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Property prices in Laird No. 404 · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

A newly built town: 36% of the homes in Laird No. 404 date from 2001 or later (Saskatchewan’s towns: 14%)

A median of $360,000 and a mean of $380,000: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Saskatchewan; the census value stands in for Laird No. 404.

Median home value
$360K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $380K
Median assessed value
$215K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
4
permits, 2018–2022
7.7 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
295
census 2021
91% of households
What homes are worth

What Laird No. 404’s homes are worth, two ways

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

Census 2021$360K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$380K
Owners
295
Saskatchewan’s towns
$324K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$215K

all residential

Saskatchewan’s towns
$219K

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

By type of home

Laird No. 404’s homes by type: detached houses lead, at 94%

The 2024 assessment roll counts 435 homes in Laird No. 404, detached houses 94% of them.

Assessed value

Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Saskatchewan’s towns

Detached houses$254K
Multi-unit properties$451K
The mix of properties
Detached houses94%
Multi-unit properties5%
1,660 sq ft
living area of the median detached house (Saskatchewan’s towns: 1,650 sq ft)

Canadian Housing Statistics Program, table 46-10-0093 (2024): residential properties on the assessment roll, vacant land left out. The ticks are the median of Saskatchewan’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.

The homes

99% of Laird No. 404’s homes are detached houses, where Saskatchewan’s towns have 69%

People lived in 390 homes in Laird No. 404 at the 2021 census.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Saskatchewan’s towns

Before 196123%
1961–198027%
1981–200014%
2001–201528%
2016–20218%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses99%
Semi-detached housesunder 1%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplexunder 1%
Apartments, under 5 storeysunder 1%
Movable dwellings3%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Laird No. 404SaskatchewanCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%10%8%
Needing major repairs6%6%6%
Too small for the household5%4%3%
Households in core housing needunder 1%7%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.

New homes

Building ahead of Saskatchewan’s towns: 7.7 new homes a year per 1,000 in Laird No. 404, against 3.8

Laird No. 404 issued permits for 17 new homes from 2018 to 2022, or about 4 a year. Most were houses: 100% went into single-unit buildings, against 81% for Saskatchewan’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2022

The busiest year: 2018, with 8 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
024682018201920202022

A year with no report is left out.

The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Laird No. 4047.7
Saskatchewan’s towns3.8
The typical Canadian town13.8
$1.5M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2022

Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.

Across Saskatchewan

Laird No. 404 against Saskatchewan’s towns: 11% over the $324,000 median

104 of Saskatchewan’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Laird No. 404: Waldheim and Dalmeny

The places around Laird No. 404 at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.

WaldheimRosthern No. 403DalmenyWaldheimRosthern No. 403DalmenyLaird No. 404
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Laird No. 404$360K$380K91%
Waldheim$290K$299K83%14
Rosthern No. 403$400K$404K89%17
Dalmeny$332K$332K90%19

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Laird No. 404

How many households in Laird No. 404 are in core housing need?

In Laird No. 404, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 7% for Saskatchewan’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.

Is Laird No. 404 expensive for Saskatchewan?

Yes: Laird No. 404’s census median is above the $324,000 of Saskatchewan’s towns.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292). 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).