Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0The middle home in Norton is valued at $164,000
The census of 2021 asked 480 owner households what their home was worth. Sales are published too: 65 buyers in 2023, at a median $195,000. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $104,000.
What Norton’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. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $187K
- Owners
- 480
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $181K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.6×
- Buyers
- 65
- 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 Norton carry assessments 22% under the middle of New Brunswick’s towns
Detached houses account for 86% of the 550 properties on Norton’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 Norton’s homes need major repairs, against 7% for New Brunswick’s towns
The 2021 census counted 545 occupied homes in Norton; 89% of them are 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
| Norton | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 15% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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.
Norton permitted 16.1 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 10.9 of New Brunswick’s towns
Norton issued permits for 44 new homes from 2019 to 2023, or about 9 a year. Single-unit buildings took 93% of them, where New Brunswick’s towns built 64%.
The busiest year: 2023, with 22 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.
Norton is 12% below 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.
Norton’s neighbours by home value
The places around Norton at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Norton
How many households in Norton are in core housing need?
In line with New Brunswick’s towns (4%): 6% in Norton, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
What is the average house price in Norton?
Buyers paid $181,000 on average in 2023, or 1.6 years of their income at the median.
Is Norton expensive for New Brunswick?
On census values, Norton sits among the cheaper of 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).