Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Alma are worth 33% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census gives $200,000 as the median value; Quebec’s towns come to $300,000. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Alma. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $244,450, on July 1, 2023 market values.
What Alma’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $222K
- Owners
- 9,140
- 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).
Alma’s plexes have a median roll value of $237,600, 42% under Quebec’s towns
On Alma’s roll, the dwellings sit 57% in single-family houses, 29% in plexes, 11% in buildings of six units or more and 1% in condos. It lists 187 chalets as well, at $205,900 in the middle.
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.
Alma’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Alma had 13,815 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 52% of them single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Alma | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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.
Building behind Quebec’s towns: 7.5 new homes a year per 1,000 in Alma, against 15.1
Some 103 homes a year: 618 in all were permitted in Alma from 2018 to 2023. The mix: 35% in single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2021: 129 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.
Alma is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% under their $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.
Lower values near Alma: Saint-Nazaire, Hébertville-Station and L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur
The places around Alma at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma | $200K | $222K | 66% | |
| Saint-Nazaire | $188K | $200K | 80% | 6.7 |
| Saint-Bruno | $200K | $206K | 73% | 9.2 |
| Saint-Gédéon | $250K | $311K | 87% | 9.8 |
| Hébertville-Station | $174K | $181K | 72% | 12.1 |
| L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur | $166K | $177K | 84% | 15.3 |
| Larouche | $200K | $227K | 83% | 15.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Alma
Is Alma expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Alma sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Alma are in core housing need?
3% of Alma’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.
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).