Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Windsor adds housing slowly, at 6.6 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $200,000; averaged, their homes came to $210,000. What homes sold for in Windsor isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $254,200 (market of July 1, 2022).
Windsor’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. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $210K
- Owners
- 1,415
- 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).
Plexes hold 32% of Windsor’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
Windsor’s roll counts its dwellings 50% in single-family houses, 32% in plexes and 17% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
45% of Windsor’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
Windsor had 2,360 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 52% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Windsor | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 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.
The peak came in 2023, when Windsor permitted 30 new homes
Windsor issued permits for 67 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 13 a year. Very few were houses: 18% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
A year with no report is left out.
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.
Windsor is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% 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.
Home values around Windsor
Next to Windsor: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | $200K | $210K | 60% | |
| Val-Joli | $250K | $264K | 87% | 4.3 |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | $250K | $271K | 76% | 5 |
| Saint-Claude | $250K | $284K | 89% | 7.2 |
| Melbourne | $250K | $307K | 94% | 14.3 |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | $376K | $468K | 88% | 14.6 |
| Richmond | $190K | $201K | 52% | 14.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Windsor
How many households in Windsor are in core housing need?
1% of Windsor’s households, near the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Windsor expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Windsor sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).