Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D. · CC BY-SA 3.0Half the owned homes in Tuktoyaktuk are valued above $180,000
The census of 2021 asked 85 owner households what their home was worth. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. What homes sold for in Tuktoyaktuk isn’t public: no sale figures are released in the Northwest Territories.
One measure for Tuktoyaktuk: the census
No sale or assessment figure is published here, so the census value stands alone, beside the median of Northwest Territories’ towns.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $204K
- Owners
- 85
- 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).
Tuktoyaktuk’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Of the 285 homes people lived in across Tuktoyaktuk at the 2021 census, 54% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction
Homes by kind
| Tuktoyaktuk | Canada | |
|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 32% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 26% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 32% | 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.
Home values around Tuktoyaktuk
The places around Tuktoyaktuk at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. No closer place has figures: this one lies 124 km from Tuktoyaktuk.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuktoyaktuk | $180K | $204K | 28% | |
| Inuvik | $300K | $322K | 34% | 123.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Tuktoyaktuk
How many households in Tuktoyaktuk are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 32% of Tuktoyaktuk’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 7% of Canada’s towns.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021. 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).