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Property prices in Racine · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Racine’s average home value sits 43% above the median

Owners valued the median home at $300,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $428,000. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Racine. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $383,450, valued as of July 1, 2022.

Median home value
$300K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $428K
Property roll value
$383K
single-family homes, roll 2024
market at July 1, 2022
Owner households
480
census 2021
85% of households
What homes are worth

Two ways to price a home in Racine

Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.

Census 2021$300K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$428K
Owners
480
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2024$383K

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).

The roll by kind

Racine’s roll values, house to plex

By kind of building, Racine’s dwellings on the roll split 70% in single-family houses, 9% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 116 more entries, valued at a median $646,150.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$383K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$507K
Chalets$646K
Mobile homes$135K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses70%
Plexes9%
Buildings of 6+ units3%
1985
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
13%
of dwellings built since 2016
738
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

89% of Racine’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%

The 2021 census counted 585 occupied homes in Racine. At least half predate 1981.

When they were built

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

Before 196123%
1961–198028%
1981–200028%
2001–201516%
2016–20214%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses89%
Semi-detached houses1%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex4%
Apartments, under 5 storeys5%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
RacineQuebecCanada
Condominiums3%8%8%
Needing major repairs9%6%6%
Too small for the household2%2%3%
Households in core housing needunder 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.

Across Quebec

Racine against Quebec’s towns: about level with the $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 Racine: Valcourt, Valcourt and Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton

The places around Racine at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.

ValcourtSaint-Denis-de-BromptonValcourtOrfordSaint-François-Xavier-de-BromptonEastmanValcourtSaint-Denis-de-BromptonValcourtOrfordSaint-François-Xavier-de-BromptonEastmanRacine
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Racine$300K$428K85%
Valcourt$200K$221K53%7.9
Saint-Denis-de-Brompton$376K$468K88%9.9
Valcourt$210K$251K87%10.4
Orford$400K$466K93%15.2
Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton$250K$271K76%15.7
Eastman$380K$430K86%17.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Racine

How many households in Racine are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts under 1% of Racine’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.

Is Racine expensive for Quebec?

On census values, Racine sits mid-table among 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).