Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainThe middle home in Upham is valued at $170,000
505 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. In 2023, 30 homes changed hands at a median price of $240,000, by Statistics Canada’s count. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $92,100.
What Upham’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. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $193K
- Owners
- 505
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $210K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.9×
- Buyers
- 30
- 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 Upham carry assessments 19% under the middle of New Brunswick’s towns
Of Upham’s 605 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 83% 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.
Major repairs needed: 11% of the homes in Upham, where New Brunswick’s towns have 7%
550 occupied homes stood in Upham in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 94% 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
| Upham | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 11% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
Building behind New Brunswick’s towns: 7.7 new homes a year per 1,000 in Upham, against 10.9
Over 2019–2022, 17 homes were permitted in Upham, close to 4 each year. Houses dominate the permits, at 100% in single-unit buildings (New Brunswick’s towns: 64%).
A peak in 2020: 5 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
1,384 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 41% on the year before
The monthly permits numbers here cover the Saint John metro area
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.
Upham is 9% below 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 Upham: Saint Martins
The places around Upham at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Upham
What is the average house price in Upham?
The average sale was $210,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 1.9 times their income.
Is Upham expensive for New Brunswick?
Below the norm for New Brunswick’s towns, whose median home is worth $187,000; Upham’s is worth less.
How many households in Upham are in core housing need?
In line with New Brunswick’s towns (4%): 4% in Upham, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).