Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Orford is adding housing quickly, at 41.9 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
Owners valued the median home at $400,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $465,600. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Orford the census value is the measure. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $566,000, valued as of July 1, 2023.
Orford’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $466K
- Owners
- 2,080
- 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).
Orford’s houses are newer than most: the median dates from 2003 (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
Orford’s roll counts its dwellings 69% in single-family houses, 7% in condos, 5% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 576 chalets, at a median $497,750.
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.
Single-detached houses are 86% of Orford’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 2,240 occupied homes in Orford. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Orford | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 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.
The peak came in 2021, when Orford permitted 113 new homes
Some 87 homes a year: 519 in all were permitted in Orford from 2018 to 2023. 57% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 1,847 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 26% fewer
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. · Monthly permits: one figure for all of the Sherbrooke metro area
Orford is 33% above 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 Orford: Magog, Saint-Denis-de-Brompton and Racine
Next to Orford: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orford | $400K | $466K | 93% | |
| Magog | $284K | $346K | 62% | 7.8 |
| Eastman | $380K | $430K | 86% | 8.3 |
| Austin | $400K | $535K | 90% | 9.8 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | $400K | $468K | 93% | 14.1 |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | $376K | $468K | 88% | 15 |
| Racine | $300K | $428K | 85% | 15.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Orford
How many households in Orford are in core housing need?
1% of Orford’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 Orford expensive for Quebec?
Yes: Orford’s census median is above the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).