Photo: Timepages · CC0A home in Minto is worth 52% less than the middle of New Brunswick’s towns
In figures: $90,000 for the median home in 2021, $187,000 for the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ. Sales are published too: 90 buyers in 2023, at a median $95,000.
Minto’s homes, by three sources
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
- $116K
- Owners
- 810
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $117K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.6×
- Buyers
- 90
- 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).
Minto’s detached houses are assessed 65% below the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Detached houses account for 82% of the 1,070 properties on Minto’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.
15% of Minto’s households are in core housing need, against 4% for New Brunswick’s towns
Minto had 1,045 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 80% of them 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
| Minto | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 11% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 15% | 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.
6.2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Minto: fewer than New Brunswick’s towns (10.9)
Some 6 homes a year: 30 in all were permitted in Minto from 2018 to 2022. Single-unit buildings took 85% of them, where New Brunswick’s towns built 64%.
Most in 2022: 9 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.
Minto is 52% below the $187,000 median of New Brunswick’s towns
The census values of New Brunswick’s towns, 60 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Minto: Chipman
The places around Minto at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Minto
Is Minto expensive for New Brunswick?
Below the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000; Minto’s is worth less.
What is the average house price in Minto?
Buyers paid $117,000 on average in 2023, or 1.6 years of their income at the median.
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).