Photo: Gorob · CC BY-SA 3.0Canning’s median sale runs 77% lower than across New Brunswick’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $184,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $250,000. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $71,100. From 2019 to 2023, Canning issued permits for some 5 new homes a year.
What Canning’s homes are worth, three ways
Three sources, each set against New Brunswick’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $250K
- Owners
- 480
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $92K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 0.4×
- Buyers
- 50
- 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).
Houses in Canning carry assessments 27% under the middle of New Brunswick’s towns
Detached houses account for 86% of the 810 properties on Canning’s 2024 roll.
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.
12% of Canning’s homes need major repairs, against 7% for New Brunswick’s towns
Of the 510 homes people lived in across Canning at the 2021 census, 90% were single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Canning | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 12% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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: 10.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Canning, against 10.9
Most were houses: 96% went into single-unit buildings, against 64% for New Brunswick’s towns.
A peak in 2022: 8 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.
Canning 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 Canning: Minto and Chipman
Next to Canning: 2021 census values and the share of owners. No closer places have figures: these lie 14–36 km from Canning.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canning | $184K | $250K | 95% | |
| Minto | $90K | $116K | 77% | 13.8 |
| Chipman | $80K | $105K | 79% | 28.3 |
| Maugerville | $200K | $214K | 92% | 33.8 |
| Oromocto | $250K | $258K | 49% | 35.5 |
| Springfield | $200K | $223K | 95% | 35.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Canning
What is the average house price in Canning?
Buyers paid $92,000 on average in 2023, or 0.4 years of their income at the median.
How many households in Canning are in core housing need?
Above the norm for New Brunswick’s towns (4%): 7% in Canning, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Canning expensive for New Brunswick?
In the middle: New Brunswick’s towns come to $187,000, and so, near enough, does Canning.
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).