Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainA median $150,000: what owners say homes in Saint-Jacques are worth
655 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. Sales are published too: 55 buyers in 2023, at a median $189,000. Assessors valued the median residential property at $85,600 for 2024.
Saint-Jacques’s homes, by three sources
Each source sits beside its own median for New Brunswick’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $163K
- Owners
- 655
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $187K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
median sale price
- Average sale
- $230K
- ÷ buyers’ income
- 1.8×
- Buyers
- 55
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $239K
all residential
- New Brunswick’s towns
- $140K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Houses in Saint-Jacques carry assessments 30% under the middle of New Brunswick’s towns
Detached houses account for 85% of the 790 properties on Saint-Jacques’s 2024 roll.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Canadian Housing Statistics Program, table 46-10-0093 (2024): residential properties on the assessment roll, vacant land left out. The ticks are the median of New Brunswick’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
91% of Saint-Jacques’s homes are detached houses, where New Brunswick’s towns have 82%
The 2021 census counted 715 occupied homes in Saint-Jacques. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of New Brunswick’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Jacques | New Brunswick | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 2% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 7% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 4% | 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.
Saint-Jacques against New Brunswick’s towns: 20% under the $187,000 median
The census values of New Brunswick’s towns, 60 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 Saint-Jacques: Saint-Joseph
Next to Saint-Jacques: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jacques | $150K | $163K | 91% | |
| Saint-Joseph | $140K | $165K | 90% | 4.3 |
| Edmundston | $150K | $170K | 65% | 8.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Jacques
How many households in Saint-Jacques are in core housing need?
under 1% of Saint-Jacques’s households, under the 4% of New Brunswick’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Saint-Jacques expensive for New Brunswick?
No: Saint-Jacques’s census median is below the $187,000 of New Brunswick’s towns.
What is the average house price in Saint-Jacques?
The average sale was $230,000 in 2023, and at the median, buyers paid 1.8 times their income.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
No. Canada has no open register of individual sales; Statistics Canada publishes medians and averages by town only.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program. 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).