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Property prices in Richibucto · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Richibucto’s median sale runs 44% lower than across New Brunswick’s towns

In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $180,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $209,200. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $51,800.

Median home value
$180K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $209K
Median sale price
$135K
CHSP, 2023
65 buyers
Median assessed value
$52K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
860
census 2021
92% of households
What homes are worth

What Richibucto’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.

Census 2021$180K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$209K
Owners
860
New Brunswick’s towns
$187K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Sales, 2023$135K

median sale price

Average sale
$173K
÷ buyers’ income
1.3×
Buyers
65
New Brunswick’s towns
$239K
Assessed, 2024$52K

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

Richibucto’s detached houses are assessed 35% below the median of New Brunswick’s towns

The 2024 assessment roll counts 1,235 homes in Richibucto, detached houses 87% of them.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$117K
Mobile homes$52K
Multi-unit properties$203K
The mix of properties
Detached houses87%
Mobile homes9%
Multi-unit properties3%
1,170 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

95% of Richibucto’s homes are detached houses, where New Brunswick’s towns have 82%

At the 2021 census, Richibucto had 945 homes with someone living in them. The older half dates from before 2001.

When they were built

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

Before 196119%
1961–198028%
1981–200033%
2001–201513%
2016–20217%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses95%
Semi-detached houses1%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys1%
Movable dwellings2%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
RichibuctoNew BrunswickCanada
Condominiums2%2%8%
Needing major repairs9%7%6%
Too small for the household1%2%3%
Households in core housing need5%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

Richibucto 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.

Median value, census 2021

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

Lower values near Richibucto: Richibucto, Wellington and Saint-Charles

Next to Richibucto: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

RextonRichibuctoWellingtonSaint-CharlesRichibucto 15BouctoucheRextonRichibuctoWellingtonSaint-CharlesRichibucto 15BouctoucheRichibucto
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Richibucto$180K$209K92%
Rexton$174K$193K79%7.4
Richibucto$125K$161K58%9.6
Wellington$160K$197K94%14.7
Saint-Charles$150K$166K87%15.4
Richibucto 15––5%16.1
Bouctouche$196K$224K62%17.7

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Richibucto

What is the average house price in Richibucto?

The average sale was $173,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 1.3 times their income.

How many households in Richibucto are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts 5% of Richibucto’s households in core housing need, much as for New Brunswick’s towns (4%).

Is Richibucto expensive for New Brunswick?

On census values, Richibucto sits mid-table among 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. 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).