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Property prices in Moosomin · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes in Moosomin are worth 23% less than the median of Saskatchewan’s towns

In figures: $250,000 for the median home in 2021, $324,000 for the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. What homes sold for in Moosomin isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Saskatchewan.

Median home value
$250K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $268K
Median assessed value
$219K
all residential, 2024
New homes a year
2
permits, 2018–2023
2 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
800
census 2021
72% of households
What homes are worth

Moosomin’s homes, by two sources

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Saskatchewan’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.

Census 2021$250K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$268K
Owners
800
Saskatchewan’s towns
$324K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Assessed, 2024$219K

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

Detached houses make up 90% of Moosomin’s residential properties

Of Moosomin’s 1,000 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 90% are detached houses.

Assessed value

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

Detached houses$238K
Row houses$187K
Mobile homes$102K
Multi-unit properties$330K
The mix of properties
Detached houses90%
Multi-unit properties4%
Mobile homes4%
Row houses2%
1,560 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

How Moosomin’s homes break down, by age and kind

Moosomin had 1,100 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 73% of them single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.

When they were built

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

Before 196121%
1961–198045%
1981–200017%
2001–201516%
2016–20213%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses73%
Semi-detached houses6%
Row houses5%
Flats in a duplexunder 1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys13%
Other attached1%
Movable dwellings2%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
MoosominSaskatchewanCanada
Condominiums9%10%8%
Needing major repairs6%6%6%
Too small for the household4%4%3%
Households in core housing need2%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 behind Saskatchewan’s towns: 2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Moosomin, against 3.8

From 2018 to 2023, permits in Moosomin created 11 homes, about 2 a year. Single-unit buildings took 73% of them, where Saskatchewan’s towns built 81%.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

Most in 2020: 7 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
02468201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Moosomin2
Saskatchewan’s towns3.8
The typical Canadian town13.8
$761K
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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

Moosomin against Saskatchewan’s towns: 23% under 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 Moosomin: Prairie View, Redvers and Esterhazy

Next to Moosomin: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Distances here run 54–64 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Moosomin.

Prairie ViewWallace-WoodworthVirdenRedversEsterhazyPrairie ViewWallace-WoodworthVirdenRedversEsterhazyMoosomin
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Moosomin$250K$268K72%
Prairie View$150K$182K80%54.2
Wallace-Woodworth$250K$274K89%59.7
Virden$250K$258K71%61.5
Redvers$200K$218K72%63.3
Esterhazy$224K$240K79%64.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Moosomin

How many households in Moosomin are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts 2% of Moosomin’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 7% of Saskatchewan’s towns.

Is Moosomin expensive for Saskatchewan?

On census values, Moosomin sits among the cheaper of Saskatchewan’s towns (median $324,000).

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).