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Property prices in Acton Vale · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes in Acton Vale are worth 33% less than the median of Quebec’s towns

Owners valued the median home at $200,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. For Acton Vale there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2026 roll, put the median house at $332,950 (market of July 1, 2024).

Median home value
$200K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $232K
Property roll value
$333K
single-family homes, roll 2026
market at July 1, 2024
Owner households
2,160
census 2021
63% of households
What homes are worth

What Acton Vale’s homes are worth, two ways

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$232K
Owners
2,160
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2026$333K

single-family, market at July 1, 2024

Quebec’s towns
$353K

Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).

The roll by kind

Plexes hold 22% of Acton Vale’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns

The roll puts Acton Vale’s dwellings at 62% in single-family houses, 22% in plexes and 14% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 61 chalets, at a median $125,700.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$340K
Semi-detached and row$291K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$340K
Chalets$126K
Mobile homes$174K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses62%
Plexes22%
Buildings of 6+ units14%
1978
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
9%
of dwellings built since 2016
3,679
dwellings on the roll

Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH): a kind’s median needs 10 units or more; plexes are valued per building; each municipality’s roll has its own market date. The ticks are the median of Québec’s municipalities with their own roll.

The homes

Acton Vale’s homes: when they went up and what they are

3,480 occupied homes stood in Acton Vale in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 61% of them. The older half dates from before 1981.

When they were built

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

Before 196126%
1961–198035%
1981–200028%
2001–20159%
2016–20213%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses61%
Semi-detached houses6%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex7%
Apartments, under 5 storeys22%
Other attached2%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Acton ValeQuebecCanada
Condominiums4%8%8%
Needing major repairs6%6%6%
Too small for the household2%2%3%
Households in core housing need3%3%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.

Across Quebec

Acton Vale is 33% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns

510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Acton Vale’s neighbours by home value

Next to Acton Vale: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

Saint-Théodore-d'ActonRoxton FallsUptonRoxtonWickhamSaint-Valérien-de-MiltonSaint-Théodore-d'ActonRoxton FallsUptonRoxtonWickhamSaint-Valérien-de-MiltonActon Vale
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Acton Vale$200K$232K63%
Saint-Théodore-d'Acton$224K$258K81%6.7
Roxton Falls$200K$235K63%8.5
Upton$250K$260K77%8.9
Roxton$230K$268K84%11.1
Wickham$220K$258K76%14
Saint-Valérien-de-Milton$250K$279K82%14.1

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Acton Vale

Is Acton Vale expensive for Quebec?

On census values, Acton Vale sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).

How many households in Acton Vale are in core housing need?

About as many as elsewhere: 3% of households in Acton Vale, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation, rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026. 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).