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Property prices in Channel-Port aux Basques · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Channel-Port aux Basques sits 30% below Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns on home values

Owners put the median home at $150,000 at the 2021 census; for Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns the median is $215,000. No sales are published for towns in Newfoundland and Labrador, Channel-Port aux Basques included, so owners’ values are the measure. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $90,800.

Median home value
$150K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $152K
Median assessed value
$91K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
1,315
census 2021
79% of households
What homes are worth

Channel-Port aux Basques’s homes, by two sources

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.

Census 2021$150K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$152K
Owners
1,315
Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
$215K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$91K

all residential

Properties
1,805
Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
$173K

Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).

The homes

An older stock than most: 32% of Channel-Port aux Basques’s homes go back before 1961 (Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns: 17%)

1,675 occupied homes stood in Channel-Port aux Basques in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 86% of them.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns

Before 196132%
1961–198039%
1981–200020%
2001–20158%
2016–20212%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses86%
Semi-detached houses2%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex5%
Apartments, under 5 storeys7%
Other attached1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Channel-Port aux BasquesNewfoundland and LabradorCanada
Condominiums2%2%8%
Needing major repairs5%5%6%
Too small for the household1%1%3%
Households in core housing need4%6%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.

Across Newfoundland and Labrador

Channel-Port aux Basques is cheaper than most of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns: 30% under their $215,000 median

32 of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Channel-Port aux Basques: Division No. 4, Subdivision B and Division No. 4, Subdivision E

The places around Channel-Port aux Basques at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 26–115 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Channel-Port aux Basques.

Division No. 4, Subdivision ADivision No. 4, Subdivision BSt. George'sDivision No. 4, Subdivision EKippensDivision No. 4, Subdivision ADivision No. 4, Subdivision BSt. George'sDivision No. 4, Subdivision EKippensChannel-Port aux Basques
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Channel-Port aux Basques$150K$152K79%
Division No. 4, Subdivision A$150K$192K94%25.8
Division No. 4, Subdivision B$129K$150K91%75.2
St. George's$150K$168K82%106.1
Division No. 4, Subdivision E$100K$148K82%110
Kippens$276K$271K88%114.9

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Channel-Port aux Basques

Is Channel-Port aux Basques expensive for Newfoundland and Labrador?

Less than most: Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns have a median of $215,000, and Channel-Port aux Basques sits below it.

How many households in Channel-Port aux Basques are in core housing need?

About as many as elsewhere: 4% of households in Channel-Port aux Basques, where Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns sit at 6%.

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).