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Property prices in Boissevain · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Boissevain sits 40% below Manitoba’s towns on home values

Owners put the median home at $180,000 at the 2021 census; for Manitoba’s towns the median is $300,000. Sales are published too: 70 buyers in 2023, at a median $149,000. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $135,000.

Median home value
$180K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $217K
Median sale price
$149K
CHSP, 2023
70 buyers
Median assessed value
$135K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
705
census 2021
79% of households
What homes are worth

What Boissevain’s homes are worth, three ways

Three sources, each set against Manitoba’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.

Census 2021$180K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$217K
Owners
705
Manitoba’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2023$149K

median sale price

Average sale
$176K
÷ buyers’ income
1.9×
Buyers
70
Manitoba’s towns
$248K
Assessed, 2024$135K

all residential

Manitoba’s towns
$201K

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

Boissevain’s detached houses are assessed 36% below the median of Manitoba’s towns

Detached houses account for 92% of the 950 properties on Boissevain’s 2024 roll.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$142K
Multi-unit properties$251K
The mix of properties
Detached houses92%
Multi-unit properties7%
1,770 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (Manitoba’s towns: 1,670 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 Manitoba’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.

The homes

15% of Boissevain’s households are in core housing need, against 7% for Manitoba’s towns

Boissevain had 980 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 84% of them single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 1980.

When they were built

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

Before 196128%
1961–198036%
1981–200021%
2001–201512%
2016–20214%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses84%
Semi-detached houses4%
Row houses3%
Flats in a duplex1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys6%
Apartments, 5+ storeysunder 1%
Movable dwellings3%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
BoissevainManitobaCanada
Condominiums3%5%8%
Needing major repairs4%6%6%
Too small for the household2%5%3%
Households in core housing need15%7%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 Manitoba

Boissevain is cheaper than most of Manitoba’s towns: 40% under their $300,000 median

The census values of Manitoba’s towns, 188 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 Boissevain: Deloraine-Winchester and Grassland

The places around Boissevain at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. No closer places have figures: these lie 29–46 km from Boissevain.

KillarneyDeloraine-WinchesterPrairie LakesGrasslandSourisKillarneyDeloraine-WinchesterPrairie LakesGrasslandSourisBoissevain
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Boissevain$180K$217K79%
Killarney$200K$219K80%29.1
Deloraine-Winchester$130K$183K84%31.8
Prairie Lakes$174K$203K90%32
Grassland$134K$164K84%43.4
Souris$220K$260K74%45.9

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Boissevain

Is Boissevain expensive for Manitoba?

Below the norm for Manitoba’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Boissevain’s is worth less.

What is the average house price in Boissevain?

Homes sold for an average $176,000 in 2023; the median buyer paid 1.9 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).