The middle home in Cambridge Bay is valued at $400,000

It is the middle of what 130 owner households told the 2021 census. There is no public record of sale prices in Nunavut, which leaves the census value as the guide for Cambridge Bay. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $89,700.

Median home value

$400K

owners’ estimate, census 2021

average $385K

Median assessed value

$90K

all residential, 2024

Owner households

130

census 2021

24% of households

What homes are worth

Two ways to price a home in Cambridge Bay

Two sources, each set against Nunavut’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.

Census 2021$400K

median, owners’ estimate

Average: $385K
Owners: 130
The typical Canadian town: $406K

Assessed, 2024$90K

all residential

Properties: 635

Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).

The homes

Cambridge Bay’s homes: when they went up and what they are

Cambridge Bay had 570 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 43% of them single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction

Before 19613%

1961–198025%

1981–200040%

2001–201518%

2016–202114%

What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses43%

Semi-detached houses9%

Row houses35%

Flats in a duplex1%

Apartments, under 5 storeys13%

Against the median Canadian town

	Cambridge Bay	Canada
Condominiums	6%	8%
Needing major repairs	21%	6%
Too small for the household	29%	3%
Households in core housing need	26%	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.

Questions about property prices in Cambridge Bay

How many households in Cambridge Bay are in core housing need?

More than most: 26% of households in Cambridge Bay, where Canada’s towns sit at 7%.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program. 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).