Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Shediac is adding housing quickly, at 62.1 new homes a year per 1,000 (New Brunswick’s towns: 10.9)
Owners valued the median home at $248,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $267,200. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. Statistics Canada counted 220 buyers in 2023, paying a median $348,000.
Three ways to price a home in Shediac
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
- $267K
- Owners
- 1,950
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $360K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 2.6×
- Buyers
- 220
- 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 Shediac carry assessments 53% over the middle of New Brunswick’s towns
In 2024, Shediac had 2,350 residential properties on the roll, detached houses 80% of them and condos 2%.
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.
More apartments than most: 30% of the homes in Shediac (New Brunswick’s towns: 5%)
Shediac had 3,290 occupied homes at the 2021 census. 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
| Shediac | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 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.
2021 was the year Shediac built most: 336 new homes permitted
Some 185 homes a year: 1,111 in all were permitted in Shediac from 2018 to 2023. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 16% were single-unit, against 64% for New Brunswick’s towns.
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.
Shediac is 33% above 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.
Lower values near Shediac: Shediac, Dundas and Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est
Next to Shediac: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shediac | $248K | $267K | 59% | |
| Shediac | $230K | $269K | 90% | 3.6 |
| Dundas | $200K | $231K | 91% | 11.6 |
| Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est | $200K | $252K | 89% | 14.7 |
| Cocagne | $200K | $225K | 86% | 18 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Shediac
How many households in Shediac are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Shediac’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 4% of New Brunswick’s towns.
Is Shediac expensive for New Brunswick?
Above the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000; Shediac’s is worth more.
What is the average house price in Shediac?
The average sale was $360,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 2.6 times their income.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
No. Canada has no open register of individual sales; Statistics Canada publishes medians and averages by town only.
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).