Photo: busand2003 · CC BY 3.0A median $250,000: what owners say homes in Melbourne are worth
360 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Melbourne included, so owners’ values are the measure. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $363,100, on July 1, 2023 market values.
What Melbourne’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. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $307K
- Owners
- 360
- 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).
Melbourne’s roll values, house to plex
The roll puts Melbourne’s dwellings at 79% in single-family houses and 9% in plexes. It lists 36 chalets as well, at $310,400 in the middle.
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.
A town of houses: 96% of the homes in Melbourne stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
People lived in 425 homes in Melbourne at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Melbourne | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 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.
Melbourne is 17% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 Melbourne: Richmond, Cleveland and Durham-Sud
Next to Melbourne: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | $250K | $307K | 94% | |
| Richmond | $190K | $201K | 52% | 2.7 |
| Cleveland | $200K | $278K | 86% | 5.3 |
| Durham-Sud | $200K | $216K | 74% | 12.3 |
| Windsor | $200K | $210K | 60% | 14.3 |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | $250K | $271K | 76% | 14.3 |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey | $186K | $211K | 84% | 16.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Melbourne
How many households in Melbourne are in core housing need?
under 1% of Melbourne’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 Melbourne expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Melbourne sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $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).