Photo: Chicoutimi · CC BY-SA 3.0Stanstead’s housing is older than most: 64% dates from before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $200,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $224,400. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Stanstead included, so owners’ values are the measure. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $218,600, at July 1, 2023 prices.
Two ways to price a home in Stanstead
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
- $224K
- Owners
- 865
- 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).
The median house in Stanstead was built in 1949, against 1981 for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Stanstead: 60% in single-family houses, 25% in plexes and 13% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
More homes in poor repair than most: 11% in Stanstead (Quebec’s towns: 6%)
At the 2021 census, 65% of Stanstead’s 1,275 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Stanstead | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 11% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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 permitted 9.6 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Stanstead created 67 homes, about 11 a year. About 43% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2022, with 38 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.
Stanstead is 33% 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.
Home values around Stanstead
Next to Stanstead: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanstead | $200K | $224K | 69% | |
| Stanstead | $400K | $618K | 88% | 13.6 |
| Ayer's Cliff | $310K | $424K | 81% | 19.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Stanstead
How many households in Stanstead are in core housing need?
More than most: 6% of households in Stanstead, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Stanstead expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Stanstead sits below it.
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).