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Property prices in Cache Creek · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes in Cache Creek are worth 64% less than the median of British Columbia’s towns

Owners valued the median home at $256,000 in 2021, where the median of British Columbia’s towns was $720,000. Sales are published too: 35 buyers in 2022, at a median $400,000. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $353,000.

Median home value
$256K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $276K
Median sale price
$400K
CHSP, 2022
35 buyers
Median assessed value
$353K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
415
census 2021
86% of households
What homes are worth

What Cache Creek’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. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.

Census 2021$256K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$276K
Owners
415
British Columbia’s towns
$720K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2022$400K

median sale price

Average sale
$320K
÷ buyers’ income
4.3×
Buyers
35
British Columbia’s towns
$682K
Assessed, 2024$353K

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).

By type of home

A detached house in Cache Creek is assessed 48% lower than across British Columbia’s towns

Detached houses account for 77% of the 310 properties on Cache Creek’s 2024 roll.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$391K
Multi-unit properties$393K
The mix of properties
Detached houses77%
Multi-unit properties13%
1,870 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (British Columbia’s towns: 1,890 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 British Columbia’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.

The homes

14% of Cache Creek’s homes need major repairs, against 6% for British Columbia’s towns

475 occupied homes stood in Cache Creek in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 53% of them. Half went up before 1981.

When they were built

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

Before 196112%
1961–198054%
1981–200026%
2001–20157%
2016–2021under 1%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses53%
Semi-detached houses5%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplexunder 1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys11%
Movable dwellings28%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Cache CreekBritish ColumbiaCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%10%8%
Needing major repairs14%6%6%
Too small for the household3%4%3%
Households in core housing need4%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

Cache Creek is cheaper than most of British Columbia’s towns: 64% under their $720,000 median

254 of British Columbia’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 Cache Creek

The places around Cache Creek at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Cache Creek has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 9–48 km out.

AshcroftElectoral Area I (Blue Sky Country), Thompson-NicolaLillooetElectoral Area J (Copper Desert Country), Thompson-NicolaAshcroftElectoral Area I (Blue Sky Country), Thompson-NicolaLillooetElectoral Area J (Copper Desert Country), Thompson-NicolaCache Creek
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Cache Creek$256K$276K86%
Ashcroft$300K$304K79%9.2
Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country), Thompson-Nicola$348K$366K89%23.2
Lillooet$400K$442K83%45.5
Electoral Area J (Copper Desert Country), Thompson-Nicola$600K$678K89%48.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Cache Creek

Is Cache Creek expensive for British Columbia?

Below the norm for British Columbia’s towns, whose median home is worth $720,000; Cache Creek’s is worth less.

How many households in Cache Creek are in core housing need?

4% of Cache Creek’s households, under the 10% of British Columbia’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.

What is the average house price in Cache Creek?

Homes sold for an average $320,000 in 2022; the median buyer paid 4.3 times their household income.

Can I see individual sales or prices by street?

Not here: individual sales sit with provincial registries and aren’t open, so the published figures are town medians and averages.

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).