Faro

Faro, Yukon

Market snapshot

As of November 11, 2026, the median asking price in Faro is $249,000, across 10 active public listings.

Those listings have been on the market an average of 148 days.

Asking prices work out to about $127 per square foot, based on the 9 listings that report floor area.

Detached homes in Faro are listed at an average of $282,500 across 6 active listings.

About Faro

A wide municipal area with varied settlement pockets

Faro is a spread-out Yukon municipal area where location inside the boundary matters.

Across 210 km², Faro is defined by scale and variation: what feels convenient, remote, or central depends on where a specific property sits within the mapped footprint. The appeal is room for different kinds of living within one municipal boundary; it is not a single, uniform place where one set of amenities or one “main” node characterizes every address.

Why Faro

Wide-area living

Faro covers a large 210 km² census-mapped municipal footprint, creating a bigger range of settings within one community than a compact footprint typically can.

Multiple settlement pockets

The mapped area explicitly includes rural areas and separate settlements within the municipality, which can appeal to buyers who want options that don’t all feel the same.

Yukon setting

Being in Yukon is part of the choice: the area is considered as a place to live within the territory rather than as an area of a larger nearby centre in the provided context.

Living in Faro

A verified housing mix is not provided in the supplied context for Faro’s 2021 municipal footprint. Property-by-property differences can be more consequential than a single “typical” built form across the area.

Day to day

Weekends in Faro tend to be planned around where a home sits within the municipal boundary, since different parts of the 210 km² area can have different practical access to day-to-day destinations. The most consistent theme is that activities and errands are more address-specific than they would be in a compact, centralized place.

Is Faro right for you?

May be a strong fit if you want

May be less suited if you prioritize

Buying in Faro

In Faro, look past the asking price at where the property sits within the 210 km² municipal footprint and what that implies for practical access. The key due diligence is confirming which nearby services and institutions are genuinely convenient for that specific address.

What to look at

Exact location

Because Faro covers a large mapped area, confirm the property’s position within the municipal boundary and how that aligns with your day-to-day routes and needs.

School proximity

Del Van Gorder School is one named school option nearby in the available context; verify how practical it is from the specific property rather than assuming all of Faro shares the same access.

Amenity assumptions

Avoid treating any single site as representative of the whole area. Confirm the nearest groceries, services, and community facilities for the specific location you are considering.

Selling in Faro

Selling in Faro is about making the property’s specifics easy to understand at a glance, because homes across the area can differ meaningfully from one another. Marketing that clearly shows what the home includes, how it functions day-to-day, and what is nearby within the broader municipal footprint helps buyers compare confidently without overgeneralizing the whole area.

What the marketing has to address

Property specifics

Spell out what is included with the home and what is not, and present the key features clearly so buyers can compare it to other distinctive options in Faro.

Everyday proximity

Reference nearby amenities carefully: if you mention Del Van Gorder School, present it as one nearby option rather than implying it represents or serves all addresses across Faro’s 210 km² area.

Clarity on setting

Use photos and mapping that show where the home sits within Faro’s municipal footprint, since the census-mapped area includes rural areas and separate settlements within the municipality.

Boundary context

Note that the page’s statistics and mapping use the 2021 Statistics Canada municipal footprint, and that current municipal limits may differ from this dated cartographic boundary.

The bottom line

Faro is a census-mapped municipal area in Yukon with a large footprint—about 210 km²—that can include rural areas and separate settlements within the municipality. That scale can be a real draw for buyers who want to evaluate a property on its own merits rather than assume a uniform, block-by-block pattern of amenities. It is not the right fit if you want a place where one set of nearby services describes the whole area, because no single school or amenity can stand in for all of Faro.

This description is compiled from the figures above and from published sources. It is not a statistic.

Market pulse

Faro’s current for-sale market is small and fairly spread out across the city’s different pockets, with 10 active listings ranging from modest homes to larger detached properties; the median asking price is $249,000 and the average ask works out to about $127 per square foot. With listings averaging 148 days on market so far, pricing appears sensitive and buyers may have room to negotiate, while investors should expect limited inventory and potentially longer holding periods before securing the right fit.

AI-written commentary on the active public listing snapshot as of November 11, 2026. Not financial advice.

Getting around

Faro covers about 210 km², so a single Walkability, Transit access or Bikeability score measured at one point would not describe it. How easily you can get around depends on which part of Faro you are in — check the score for a specific address.

Schools nearby

Places from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), with OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) filling categories it does not cover. Source edition: 2026-08-19.0. Retrieved November 1, 2026 (UTC). Data may be incomplete or outdated. Retrieval does not verify current opening hours or availability.

Being near a school does not establish enrolment eligibility. Confirm the exact address, school year and program with the local school board.

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