Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainHalf the owned homes in Bedford are valued above $250,000
That figure comes from 665 owner households at the 2021 census. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Bedford. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $316,400, on July 1, 2023 market values.
Two ways to price a home in Bedford
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $266K
- Owners
- 665
- 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).
Plexes hold 31% of Bedford’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Bedford’s dwellings at 44% in single-family houses, 31% in plexes and 24% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
An older stock than most: 44% of Bedford’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
Of the 1,230 homes people lived in across Bedford at the 2021 census, 47% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bedford | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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.
18 new homes a year per 1,000 in Bedford: in step with Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Bedford issued permits for 112 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 19 a year. Single-unit buildings took 41%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 45 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.
Bedford against Quebec’s towns: 17% under 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.
Home values around Bedford
The places around Bedford at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford | $250K | $266K | 55% | |
| Saint-Armand | $300K | $338K | 83% | 10.6 |
| Sainte-Sabine | $300K | $332K | 85% | 13.6 |
| Venise-en-Québec | $300K | $356K | 81% | 14.5 |
| Dunham | $300K | $377K | 83% | 15.9 |
| Saint-Alexandre | $300K | $308K | 86% | 17 |
| Frelighsburg | $336K | $430K | 84% | 17.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Bedford
How many households in Bedford are in core housing need?
7% of Bedford’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Bedford expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Bedford’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).