Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Owners in New Glasgow value their homes 30% below the median of Nova Scotia’s towns
In figures: $174,000 for the median home in 2021, $250,000 for the middle of Nova Scotia’s towns. Statistics Canada counted 240 buyers in 2023, paying a median $220,000. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $165,000.
New Glasgow’s homes, by three sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Nova Scotia’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $195K
- Owners
- 2,510
- Nova Scotia’s towns
- $250K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $230K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.9×
- Buyers
- 240
- 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).
New Glasgow’s homes by type: detached houses lead, at 83%
The 2024 assessment roll counts 3,280 homes in New Glasgow, detached houses 83% of them.
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.
An older stock than most: 44% of New Glasgow’s homes go back before 1961 (Nova Scotia’s towns: 28%)
New Glasgow had 4,445 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 59% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Nova Scotia’s towns
Homes by kind
| New Glasgow | Nova Scotia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 1% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 10% | 9% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Permits in New Glasgow ran at 8.3 homes a year per 1,000, where Nova Scotia’s towns ran at 13.5
From 2018 to 2023, permits in New Glasgow created 202 homes, about 34 a year. 25% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 63% for Nova Scotia’s towns.
A peak in 2019: 56 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
New Glasgow is cheaper than most of Nova Scotia’s towns: 30% under their $250,000 median
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 New Glasgow: Trenton, Stellarton and Westville
Next to New Glasgow: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Glasgow | $174K | $195K | 56% | |
| Trenton | $120K | $129K | 74% | 2.7 |
| Stellarton | $150K | $168K | 62% | 3.7 |
| Westville | $130K | $150K | 72% | 6.6 |
| Pictou County, Subdivision C | $180K | $219K | 88% | 6.6 |
| Pictou County, Subdivision B | $170K | $204K | 85% | 10.1 |
| Pictou | $150K | $165K | 66% | 10.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in New Glasgow
Is New Glasgow expensive for Nova Scotia?
Below the norm for Nova Scotia’s towns, whose median home is worth $250,000; New Glasgow’s is worth less.
How many households in New Glasgow are in core housing need?
8% of New Glasgow’s households, near the 8% of Nova Scotia’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
What is the average house price in New Glasgow?
The average sale was $230,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 1.9 times their income.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
Not here: individual sales sit with provincial registries and aren’t open, so the published figures are town medians and averages.
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).