Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners put the median home in Stratford at $250,000
Behind it are the answers of 470 owners at the 2021 census. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Stratford included, so owners’ values are the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2026 roll, put the median house at $385,450 (market of July 1, 2024).
What Stratford’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $283K
- Owners
- 470
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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).
In Stratford, plexes are on the roll at a median $225,450, 45% below Quebec’s towns
Stratford’s roll counts its dwellings 47% in single-family houses and 4% in plexes. It lists 470 chalets as well, at $470,850 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
A town of houses: 93% of the homes in Stratford stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Stratford had 530 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Stratford | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Stratford 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 Stratford: Disraeli, Disraeli and Weedon
Next to Stratford: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
Questions about property prices in Stratford
How many households in Stratford are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 8% in Stratford, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Stratford expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Stratford sits below it.
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).