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Property prices in Glenelg · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Glenelg sits 30% below New Brunswick’s towns on home values

The 2021 census gives $130,000 as the median value; New Brunswick’s towns come to $187,000. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. Sales are published too: 35 buyers in 2023, at a median $197,000.

Median home value
$130K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $151K
Median sale price
$197K
CHSP, 2023
35 buyers
Median assessed value
$66K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
590
census 2021
89% of households
What homes are worth

Three ways to price a home in Glenelg

Each source sits beside its own median for New Brunswick’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.

Census 2021$130K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$151K
Owners
590
New Brunswick’s towns
$187K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2023$197K

median sale price

Average sale
$186K
÷ buyers’ income
1.8×
Buyers
35
New Brunswick’s towns
$239K
Assessed, 2024$66K

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).

By type of home

Houses in Glenelg carry assessments 42% under the middle of New Brunswick’s towns

Detached houses account for 77% of the 730 properties on Glenelg’s 2024 roll.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$104K
Mobile homes$68K
Multi-unit properties$94K
The mix of properties
Detached houses77%
Mobile homes16%
Multi-unit properties5%
1,250 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (New Brunswick’s towns: 1,415 sq ft)
57%
of properties lived in by their owner

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.

The homes

Major repairs needed: 9% of the homes in Glenelg, where New Brunswick’s towns have 7%

The 2021 census counted 655 occupied homes in Glenelg; 83% of them are 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 New Brunswick’s towns

Before 196121%
1961–198035%
1981–200028%
2001–201513%
2016–20214%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses83%
Semi-detached houses5%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplexunder 1%
Apartments, under 5 storeysunder 1%
Movable dwellings11%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
GlenelgNew BrunswickCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%2%8%
Needing major repairs9%7%6%
Too small for the household4%2%3%
Households in core housing needunder 1%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.

Across New Brunswick

Glenelg against New Brunswick’s towns: 30% under the $187,000 median

The census values of New Brunswick’s towns, 60 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 Glenelg: Rogersville

The places around Glenelg at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 20–28 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Glenelg.

MiramichiHardwickeRogersvilleRogersvilleMiramichiHardwickeRogersvilleRogersvilleGlenelg
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Glenelg$130K$151K89%
Miramichi$160K$183K70%20.4
Hardwicke$150K$169K89%21.6
Rogersville$100K$126K89%24
Rogersville$125K$131K61%28.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Glenelg

How many households in Glenelg are in core housing need?

under 1% of Glenelg’s households, under the 4% of New Brunswick’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.

Is Glenelg expensive for New Brunswick?

Below the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000; Glenelg’s is worth less.

What is the average house price in Glenelg?

An average of $186,000 in 2023, with the median sale at 1.8 times the buyer’s income.

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. 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).