Photo: Froliking on the Iceshield · CC BY 2.0Homes in Blanc-Sablon are worth 50% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $150,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ. What homes sold for in Blanc-Sablon isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2024 roll at a median $187,300; the roll values them as of July 1, 2022.
What Blanc-Sablon’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $174K
- Owners
- 355
- 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).
A plex town: 18% of the dwellings in Blanc-Sablon sit in buildings of two to five units (Quebec’s towns: 16%)
The roll puts Blanc-Sablon’s dwellings at 66% in single-family houses, 18% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 55 more entries, valued at a median $26,000.
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.
Blanc-Sablon’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, 82% of Blanc-Sablon’s 460 occupied homes were single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Blanc-Sablon | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Blanc-Sablon is 50% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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.
Cheaper next to Blanc-Sablon: Division No. 9, Subdivision C
Next to Blanc-Sablon: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Distances here run 37–110 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Blanc-Sablon.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blanc-Sablon | $150K | $174K | 78% | |
| Division No. 9, Subdivision C | $100K | $112K | 97% | 36.7 |
| St. Anthony | $174K | $178K | 77% | 110.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Blanc-Sablon
Is Blanc-Sablon expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Blanc-Sablon’s is worth less.
How many households in Blanc-Sablon are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 7% in Blanc-Sablon, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).