Half the owned homes in Kugluktuk are valued above $234,000

It is the middle of what 80 owner households told the 2021 census. What homes sold for in Kugluktuk isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Nunavut. Assessors valued the median residential property at $54,500 for 2024.

Median home value

$234K

owners’ estimate, census 2021

average $240K

Median assessed value

$55K

all residential, 2024

Owner households

census 2021

20% of households

What homes are worth

Kugluktuk’s homes, by two sources

Two sources, each set against Nunavut’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.

Census 2021$234K

median, owners’ estimate

Average: $240K
Owners: 80
The typical Canadian town: $406K

Assessed, 2024$55K

all residential

Properties: 640

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

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

At the 2021 census, 52% of Kugluktuk’s 400 occupied homes were row houses. At least half predate 2001.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction

Before 19616%

1961–198024%

1981–200038%

2001–201528%

2016–20213%

What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses46%

Semi-detached houses3%

Row houses52%

Apartments, under 5 storeys1%

Against the median Canadian town

	Kugluktuk	Canada
Condominiums	4%	8%
Needing major repairs	26%	6%
Too small for the household	31%	3%
Households in core housing need	35%	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 Kugluktuk

How many households in Kugluktuk are in core housing need?

Above the norm for Canada’s towns (7%): 35% in Kugluktuk, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.

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).