Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/clifbudden/ Clif Budden · CC BY 2.0A home in St. Alban's is worth 53% less than the middle of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
Owners put the median home at $100,000 at the 2021 census; for Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns the median is $215,000. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. For St. Alban's there is no published sale price, as for every town in Newfoundland and Labrador.
St. Alban's’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $139K
- Owners
- 515
- Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
- $215K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential
- Properties
- 675
- 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).
A town of houses: 97% of the homes in St. Alban's stand alone (Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns: 80%)
People lived in 560 homes in St. Alban's at the 2021 census. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
Homes by kind
| St. Alban's | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 1% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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.
St. Alban's 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.
Lower values near St. Alban's: Fortune
The places around St. Alban's at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. St. Alban's has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 45–104 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Alban's | $100K | $139K | 92% | |
| Harbour Breton | $100K | $135K | 80% | 45.4 |
| Grand Bank | $95K | $105K | 84% | 87.6 |
| Fortune | $85K | $105K | 82% | 90.3 |
| Marystown | $200K | $205K | 71% | 94.3 |
| Burin | $174K | $196K | 86% | 104.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in St. Alban's
Is St. Alban's expensive for Newfoundland and Labrador?
No: St. Alban's’s census median is below the $215,000 of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns.
How many households in St. Alban's are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 7% of households in St. Alban's, 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).