Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0A median $196,000: what owners say homes in Sackville are worth
Some 1,750 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. Statistics Canada counted 140 buyers in 2023, paying a median $235,000. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $175,000.
Sackville’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. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $210K
- Owners
- 1,750
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $230K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 2.3×
- Buyers
- 140
- 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).
Sackville’s homes by type: detached houses lead, at 86%
The 2024 assessment roll counts 2,125 homes in Sackville, detached houses 86% of them.
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.
An older stock than most: 33% of Sackville’s homes go back before 1961 (New Brunswick’s towns: 18%)
Of the 2,690 homes people lived in across Sackville at the 2021 census, 65% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sackville | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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.
8.8 new homes a year per 1,000 in Sackville: in step with New Brunswick’s towns (10.9)
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Sackville created 161 homes, about 27 a year. About 24% went into single-unit buildings, where New Brunswick’s towns built 64%.
A peak in 2023: 77 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.
Sackville sits near the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($187,000)
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.
Lower values near Sackville: Sackville, Dorchester and Amherst
The places around Sackville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sackville | $196K | $210K | 66% | |
| Sackville | $180K | $194K | 95% | 8.1 |
| Dorchester | $84K | $103K | 83% | 10.9 |
| Amherst | $139K | $161K | 57% | 15.1 |
| Memramcook | $180K | $210K | 88% | 17.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sackville
How many households in Sackville are in core housing need?
4% of Sackville’s households, near the 4% of New Brunswick’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
What is the average house price in Sackville?
An average of $230,000 in 2023, with the median sale at 2.3 times the buyer’s income.
Is Sackville expensive for New Brunswick?
Sackville is close to the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000.
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).