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Property prices in Haut-Madawaska · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Haut-Madawaska’s median sale runs 57% lower than across New Brunswick’s towns

Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $120,000, the average one $127,800. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $60,700.

Median home value
$120K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $128K
Median sale price
$103K
CHSP, 2023
80 buyers
Median assessed value
$61K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
1,295
census 2021
80% of households
What homes are worth

What Haut-Madawaska’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.

Census 2021$120K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$128K
Owners
1,295
New Brunswick’s towns
$187K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2023$103K

median sale price

Average sale
$112K
÷ buyers’ income
1.4×
Buyers
80
New Brunswick’s towns
$239K
Assessed, 2024$61K

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

On the assessment roll, Haut-Madawaska’s houses sit 51% below New Brunswick’s towns

Detached houses account for 84% of the 1,635 properties on Haut-Madawaska’s 2024 roll.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$88K
Mobile homes$52K
Multi-unit properties$119K
The mix of properties
Detached houses84%
Multi-unit properties7%
Mobile homes6%
1,300 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (New Brunswick’s towns: 1,415 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 New Brunswick’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.

The homes

An older stock than most: 31% of Haut-Madawaska’s homes go back before 1961 (New Brunswick’s towns: 18%)

Of the 1,655 homes people lived in across Haut-Madawaska at the 2021 census, 76% were single-detached houses.

When they were built

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

Before 196131%
1961–198034%
1981–200023%
2001–201510%
2016–20212%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses76%
Semi-detached houses4%
Row houses5%
Flats in a duplex3%
Apartments, under 5 storeys9%
Other attached1%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Haut-MadawaskaNew BrunswickCanada
Condominiums5%2%8%
Needing major repairs7%7%6%
Too small for the household2%2%3%
Households in core housing need4%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

Haut-Madawaska is cheaper than most of New Brunswick’s towns: 36% 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.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Haut-Madawaska’s neighbours by home value

Next to Haut-Madawaska: 2021 census values and the share of owners. No closer places have figures: these lie 24–30 km from Haut-Madawaska.

EdmundstonSaint-JacquesSaint-JosephEdmundstonSaint-JacquesSaint-JosephHaut-Madawaska
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Haut-Madawaska$120K$128K80%
Edmundston$150K$170K65%24.3
Saint-Jacques$150K$163K91%26.6
Saint-Joseph$140K$165K90%30

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Haut-Madawaska

Is Haut-Madawaska expensive for New Brunswick?

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

What is the average house price in Haut-Madawaska?

Homes sold for an average $112,000 in 2023; the median buyer paid 1.4 times their household income.

How many households in Haut-Madawaska are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts 4% of Haut-Madawaska’s households in core housing need, much as for New Brunswick’s towns (4%).

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).