Photo: sfbnurse https://www.flickr.com/people/sfbnurse/ · CC BY 2.0Owners put the median home in Fort Simpson at $260,000
Behind it are the answers of 230 owners at the 2021 census. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. For Fort Simpson there is no published sale price, as for every town in the Northwest Territories.
Fort Simpson’s homes, by the census
The census is the only published value for these homes; beside it, the median of Northwest Territories’ towns.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $296K
- Owners
- 230
- 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).
Fort Simpson’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Fort Simpson had 450 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 68% of them single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction
Homes by kind
| Fort Simpson | Canada | |
|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 24% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 13% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 18% | 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.
Fort Simpson permitted 10.6 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 13.8 of Canada’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 35 homes were permitted in Fort Simpson, close to 7 each year. 58% were single-unit buildings, beside 54% for Canada’s towns.
Most in 2018: 16 new homes
A year with no report is left out.
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.
Questions about property prices in Fort Simpson
How many households in Fort Simpson are in core housing need?
18% of Fort Simpson’s households, above the 7% of Canada’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).