Photo: Marinadeshippagan · Public domainShippagan’s median sale runs 37% lower than across New Brunswick’s towns
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $160,000; averaged, their homes came to $179,600. Assessors valued the median residential property at $121,000 for 2024.
Three ways to price a home in Shippagan
Each source sits beside its own median for New Brunswick’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $180K
- Owners
- 810
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $145K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.2×
- Buyers
- 35
- 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).
Shippagan’s detached houses are assessed 25% below the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Assessors listed 940 residential properties in Shippagan for 2024, 79% of them 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.
Shippagan’s homes: when they went up and what they are
1,200 occupied homes stood in Shippagan in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 67% of them. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Shippagan | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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.
Shippagan against New Brunswick’s towns: 14% under the $187,000 median
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 Shippagan: Caraquet, Shippagan and Lamèque
The places around Shippagan at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Shippagan
What is the average house price in Shippagan?
An average of $145,000 in 2023, with the median sale at 1.2 times the buyer’s income.
How many households in Shippagan are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Shippagan’s households in core housing need, much as for New Brunswick’s towns (4%).
Is Shippagan expensive for New Brunswick?
Below the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000; Shippagan’s is worth less.
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. 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).