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Property prices in Naramata · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes in Naramata are worth 25% more than the median of British Columbia’s towns

The census median was $900,000 in 2021, against $720,000 for British Columbia’s towns. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. In 2023, 95 homes changed hands at a median price of $653,000, by Statistics Canada’s count.

Median home value
$900K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $1.02M
Median sale price
$653K
CHSP, 2023
95 buyers
Median assessed value
$909K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
725
census 2021
85% of households
What homes are worth

What Naramata’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.

Census 2021$900K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$1.02M
Owners
725
British Columbia’s towns
$720K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2023$653K

median sale price

Average sale
$970K
÷ buyers’ income
3.7×
Buyers
95
British Columbia’s towns
$682K
Assessed, 2024$909K

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

Houses in Naramata carry assessments 40% over the middle of British Columbia’s towns

Of Naramata’s 1,045 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 89% are detached houses.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$1.05M
Row houses$587K
Multi-unit properties$1.25M
The mix of properties
Detached houses89%
Multi-unit properties6%
Row houses4%
2,130 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

Single-detached houses are 93% of Naramata’s homes, against 62% for British Columbia’s towns

Naramata had 890 occupied homes at the 2021 census. At least half predate 2001.

When they were built

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

Before 196110%
1961–198030%
1981–200037%
2001–201514%
2016–202110%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses93%
Semi-detached houses1%
Row houses6%
Flats in a duplexunder 1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys1%
Other attached1%
Movable dwellingsunder 1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
NaramataBritish ColumbiaCanada
Condominiums7%10%8%
Needing major repairs6%6%6%
Too small for the householdunder 1%4%3%
Households in core housing need7%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

Naramata is 25% above the $720,000 median of British Columbia’s towns

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 Naramata: Electoral Area F, Okanagan-Similkameen, Summerland and Penticton

The places around Naramata at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.

Electoral Area F, Okanagan-SimilkameenSummerlandPentictonPenticton 1Electoral Area F, Okanagan-SimilkameenSummerlandPentictonPenticton 1Naramata
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Naramata$900K$1.02M85%
Electoral Area F, Okanagan-Similkameen$850K$962K94%6.7
Summerland$650K$714K82%7.5
Penticton$524K$569K63%12.4
Penticton 1––89%14.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Naramata

How many households in Naramata are in core housing need?

7% of Naramata’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.

Is Naramata expensive for British Columbia?

Above the norm for British Columbia’s towns, whose median home is worth $720,000; Naramata’s is worth more.

What is the average house price in Naramata?

Homes sold for an average $970,000 in 2023; the median buyer paid 3.7 times their household income.

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).