Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Mount Pearl adds housing slowly, at 2.5 new homes a year per 1,000 (Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns: 6.1)
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $290,000, the average one $296,800. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. For Mount Pearl there is no published sale price, as for every town in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Mount Pearl’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $297K
- Owners
- 7,050
- Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
- $215K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential
- Properties
- 8,545
- 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).
Core housing need: 10% of Mount Pearl’s households, where Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns sit at 6%
Mount Pearl had 9,930 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 45% of them single-detached houses. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
Homes by kind
| Mount Pearl | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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.
Mount Pearl’s busiest year for permits was 2020, with 43 new homes
Mount Pearl issued permits for 151 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 25 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 89% in single-unit buildings (Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns: 83%). Behind monthly permits sits data gathered across the St. John's metro area, with Mount Pearl one part of it.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 22%: 1,578 new homes in the year to August 2026
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.
Mount Pearl is 35% 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Home values around Mount Pearl
Next to Mount Pearl: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pearl | $290K | $297K | 71% | |
| Paradise | $348K | $373K | 78% | 5 |
| St. John's | $306K | $343K | 61% | 6.6 |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove | $276K | $275K | 88% | 9.4 |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's | $376K | $408K | 86% | 10 |
| Conception Bay South | $300K | $325K | 82% | 13.2 |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove | $424K | $518K | 92% | 16.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mount Pearl
Is Mount Pearl expensive for Newfoundland and Labrador?
More than most: Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns have a median of $215,000, and Mount Pearl sits above it.
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).