Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Owners in Thurso value their homes 33% below the median of Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census gives $200,000 as the median value; Quebec’s towns come to $300,000. For Thurso there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $281,900, on July 1, 2023 market values.
Thurso’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $219K
- Owners
- 915
- 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).
Duplexes to fiveplexes house 25% of Thurso, beside 16% for Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Thurso’s dwellings on the roll split 54% in single-family houses, 25% in plexes, 18% in buildings of six units or more and 2% in condos.
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.
36% of Thurso’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
1,420 occupied homes stood in Thurso in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 52% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Thurso | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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.
20.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Thurso: more than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Over 2018–2023, 155 homes were permitted in Thurso, close to 26 each year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 8% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 91 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 2,917 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 33% fewer
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Ottawa-Gatineau, Québec part metro area
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.
Thurso against Quebec’s towns: 33% under the $300,000 median
510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Home values around Thurso
Next to Thurso: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurso | $200K | $219K | 64% | |
| Lochaber-Partie-Ouest | $400K | $372K | 83% | 6.8 |
| Rockland | $452K | $490K | 82% | 7.7 |
| Plaisance | $226K | $246K | 70% | 10.3 |
| L'Ange-Gardien | $400K | $405K | 93% | 13.5 |
| Vallée-de-la-Lièvre | $250K | $271K | 63% | 14.4 |
| Cumberland | $700K | $779K | 90% | 16.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Thurso
How many households in Thurso are in core housing need?
More than most: 7% of households in Thurso, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Thurso expensive for Quebec?
No: Thurso’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).