Photo: Chaughten · CC BY-SA 3.0Nain sits 53% below Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns on home values
The 2021 census gives $100,000 as the median value; Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns come to $215,000. No sales are published for towns in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nain included, so owners’ values are the measure.
One measure for Nain: the census
No sale or assessment figure is published here, so the census value stands alone, beside the median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $121K
- Owners
- 190
- Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
- $215K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
22% of Nain’s households are in core housing need, against 6% for Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
At the 2021 census, 86% of Nain’s 245 occupied homes were single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
Homes by kind
| Nain | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 27% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 14% | 1% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 22% | 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.
Nain is 53% below the $215,000 median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
32 of Newfoundland and Labrador’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.
Questions about property prices in Nain
Is Nain expensive for Newfoundland and Labrador?
Less than most: Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns have a median of $215,000, and Nain sits below it.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021. 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).