A median $250,000: what owners say homes in Pangnirtung are worth

Behind it are the answers of 80 owners at the 2021 census. For Pangnirtung there is no published sale price, as for every town in Nunavut. The 2024 property assessment puts the median residential property at $59,700.

Median home value

$250K

owners’ estimate, census 2021

average $240K

Median assessed value

$60K

all residential, 2024

Owner households

census 2021

20% of households

What homes are worth

Pangnirtung’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. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.

Census 2021$250K

median, owners’ estimate

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

Assessed, 2024$60K

all residential

Properties: 490

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

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

At the 2021 census, 51% of Pangnirtung’s 395 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 2001.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction

Before 19614%

1961–198018%

1981–200058%

2001–201519%

2016–20213%

What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses51%

Semi-detached houses18%

Row houses32%

Against the median Canadian town

	Pangnirtung	Canada
Condominiums	3%	8%
Needing major repairs	20%	6%
Too small for the household	41%	3%
Households in core housing need	39%	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 Pangnirtung

How many households in Pangnirtung are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts 39% of Pangnirtung’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 7% of Canada’s towns.

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).