Photo: Andrew Thomas from Shrewsbury, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0Yarmouth sits 28% below Nova Scotia’s towns on home values
Owners put the median home at $180,000 at the 2021 census; for Nova Scotia’s towns the median is $250,000. In 2023, 275 homes changed hands at a median price of $210,000, by Statistics Canada’s count. On the 2024 assessment, the middle residential property is valued at $157,000.
What Yarmouth’s homes are worth, three ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Nova Scotia’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $212K
- Owners
- 3,835
- Nova Scotia’s towns
- $250K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $220K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 2.1×
- Buyers
- 275
- 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).
Yarmouth’s homes by type: detached houses lead, at 93%
Of Yarmouth’s 5,255 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 93% are detached houses.
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.
12% of Yarmouth’s homes need major repairs, against 9% for Nova Scotia’s towns
Of the 4,430 homes people lived in across Yarmouth at the 2021 census, 92% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Nova Scotia’s towns
Homes by kind
| Yarmouth | Nova Scotia | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 1% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 12% | 9% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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.
Building behind Nova Scotia’s towns: 9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Yarmouth, against 13.5
Over 2018–2023, 229 homes were permitted in Yarmouth, close to 38 each year. Single-unit buildings took 92% of them, where Nova Scotia’s towns built 63%.
The busiest year: 2020, with 49 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.
Yarmouth against Nova Scotia’s towns: 28% under the $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 Yarmouth: Argyle
Next to Yarmouth: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Yarmouth
How many households in Yarmouth are in core housing need?
Fewer than most: 3% of households in Yarmouth, where Nova Scotia’s towns sit at 8%.
Is Yarmouth expensive for Nova Scotia?
Below the norm for Nova Scotia’s towns, whose median home is worth $250,000; Yarmouth’s is worth less.
What is the average house price in Yarmouth?
Buyers paid $220,000 on average in 2023, or 2.1 years of their income at the median.
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).