Photo: James Mann from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada · CC BY 2.0Riverview’s median sale runs 35% higher than across New Brunswick’s towns
A median of $200,000 and a mean of $222,600: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $230,000.
Three ways to price a home in Riverview
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
- $223K
- Owners
- 6,585
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $320K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 2.7×
- Buyers
- 515
- 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).
A detached house in Riverview is assessed 30% higher than across New Brunswick’s towns
Of Riverview’s 6,820 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 80% are detached houses.
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.
The homes of Riverview, by period and type
Riverview had 8,650 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 64% of them single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Riverview | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 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.
Permits in Riverview ran at 21.3 homes a year per 1,000, where New Brunswick’s towns ran at 10.9
Building permits added 920 homes in Riverview between 2019 and 2023: some 184 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 12% were single-unit, against 64% for New Brunswick’s towns.
Most in 2021: 333 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 2,699 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 4% fewer
Measured across the Moncton metro area: monthly permits
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.
Riverview sits near the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($187,000)
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 Riverview: Hillsborough and Hillsborough
The places around Riverview at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | $200K | $223K | 76% | |
| Moncton | $200K | $238K | 56% | 5.9 |
| Coverdale | $236K | $264K | 95% | 7 |
| Dieppe | $250K | $274K | 69% | 7.3 |
| Moncton | $230K | $274K | 93% | 13.9 |
| Hillsborough | $150K | $179K | 95% | 15.2 |
| Hillsborough | $160K | $207K | 79% | 17.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Riverview
How many households in Riverview are in core housing need?
6% of Riverview’s households, above the 4% of New Brunswick’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
What is the average house price in Riverview?
An average of $320,000 in 2023, with the median sale at 2.7 times the buyer’s income.
Is Riverview expensive for New Brunswick?
In the middle: New Brunswick’s towns come to $187,000, and so, near enough, does Riverview.
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).