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Property prices in Massey Drive · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

58% of Massey Drive’s homes have been built since 2001, against 22% for Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns

Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $320,000, the average one $317,000. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Newfoundland and Labrador, so nothing here says what Massey Drive’s homes actually sold for. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $292,000.

Median home value
$320K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $317K
Median assessed value
$292K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
520
census 2021
84% of households
What homes are worth

Massey Drive’s homes, by two sources

Two sources, each set against Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.

Census 2021$320K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$317K
Owners
520
Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
$215K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$292K

all residential

Properties
665
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

Massey Drive’s homes: when they went up and what they are

The 2021 census counted 625 occupied homes in Massey Drive; 63% of them are single-detached houses.

When they were built

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

Before 19614%
1961–198011%
1981–200027%
2001–201546%
2016–202112%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses63%
Semi-detached houses2%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex35%
Apartments, under 5 storeysunder 1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Massey DriveNewfoundland and LabradorCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%2%8%
Needing major repairs2%5%6%
Too small for the household2%1%3%
Households in core housing need2%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

Massey Drive is 49% above the $215,000 median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns

The census values of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, 32 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

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

Cheaper next to Massey Drive: Corner Brook and Irishtown-Summerside

Next to Massey Drive: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

Corner BrookIrishtown-SummersideCorner BrookIrishtown-SummersideMassey Drive
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Massey Drive$320K$317K84%
Corner Brook$230K$243K63%4.5
Irishtown-Summerside$200K$205K90%6.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Massey Drive

How many households in Massey Drive are in core housing need?

2% of Massey Drive’s households, under the 6% of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.

Is Massey Drive expensive for Newfoundland and Labrador?

Above the norm for Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, whose median home is worth $215,000; Massey Drive’s is worth more.

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).