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Property prices in Hinchinbrooke · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

For every 1,000 homes, Hinchinbrooke permitted only 2.9 new ones a year; Quebec’s towns permitted 15.1

Owners valued the median home at $200,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $246,400. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Hinchinbrooke included, so owners’ values are the measure. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $257,400; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.

Median home value
$200K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $246K
Property roll value
$257K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
New homes a year
3
permits, 2018–2023
2.9 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
800
census 2021
83% of households
What homes are worth

Hinchinbrooke’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. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$246K
Owners
800
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$257K

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).

The roll by kind

The median house in Hinchinbrooke was built in 1968, against 1981 for Quebec’s towns

Hinchinbrooke’s roll counts its dwellings 71% in single-family houses, 7% in plexes and 2% in buildings of six units or more. There are 141 chalets on it too, with a median of $130,000.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$257K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$339K
Chalets$130K
Mobile homes$113K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses71%
Plexes7%
Buildings of 6+ units2%
1968
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
2%
of dwellings built since 2016
1,012
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

Single-detached houses are 93% of Hinchinbrooke’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns

The 2021 census counted 1,025 occupied homes in Hinchinbrooke. Half went up before 1981.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 196144%
1961–198038%
1981–200014%
2001–20153%
2016–20212%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses93%
Semi-detached houses2%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys2%
Movable dwellings3%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
HinchinbrookeQuebecCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%8%8%
Needing major repairs13%6%6%
Too small for the household1%2%3%
Households in core housing need4%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.

New homes

The peak came in 2020, when Hinchinbrooke permitted 6 new homes

Building permits added 19 homes in Hinchinbrooke between 2018 and 2023: some 3 a year. 60% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023
Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
0246201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Hinchinbrooke2.9
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$707K
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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.

Across Quebec

Hinchinbrooke is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% under their $300,000 median

510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Hinchinbrooke: Huntingdon

Next to Hinchinbrooke: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

HuntingdonGodmanchesterOrmstownFranklinHuntingdonGodmanchesterOrmstownFranklinHinchinbrooke
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Hinchinbrooke$200K$246K83%
Huntingdon$184K$198K55%9.3
Godmanchester$250K$272K78%11.7
Ormstown$250K$282K70%14.4
Franklin$300K$317K83%16.3

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Hinchinbrooke

Is Hinchinbrooke expensive for Quebec?

No: Hinchinbrooke’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.

How many households in Hinchinbrooke are in core housing need?

In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 4% in Hinchinbrooke, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.

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).