Photo: GoToVan from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0Homes in Osoyoos are worth 31% less than the median of British Columbia’s towns
In figures: $500,000 for the median home in 2021, $720,000 for the middle of British Columbia’s towns. Sales are published too: 255 buyers in 2023, at a median $568,000. Assessors valued the median residential property at $583,000 for 2024.
What Osoyoos’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. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $592K
- Owners
- 2,135
- British Columbia’s towns
- $720K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $590K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 3.7×
- Buyers
- 255
- 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 against condos in Osoyoos: 2.1 times the assessed value
In 2024, Osoyoos had 3,360 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 46% of them and condos 22%.
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 Osoyoos (British Columbia’s towns: 10%)
Of the 2,645 homes people lived in across Osoyoos at the 2021 census, 59% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of British Columbia’s towns
Homes by kind
| Osoyoos | British Columbia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 27% | 10% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Building at the pace of British Columbia’s towns: 16.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Osoyoos, against 18.1
Some 43 homes a year: 259 in all were permitted in Osoyoos from 2018 to 2023. 25% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 27% for British Columbia’s towns.
A peak in 2022: 92 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Osoyoos is cheaper than most of British Columbia’s towns: 31% 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Osoyoos: Oliver
The places around Osoyoos at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osoyoos | $500K | $592K | 81% | |
| Electoral Area A, Okanagan-Similkameen | $800K | $896K | 83% | 1.7 |
| Osoyoos 1 | – | – | 77% | 16.3 |
| Oliver | $452K | $489K | 78% | 18.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Osoyoos
How many households in Osoyoos are in core housing need?
2% of Osoyoos’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 Osoyoos expensive for British Columbia?
No: Osoyoos’s census median is below the $720,000 of British Columbia’s towns.
What is the average house price in Osoyoos?
An average of $590,000 in 2023, with the median sale at 3.7 times the buyer’s income.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
No. Canada has no open register of individual sales; Statistics Canada publishes medians and averages by town only.
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).