A median $200,000: what owners say homes in Kugaaruk are worth

It is the middle of what 20 owner households told the 2021 census. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. What homes sold for in Kugaaruk isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Nunavut.

Median home value

$200K

owners’ estimate, census 2021

average $180K

Median assessed value

$80K

all residential, 2024

Owner households

census 2021

9% of households

What homes are worth

Kugaaruk’s homes, by two sources

Each source sits beside its own median for Nunavut’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average: $180K
Owners: 20
The typical Canadian town: $406K

Assessed, 2024$80K

all residential

Properties: 230

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

Kugaaruk’s homes: when they went up and what they are

Kugaaruk had 215 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 47% of them row houses. At least half predate 2001.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction

Before 19615%

1961–198028%

1981–200037%

2001–201516%

2016–202114%

What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses42%

Semi-detached houses12%

Row houses47%

Against the median Canadian town

	Kugaaruk	Canada
Condominiums	47%	8%
Needing major repairs	19%	6%
Too small for the household	49%	3%
Households in core housing need	43%	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 Kugaaruk

How many households in Kugaaruk are in core housing need?

43% of Kugaaruk’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, 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).