Photo: Robert Garry · CC BY-SA 4.0Thetford Mines sits 50% below Quebec’s towns on home values
In figures: $150,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Thetford Mines included, so owners’ values are the measure. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $184,000; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
Thetford Mines’s homes, by two sources
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
- $162K
- Owners
- 8,100
- 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 roll values plexes in Thetford Mines at $166,900, 60% less than across Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Thetford Mines’s dwellings at 60% in single-family houses, 24% in plexes, 13% in buildings of six units or more and 1% in condos. There are 92 chalets on it too, with a median of $103,500.
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.
An older stock than most: 40% of Thetford Mines’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
12,220 occupied homes stood in Thetford Mines in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 63% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Thetford Mines | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
7.7 new homes a year per 1,000 in Thetford Mines: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Thetford Mines issued permits for 604 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 101 a year. About 24% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2021: 151 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.
Thetford Mines is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 50% under their $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.
Thetford Mines’s neighbours by home value
The places around Thetford Mines at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thetford Mines | $150K | $162K | 66% | |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine | $150K | $214K | 79% | 15.3 |
| Adstock | $200K | $254K | 84% | 16.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Thetford Mines
Is Thetford Mines expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Thetford Mines sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Thetford Mines are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Thetford Mines’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
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).