Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0A few dear homes lift Bristol’s average value 36% above its median
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $230,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $312,000. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices. For Bristol there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Québec’s 2024 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $213,800, at market values of July 1, 2022.
Two ways to price a home in Bristol
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $312K
- Owners
- 475
- 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).
Built in 1965: the median house in Bristol, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
Bristol’s roll counts its dwellings 35% in single-family houses and 1% in plexes. The roll also counts 550 chalets, at a median $229,600.
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: 98% of the homes in Bristol stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
At the 2021 census, Bristol had 530 homes with someone living in them. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bristol | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 16% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Bristol against Quebec’s towns: 23% under the $300,000 median
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 Bristol: Shawville
The places around Bristol at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Bristol
How many households in Bristol are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 7% in Bristol, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Bristol expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Bristol sits below it.
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).