Photo: Groupe de recherche en art du Québec · CC BY-SA 4.0A few dear homes lift Stanstead’s average value 55% above its median
A median of $400,000 and a mean of $618,000: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. For Stanstead there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $561,100 (market of July 1, 2022).
What Stanstead’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $618K
- Owners
- 485
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Stanstead at $820,450, 99% more than across Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Stanstead’s dwellings on the roll split 48% in single-family houses and 5% in plexes. It lists 442 chalets as well, at $693,550 in the middle.
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.
98% of Stanstead’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
The 2021 census counted 550 occupied homes in Stanstead. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Stanstead | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 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.
Stanstead against Quebec’s towns: 33% over 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 Stanstead: Ayer's Cliff, Stanstead and Magog
Next to Stanstead: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanstead | $400K | $618K | 88% | |
| Ayer's Cliff | $310K | $424K | 81% | 10.6 |
| Stanstead | $200K | $224K | 69% | 13.6 |
| Magog | $284K | $346K | 62% | 15.8 |
| Bolton-Est | $380K | $424K | 89% | 16.5 |
| Austin | $400K | $535K | 90% | 17.7 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | $400K | $468K | 93% | 17.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Stanstead
How many households in Stanstead are in core housing need?
In Stanstead, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Stanstead expensive for Quebec?
Yes: Stanstead’s census median is above the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).