Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0An apartment town: 47% of Windsor Park’s homes, against 5% across Nova Scotia’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $400,000, with an average of $425,591. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. Sales are published too: 8,470 buyers in 2023, at a median $493,000. Windsor Park doesn’t get its own sale prices, assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Halifax.
Three ways to price a home in Windsor Park
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Nova Scotia’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $426K
- Owners
- 2,470
- Nova Scotia’s towns
- $250K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale, wider area
- Average sale
- $530K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 3.3×
- Buyers
- 8,470
- Nova Scotia’s towns
- $205K
all residential
- Nova Scotia’s towns
- $157K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Halifax’s detached houses are assessed at 2.4 times the median of Nova Scotia’s towns
Detached houses account for 71% of the 131,695 properties on Halifax’s 2024 roll; condos for 7%.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Nova Scotia’s towns
Canadian Housing Statistics Program, table 46-10-0093 (2024): residential properties on the assessment roll, vacant land left out. The ticks are the median of Nova Scotia’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
15% of Windsor Park’s households are in core housing need, against 8% for Nova Scotia’s towns
People lived in 6,255 homes in Windsor Park at the 2021 census. Half went up before 1981. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Nova Scotia’s towns
Homes by kind
| Windsor Park | Nova Scotia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 1% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 9% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 15% | 8% | 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.
Halifax permitted 24.4 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 13.5 of Nova Scotia’s towns
Building permits added 26,323 homes in Halifax between 2018 and 2023: some 4,387 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 19% were single-unit, against 63% for Nova Scotia’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 5,355 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 5,538 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 15% fewer
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Halifax metro area
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.
Windsor Park is 60% above the $250,000 median of Nova Scotia’s towns
90 of Nova Scotia’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 Windsor Park: Austinville and Mount Royale
Next to Windsor Park: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park | $400K | $426K | 40% | |
| North End | $500K | $531K | 24% | 1.7 |
| Fairview | $400K | $425K | 37% | 1.9 |
| Westmount | $500K | $548K | 51% | 2.7 |
| Austinville | $360K | $402K | 29% | 3.2 |
| Mount Royale | $348K | $354K | 28% | 3.4 |
| Schmidtville | $548K | $668K | 14% | 3.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Windsor Park
Is Windsor Park expensive for Nova Scotia?
Dearer than the middle: Nova Scotia’s towns come to $250,000, Windsor Park to more.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
Only in total: Statistics Canada releases each town’s median and average sale and its number of buyers, never a single sale.
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).