Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Half the owned homes in Compton are valued above $250,000
It is the middle of what 940 owner households told the 2021 census. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Compton included, so owners’ values are the measure. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $349,000, valued as of July 1, 2023.
What Compton’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $264K
- Owners
- 940
- 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 17% of Compton’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Compton: 68% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 10% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 28 more entries, valued at a median $103,550.
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.
Compton’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, 78% of Compton’s 1,305 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Compton | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 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.
11.2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Compton: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Some 14 homes a year: 81 in all were permitted in Compton from 2018 to 2023. Houses dominate the permits, at 69% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
A peak in 2020: 19 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
1,847 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, down 26% on the year before
Measured across the Sherbrooke metro area: monthly permits
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.
Compton is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 17% under their $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 Compton: Waterville and Coaticook
Next to Compton: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compton | $250K | $264K | 77% | |
| Waterville | $230K | $252K | 74% | 7.5 |
| Hatley | $400K | $500K | 89% | 10.5 |
| Coaticook | $224K | $242K | 61% | 13.8 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | $400K | $468K | 93% | 15.6 |
| Sherbrooke | $250K | $292K | 50% | 18.3 |
| Ayer's Cliff | $310K | $424K | 81% | 18.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Compton
How many households in Compton are in core housing need?
1% of Compton’s households, under the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Compton expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Compton sits below it.
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).