Photo: Jean-Philippe Boulet · CC BY 3.0Austin is adding housing quickly, at 48.5 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
By the 2021 census, half of owned homes were worth more than $400,000; the average was $535,000. What homes sold for in Austin isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $537,300 (market of July 1, 2022).
What Austin’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $535K
- Owners
- 780
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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).
Austin’s plexes have a median roll value of $595,200, 44% over Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Austin’s dwellings on the roll split 52% in single-family houses and 5% in plexes. The roll also counts 654 chalets, at a median $585,650.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
A town of houses: 97% of the homes in Austin stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
People lived in 870 homes in Austin at the 2021 census. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Austin | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 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.
Austin’s busiest year for permits was 2021, with 53 new homes
Some 41 homes a year: 248 in all were permitted in Austin from 2018 to 2023. Most were houses: 90% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
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.
Austin is 33% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Austin: Magog and Stukely-Sud
The places around Austin at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | $400K | $535K | 90% | |
| Eastman | $380K | $430K | 86% | 5.4 |
| Magog | $284K | $346K | 62% | 8.7 |
| Bolton-Est | $380K | $424K | 89% | 9.1 |
| Orford | $400K | $466K | 93% | 9.8 |
| Stukely-Sud | $300K | $342K | 91% | 12.8 |
| Stanstead | $400K | $618K | 88% | 17.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Austin
How many households in Austin are in core housing need?
In Austin, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Austin expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Austin’s is worth more.
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).