Photo: Genvievegarneau2 · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners put the median home in Sherbrooke at $250,000
It is the middle of what 39,835 owner households told the 2021 census. For Sherbrooke there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $368,900; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
What Sherbrooke’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. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $292K
- Owners
- 39,835
- 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).
Plexes hold 20% of Sherbrooke’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Sherbrooke: 39% in single-family houses, 37% in buildings of six units or more, 20% in plexes and 3% in condos. There are 85 chalets on it too, with a median of $616,900.
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.
Apartments are 49% of Sherbrooke’s homes, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 80,475 occupied homes in Sherbrooke. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sherbrooke | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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.
Sherbrooke permitted 19.9 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Sherbrooke created 9,281 homes, about 1,547 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 10% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns. Sherbrooke shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Sherbrooke metro area.
Most in 2021: 2,349 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Down 26%: 1,847 new homes in the year to August 2026
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.
Sherbrooke is 17% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 Sherbrooke: Waterville
Next to Sherbrooke: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherbrooke | $250K | $292K | 50% | |
| Hatley | $400K | $500K | 89% | 8.2 |
| Waterville | $230K | $252K | 74% | 11 |
| Ascot Corner | $300K | $319K | 83% | 12.1 |
| Stoke | $300K | $313K | 87% | 12.2 |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | $376K | $468K | 88% | 15.1 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | $400K | $468K | 93% | 17.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sherbrooke
How many households in Sherbrooke are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 4% of Sherbrooke’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
Is Sherbrooke expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Sherbrooke’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).