Rental Vacancy Rate: Spruce Grove and Stony Plain vs Edmonton and Alberta

Share of purpose-built rental units (row houses and apartments, all bedroom types) standing vacant each October since 1990, in Spruce Grove and Stony Plain as CMHC surveys them on their own, beside the Edmonton census metropolitan area and Alberta. Both towns' rentals filled up after 2021: Spruce Grove fell from 2.0% to 0.3% in 2024, and Stony Plain from 6.5% to 0.0% in 2024, before 2.4% in 2025, while the Edmonton area went from 6.9% to 3.8% and Alberta from 6.5% to 4.2%. Both towns had more than 10% vacant in 2015. CMHC suppressed Spruce Grove's 2025 rate, and grades several small-town figures as poor in reliability (Stony Plain's 2024 among them); the grade is served with each figure through the API.