Photo: Clee7903 · CC BY-SA 4.0In Johnston Heights, 43% of households live in an apartment (British Columbia’s towns: 12%)
Owners valued the median home at $645,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $809,764. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. Sales are published too: 14,620 buyers in 2023, at a median $810,000. Johnston Heights doesn’t get its own sale prices, assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Surrey.
Johnston Heights’s homes, by three sources
Every figure here is compared within the province, against British Columbia’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $810K
- Owners
- 7,430
- British Columbia’s towns
- $720K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale, wider area
- Average sale
- $970K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 6.1×
- Buyers
- 14,620
- 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, Surrey’s houses sit at 2.1 times British Columbia’s towns
Detached houses account for 34% of the 157,375 properties on Surrey’s 2024 roll; condos for 20%.
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: 38% of the homes in Johnston Heights (British Columbia’s towns: 10%)
The 2021 census counted 10,885 occupied homes in Johnston Heights. Half or more were standing by 2000. 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
| Johnston Heights | British Columbia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 38% | 10% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 15% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 19% | 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.
Surrey permitted 29.4 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 18.1 of British Columbia’s towns
Building permits added 31,037 homes in Surrey between 2018 and 2023: some 5,173 a year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 27% for British Columbia’s towns.
Most in 2019: 6,634 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 26,358 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 11% fewer
The monthly permits numbers here cover the Vancouver metro area
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.
Johnston Heights is 10% below 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Johnston Heights: Guildford and Whalley
The places around Johnston Heights at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnston Heights | $645K | $810K | 68% | |
| Guildford | $600K | $639K | 58% | 1.3 |
| Birdland | $1M | $1.04M | 63% | 2.2 |
| Fleetwood | $1.1M | $1.1M | 75% | 3 |
| Port Mann | $1.2M | $1.21M | 64% | 3.2 |
| Fraser Heights | $1.5M | $1.44M | 83% | 3.3 |
| Whalley | $500K | $774K | 47% | 3.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Johnston Heights
How many households in Johnston Heights are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 19% of Johnston Heights’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 10% of British Columbia’s towns.
Is Johnston Heights expensive for British Columbia?
Cheaper than the middle: British Columbia’s towns come to $720,000, Johnston Heights to less.
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 · 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).