Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ripon adds housing slowly, at 3.8 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
The middle home was worth $250,000 at the 2021 census, the average $281,500. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Ripon included, so owners’ values are the measure. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $265,400, on July 1, 2023 market values.
What Ripon’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $282K
- Owners
- 655
- 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).
Ripon on the property roll, kind by kind
Ripon’s roll counts its dwellings 64% in single-family houses, 9% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 217 chalets as well, at $242,000 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.
Single-detached houses are 91% of Ripon’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
At the 2021 census, Ripon had 795 homes with someone living in them. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Ripon | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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 Ripon peaked in 2019: 5 new homes
Ripon issued permits for 14 new homes from 2018 to 2022, or about 3 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 83% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
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.
Ripon 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 Ripon: Saint-André-Avellin, Montpellier and Plaisance
The places around Ripon at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripon | $250K | $282K | 84% | |
| Saint-André-Avellin | $226K | $254K | 72% | 7.2 |
| Montpellier | $200K | $236K | 82% | 10 |
| Lac-Simon | $348K | $390K | 85% | 14.1 |
| Plaisance | $226K | $246K | 70% | 18 |
| Papineauville | $200K | $263K | 68% | 18.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Ripon
How many households in Ripon are in core housing need?
9% of Ripon’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Ripon expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Ripon’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).