How AcreScout counts land for sale
AcreScout tracks 44,400 land and acreage listings for sale across Canada, in 190 regions, as of November 15, 2026. Here is where they come from, what we check before a listing counts, and how the figures on our pages are worked out.
Download land prices by region, November 15, 2026 (CSV)
Where the listings come from
Asking prices, sizes and locations come from public ads. Kijiji carries REALTOR® listings shared through CREA as well as private sellers' ads. Every listing links to its original ad; we don't copy descriptions or photos.
- Kijiji: 32,394 listings
- Centris: 9,217 listings
- Zillow: 2,789 listings
What counts as a listing
- An asking price on a public ad, not a sale price.
- Land you can own outright. Ads to rent land are left out, and one that may be a leasehold or a part share is flagged in its details.
- Land and acreage, with or without a home. Figures for land are bare land only; lots with a home are counted apart.
- New Kijiji ads are read five times a day, and Kijiji and Centris in full once a day; Zillow listings are rechecked a few hundred at a time. An ad found taken down leaves at the next update.
What we check before a listing counts
- Size. We take the lot size the site gives or the one the ad states. When they disagree, we keep the one that fits what land of that size is listed for nearby, then the one the ad opens with. An ad that states no size we can read shows as “size not stated”. A listing whose size we can't settle isn't shown. Neither ever enters a price-per-acre figure.
- Place. Each map pin is checked against its postal code, its address and the places the title names, and moved when they show it's wrong. A pin we can only place at a town is marked as approximate.
- Duplicates. The same land posted on two sites, or twice on one, is one listing: the same price, a size within 1% and pins within 500 m, with no lot or civic number that differs.
- Parcel outlines. Drawn only where the ad names the parcel (its PID, lot and plan, or quarter section), its civic address matches an open parcel map, or its map pin sits on one (shown as a possible parcel): in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Yukon and parts of Ontario and Quebec. Alberta gets survey units, drawn dotted, not property lines.
- Water. Ocean, lake or river frontage comes from what the ad says about the land itself; a water word in a street or place name doesn't count. A creek through the land is counted apart.
- History. We keep each listing's listed date and every price change. An ad taken down and posted again keeps its history and is marked relisted.
Regions
A listing's region is the county or census division of the municipality its pin is in; in British Columbia the regional district, in Quebec the administrative region, and in Manitoba the area around the nearest town of 5,000 or more. A division with no proper name is named after its largest place (Wetaskiwin area).
How the figures are worked out
- Price per acre is the asking price divided by the acres.
- Typical means the median: half the listings are above it and half below.
- Figures for a province or region use bare land (no home) of 10 acres or more. On lot-size tables, lots under 1 acre at $1,000,000 an acre or more are city lots and are left out.
- A figure needs 5 listings or more.
The figures, to download
Median asking price per acre of bare land of 10 acres or more, with waterfront land apart, for Canada, each province and each region, as of November 15, 2026. Quote it with a link to this page.
| Province | Listings | Bare land, 10+ ac | Per acre | Waterfront | Waterfront per acre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 44,400 | 6,063 | $10,474/ac | 1,000 | $9,300/ac |
| Alberta | 4,225 | 606 | $14,988/ac | 37 | $17,649/ac |
| British Columbia | 6,830 | 705 | $28,062/ac | 104 | $21,012/ac |
| Manitoba | 1,115 | 152 | $4,570/ac | 4 | – |
| New Brunswick | 2,773 | 473 | $2,688/ac | 74 | $5,148/ac |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 1,085 | 90 | $12,211/ac | 23 | $8,099/ac |
| Nova Scotia | 4,159 | 825 | $3,540/ac | 235 | $5,682/ac |
| Ontario | 9,952 | 1,840 | $15,475/ac | 227 | $12,623/ac |
| Prince Edward Island | 1,418 | 177 | $4,878/ac | 31 | $7,996/ac |
| Quebec | 11,112 | 948 | $12,651/ac | 242 | $11,875/ac |
| Saskatchewan | 1,702 | 245 | $5,719/ac | 22 | $12,672/ac |
| Territories | 29 | 2 | – | 1 | – |
Bare land, no home. Waterfront: ocean, lake or river frontage. A dash: fewer than 5 listings. The download has every region.
Download land prices by region, November 15, 2026 (CSV)
Rural land price per acre by province and region: the quarterly table to cite
Limits
- Asking prices are what sellers ask, not what land sells for.
- Listings that appear only on other sites aren't here.
- Water and the problems an ad mentions are read from its words, and an ad can be wrong or vague.
- Map pins and parcel outlines are approximate. The deed and a survey govern.
Spot a listing that's wrong or gone? Send its link to support@acrescout.ca and we'll fix it or take it down.
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