Photo: art_inthecity from Montréal, CA · CC BY 2.0Half the owned homes in Granby are valued above $270,000
The census of 2021 asked 17,230 owner households what their home was worth. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Granby. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $399,000; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
What Granby’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $297K
- Owners
- 17,230
- 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).
18% of Granby’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%
Granby’s roll counts its dwellings 43% in single-family houses, 32% in buildings of six units or more, 18% in plexes and 5% in condos.
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.
Apartments are 42% of Granby’s homes, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 31,850 occupied homes in Granby. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Granby | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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: 18.7 new homes a year per 1,000 in Granby, against 15.1
Building permits added 3,389 homes in Granby between 2018 and 2023: some 565 a year. Only 12% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2021: 809 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.
Granby is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 10% under their $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 Granby: Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton
Next to Granby: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granby | $270K | $297K | 54% | |
| Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton | $250K | $279K | 86% | 9.1 |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | $276K | $294K | 89% | 9.3 |
| Roxton Pond | $260K | $311K | 82% | 9.6 |
| Shefford | $348K | $416K | 92% | 9.7 |
| Bromont | $448K | $537K | 76% | 11.9 |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford | $290K | $309K | 83% | 12.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Granby
How many households in Granby are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 4% in Granby, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Granby expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Granby’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).