Photo: Gilbertus · CC BY 3.0Since 2001, Boischatel has built 49% of the homes it has today; Quebec’s towns, 21%
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $352,000, the average one $394,800. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Boischatel. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $484,100, valued as of July 1, 2023.
What Boischatel’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. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $395K
- Owners
- 2,735
- 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).
Built in 2004: the median house in Boischatel, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
By kind of building, Boischatel’s dwellings on the roll split 80% in single-family houses, 10% in condos, 8% in plexes and 2% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 27 chalets as well, at $140,600 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.
How Boischatel’s homes break down, by age and kind
Of the 3,050 homes people lived in across Boischatel at the 2021 census, 78% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Boischatel | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Boischatel permitted 31.4 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Boischatel created 527 homes, about 88 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 88% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%). Boischatel doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Québec metro area.
A peak in 2021: 147 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 25% more
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.
Boischatel is 17% above 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 Boischatel: Chutes-Montmorency, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux and Saint-Michel
The places around Boischatel at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boischatel | $352K | $395K | 90% | |
| Chutes-Montmorency | $280K | $295K | 50% | 3.1 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | $278K | $298K | 87% | 4.5 |
| Saint-Michel | $280K | $300K | 83% | 4.8 |
| L'Ange-Gardien | $290K | $299K | 85% | 5 |
| Vieux-Bourg | $276K | $288K | 52% | 5.3 |
| Sainte-Pétronille | $400K | $452K | 88% | 6.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Boischatel
How many households in Boischatel are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 2% of households in Boischatel, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Boischatel expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Boischatel’s is worth more.
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).