Photo: Krisco75 · CC BY-SA 3.0Expensive homes pull Ayer's Cliff’s average 37% above the middle
A median of $310,000 and a mean of $424,000: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Ayer's Cliff. Québec’s 2025 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $391,500, at market values of July 1, 2023.
What Ayer's Cliff’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $424K
- Owners
- 460
- 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).
Ayer's Cliff’s roll values, house to plex
Ayer's Cliff’s roll counts its dwellings 58% in single-family houses, 13% in plexes, 10% in condos and 3% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 107 chalets, at a median $659,900.
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.
46% of Ayer's Cliff’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
Ayer's Cliff had 570 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 76% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Ayer's Cliff | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 12% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 13.3 new homes a year per 1,000 in Ayer's Cliff, against 15.1
Ayer's Cliff issued permits for 44 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 7 a year. 68% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2021: 17 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.
Ayer's Cliff against Quebec’s towns: about level with the $300,000 median
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.
Lower values near Ayer's Cliff: Magog, Compton and Waterville
The places around Ayer's Cliff at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayer's Cliff | $310K | $424K | 81% | |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | $400K | $468K | 93% | 9.3 |
| Stanstead | $400K | $618K | 88% | 10.6 |
| Magog | $284K | $346K | 62% | 12.9 |
| Compton | $250K | $264K | 77% | 18.4 |
| Waterville | $230K | $252K | 74% | 18.8 |
| Stanstead | $200K | $224K | 69% | 19.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Ayer's Cliff
How many households in Ayer's Cliff are in core housing need?
In Ayer's Cliff, 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 Ayer's Cliff expensive for Quebec?
About average: Ayer's Cliff’s census median is close to the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).