Photo: Laroutedesvins · CC BY-SA 4.0Dunham’s average home value sits 26% above the median
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $300,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $377,000. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Dunham included, so owners’ values are the measure. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $471,150, at market values of July 1, 2024.
Dunham’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $377K
- Owners
- 1,195
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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).
Dunham’s plexes have a median roll value of $531,500, 29% over Quebec’s towns
Dunham’s roll counts its dwellings 86% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 33 chalets as well, at $209,900 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
90% of Dunham’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
At the 2021 census, Dunham had 1,510 homes with someone living in them. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Dunham | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 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.
Dunham sits near the middle of Quebec’s towns ($300,000)
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 Dunham: Cowansville, Brigham and Bedford
Next to Dunham: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunham | $300K | $377K | 83% | |
| Cowansville | $250K | $294K | 50% | 6.7 |
| Brigham | $250K | $295K | 91% | 10.9 |
| Frelighsburg | $336K | $430K | 84% | 11.6 |
| Sutton | $448K | $494K | 76% | 14.7 |
| Bedford | $250K | $266K | 55% | 15.9 |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | $276K | $294K | 89% | 19 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Dunham
How many households in Dunham are in core housing need?
1% of Dunham’s households, near 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 Dunham expensive for Quebec?
Dunham is close to the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000.
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).