Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Homes in Bouctouche sell for 25% less than the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $196,000 and an average of $224,400. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $128,000.
What Bouctouche’s homes are worth, three ways
Each source sits beside its own median for New Brunswick’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $224K
- Owners
- 685
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $260K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 2.3×
- Buyers
- 80
- 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).
Detached houses make up 78% of Bouctouche’s residential properties
Of Bouctouche’s 870 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 78% are 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.
Bouctouche’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, 62% of Bouctouche’s 1,095 occupied homes were single-detached houses. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bouctouche | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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.
Building at the pace of New Brunswick’s towns: 11.9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Bouctouche, against 10.9
Some 11 homes a year: 68 in all were permitted in Bouctouche from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 46%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 64% for New Brunswick’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 29 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.
Bouctouche sits close to the $187,000 median of New Brunswick’s towns
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 Bouctouche: Wellington, Saint Mary and Richibucto
Next to Bouctouche: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouctouche | $196K | $224K | 62% | |
| Wellington | $160K | $197K | 94% | 3.6 |
| Saint Mary | $174K | $208K | 90% | 11.1 |
| Saint-Antoine | $200K | $223K | 69% | 11.5 |
| Cocagne | $200K | $225K | 86% | 13.8 |
| Richibucto | $180K | $209K | 92% | 17.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Bouctouche
How many households in Bouctouche are in core housing need?
10% of Bouctouche’s households, above the 4% of New Brunswick’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
What is the average house price in Bouctouche?
The average sale was $260,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 2.3 times their income.
Is Bouctouche expensive for New Brunswick?
On census values, Bouctouche sits mid-table among New Brunswick’s towns (median $187,000).
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).