Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Half the owned homes in Ormstown are valued above $250,000
Some 1,130 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Ormstown the census value is the measure. The municipal roll for 2024 values single-family homes at a median $319,450, at July 1, 2022 prices.
Two ways to price a home in Ormstown
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $282K
- Owners
- 1,130
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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).
Ormstown’s houses are older than most: the median dates from 1972 (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
By kind of building, Ormstown’s dwellings on the roll split 65% in single-family houses, 21% in plexes and 11% in buildings of six units or more.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
Before 1961: 40% of the homes in Ormstown, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
Of the 1,710 homes people lived in across Ormstown at the 2021 census, 76% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Ormstown | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Permits in Ormstown ran at 24.6 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Building permits added 245 homes in Ormstown between 2018 and 2023: some 41 a year. About 32% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2021, with 70 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.
Ormstown against Quebec’s towns: 17% under the $300,000 median
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Ormstown: Huntingdon and Hinchinbrooke
Next to Ormstown: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ormstown | $250K | $282K | 70% | |
| Franklin | $300K | $317K | 83% | 9.3 |
| Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague | $300K | $332K | 69% | 11.7 |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | $300K | $345K | 86% | 13.4 |
| Huntingdon | $184K | $198K | 55% | 13.9 |
| Hinchinbrooke | $200K | $246K | 83% | 14.4 |
| Très-Saint-Sacrement | $324K | $396K | 84% | 15.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Ormstown
How many households in Ormstown are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 2% in Ormstown, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Ormstown expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Ormstown’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).