Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain11% of households in Amherst are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $250,000 and an average of $296,000. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Amherst the census value is the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $302,100 (market of July 1, 2023).
What Amherst’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. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $296K
- Owners
- 720
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2023
- 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).
Amherst’s roll values, house to plex
On Amherst’s roll, the dwellings sit 47% in single-family houses, 6% in plexes and 2% in buildings of six units or more. There are 760 chalets on it too, with a median of $377,350.
Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2025 (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.
Single-detached houses are 91% of Amherst’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
People lived in 875 homes in Amherst at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Amherst | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 11% | 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.
Amherst permitted 32.7 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Building permits added 152 homes in Amherst between 2018 and 2023: some 25 a year. Most were houses: 97% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2021: 43 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Amherst is 17% 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Home values around Amherst
The places around Amherst at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst | $250K | $296K | 83% | |
| Brébeuf | $250K | $269K | 70% | 10.5 |
| La Conception | $274K | $348K | 86% | 11.7 |
| Mont-Tremblant | $348K | $455K | 61% | 18.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Amherst
Is Amherst expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Amherst’s is worth less.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292) · 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).