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Property prices in Mervin No. 499 · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

39% of Mervin No. 499’s homes have been built since 2001, against 14% for Saskatchewan’s towns

In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $348,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $374,000. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Saskatchewan, so nothing here says what Mervin No. 499’s homes actually sold for.

Median home value
$348K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $374K
Median assessed value
$135K
all residential, 2024
Owner households
600
census 2021
93% of households
What homes are worth

Mervin No. 499’s homes, by two sources

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

Census 2021$348K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$374K
Owners
600
Saskatchewan’s towns
$324K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$135K

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

On the roll, 78% of Mervin No. 499’s properties are detached houses

Assessors listed 920 residential properties in Mervin No. 499 for 2024, 78% of them detached houses.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$243K
Mobile homes$153K
Multi-unit properties$303K
The mix of properties
Detached houses78%
Mobile homes14%
Multi-unit properties9%
1,430 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

Single-detached houses are 94% of Mervin No. 499’s homes, against 69% for Saskatchewan’s towns

People lived in 780 homes in Mervin No. 499 at the 2021 census.

When they were built

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

Before 196115%
1961–198026%
1981–200019%
2001–201530%
2016–20218%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses94%
Semi-detached housesunder 1%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplexunder 1%
Apartments, under 5 storeysunder 1%
Movable dwellings5%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Mervin No. 499SaskatchewanCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%10%8%
Needing major repairs8%6%6%
Too small for the household1%4%3%
Households in core housing need14%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.

Across Saskatchewan

Mervin No. 499 against Saskatchewan’s towns: about level with the $324,000 median

The census values of Saskatchewan’s towns, 104 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

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

Cheaper next to Mervin No. 499: Frenchman Butte No. 501, Maidstone and Meadow Lake No. 588

The places around Mervin No. 499 at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. The nearest places to Mervin No. 499 with figures are 39–68 km away.

Frenchman Butte No. 501Meota No. 468MaidstoneMeadow Lake No. 588Meadow LakeFrenchman Butte No. 501Meota No. 468MaidstoneMeadow Lake No. 588Meadow LakeMervin No. 499
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Mervin No. 499$348K$374K93%
Frenchman Butte No. 501$300K$348K93%39
Meota No. 468$400K$450K91%58.5
Maidstone$230K$221K75%62.1
Meadow Lake No. 588$300K$321K93%65.5
Meadow Lake$276K$269K59%67.7

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Mervin No. 499

How many households in Mervin No. 499 are in core housing need?

14% of Mervin No. 499’s households, above the 7% of Saskatchewan’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.

Is Mervin No. 499 expensive for Saskatchewan?

In the middle: Saskatchewan’s towns come to $324,000, and so, near enough, does Mervin No. 499.

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).