Housing starts and sales

  • Housing starts – Includes urban (population of + 10,000) construction of units.
  • Home Sales – Provides Multiple Listing Service (MLS) total home sales by province and Alberta municipality.
  • Housing market notes – Includes key indicators and quarterly data from the Canadian Real Estate Association, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Statistics Canada.

Housing costs and programs

  • Apartment vacancy and rental cost survey – Provides data and findings from the annual survey of multi-family dwellings in Alberta's rural communities, conducted by Alberta between the months of May and August each year.
  • Average rent by municipality – Includes residential rental rates by municipality, year, and type of unit (bachelor suites, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units) in non-subsidized rental buildings that have 3 or more rental units.
  • Shelter usage in Alberta – Includes data submitted daily by shelter operators to track capacity and utilization.
  • Income thresholds – Includes information for various housing programs in Alberta.

Census highlights for housing

Government of Canada

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Contact

General OSI enquiries

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Phone: 780-427-2071
Toll free: 310-0000 before the phone number (in Alberta)
Fax: 780-426-3951
Email: [email protected]

Media enquiries

Contact the Treasury Board and Finance Spokesperson.