Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Home values in Barraute run 50% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
That is a median of $150,000 at the 2021 census, set beside $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Barraute. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $193,900, valued as of July 1, 2022.
What Barraute’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $169K
- Owners
- 710
- 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).
Barraute’s plexes have a median roll value of $199,900, 52% under Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Barraute: 53% in single-family houses, 20% in plexes and 6% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 126 chalets, at a median $167,000.
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.
Major repairs needed: 9% of the homes in Barraute, where Quebec’s towns have 6%
At the 2021 census, 68% of Barraute’s 930 occupied homes were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Barraute | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Permits in Barraute ran at 9.5 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Over 2018–2023, 49 homes were permitted in Barraute, close to 8 each year. Single-unit buildings took 46%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2021: 16 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.
Barraute is 50% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 Barraute: Senneterre
Next to Barraute: 2021 census values and the share of owners. No closer places have figures: these lie 29–43 km from Barraute.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barraute | $150K | $169K | 77% | |
| Senneterre | $192K | $210K | 89% | 29.4 |
| Senneterre | $124K | $135K | 59% | 30.7 |
| Amos | $240K | $249K | 59% | 38.6 |
| Val-d'Or | $280K | $302K | 61% | 38.8 |
| Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier | $200K | $204K | 84% | 42.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Barraute
Is Barraute expensive for Quebec?
No: Barraute’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Barraute are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 3% of households in Barraute, where Quebec’s towns sit at 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).