Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainBathurst’s median sale runs 39% lower than across New Brunswick’s towns
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $140,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $162,800. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $62,700. New building in Bathurst ran at about 20 homes a year between 2018 and 2023.
Three ways to price a home in Bathurst
Three sources, each set against New Brunswick’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $163K
- Owners
- 1,920
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $158K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.3×
- Buyers
- 145
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $239K
all residential
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $140K
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 Bathurst is assessed 44% lower than across New Brunswick’s towns
Assessors listed 2,440 residential properties in Bathurst for 2024, 87% of them detached houses.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of New Brunswick’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 New Brunswick’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
95% of Bathurst’s homes are detached houses, where New Brunswick’s towns have 82%
People lived in 2,105 homes in Bathurst at the 2021 census. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bathurst | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 4% | 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.
Bathurst permitted 5.6 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 10.9 of New Brunswick’s towns
Most were houses: 98% went into single-unit buildings, against 64% for New Brunswick’s towns.
A peak in 2018: 63 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.
Bathurst is cheaper than most of New Brunswick’s towns: 25% under their $187,000 median
60 of New Brunswick’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 Bathurst: Beresford
The places around Bathurst at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Bathurst
How many households in Bathurst are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Bathurst’s households in core housing need, much as for New Brunswick’s towns (4%).
What is the average house price in Bathurst?
The average sale was $158,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 1.3 times their income.
Is Bathurst expensive for New Brunswick?
Below the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000; Bathurst’s is worth less.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
Not here: individual sales sit with provincial registries and aren’t open, so the published figures are town medians and averages.
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).