Photo: Visit-World. com Author: www.visit-world.com · CC BY-SA 3.0Owners put the median home in Gibsons at $715,000
Behind it are the answers of 1,715 owners at the 2021 census. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. In 2023, 165 homes changed hands at a median price of $849,000, by Statistics Canada’s count.
Three ways to price a home in Gibsons
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
- $782K
- Owners
- 1,715
- British Columbia’s towns
- $720K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $830K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 6.1×
- Buyers
- 165
- 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).
A detached house in Gibsons is assessed 25% higher than across British Columbia’s towns
Of Gibsons’s 2,200 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 52% are detached houses and 10% are condos.
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 condos than most: 27% of the homes in Gibsons (British Columbia’s towns: 10%)
2,280 occupied homes stood in Gibsons in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 56% of them. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of British Columbia’s towns
Homes by kind
| Gibsons | British Columbia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 27% | 10% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 12% | 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.
Gibsons against British Columbia’s towns: about level with the $720,000 median
The census values of British Columbia’s towns, 254 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Home values around Gibsons
Next to Gibsons: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibsons | $715K | $782K | 75% | |
| Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast | $800K | $848K | 82% | 2.3 |
| Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast | $850K | $974K | 80% | 4 |
| Roberts Creek | $1M | $1.1M | 76% | 8.6 |
| Bowen Island | $1.25M | $1.44M | 85% | 12 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Gibsons
What is the average house price in Gibsons?
Buyers paid $830,000 on average in 2023, or 6.1 years of their income at the median.
How many households in Gibsons are in core housing need?
12% of Gibsons’s households, near 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.
Is Gibsons expensive for British Columbia?
In the middle: British Columbia’s towns come to $720,000, and so, near enough, does Gibsons.
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).