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.
Heights is 110% above the $720,000 median of British Columbia’s towns
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.
Lower values near Heights: Brentwood and Broadview
The places around Heights at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heights | $1.51M | $1.49M | 67% | |
| Brentwood | $790K | $943K | 63% | 1.8 |
| Holdom | $1.6M | $1.43M | 66% | 2.4 |
| Hastings-Sunrise | $1.5M | $1.49M | 56% | 2.7 |
| Lochdale | $1.5M | $1.54M | 59% | 3.2 |
| Broadview | $1.39M | $1.26M | 62% | 3.5 |
| Burrard Inlet 3 | – | – | 86% | 3.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Heights
Is Heights expensive for British Columbia?
Above the norm for British Columbia’s towns, whose median home is worth $720,000; Heights’s is worth more.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
No. Sales are published as town figures (median, average, buyers); street-level or single sales aren’t released.
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).