Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Bonaventure are worth 33% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $200,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. What homes sold for in Bonaventure isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. For property tax, the 2024 roll sets the median single-family home at $235,400, on July 1, 2022 market values.
What Bonaventure’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
- $219K
- Owners
- 910
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Bonaventure at $253,100, 39% less than across Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Bonaventure’s dwellings at 60% in single-family houses, 19% in plexes and 7% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 144 more entries, valued at a median $113,800.
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.
31% of Bonaventure’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 1,315 occupied homes in Bonaventure; 72% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Bonaventure | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 1% | 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.
Bonaventure permitted 9.7 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Building permits added 74 homes in Bonaventure between 2018 and 2023: some 12 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 64% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
Most in 2022: 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.
Bonaventure against Quebec’s towns: 33% under the $300,000 median
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 Bonaventure: Saint-Siméon, New Carlisle and Paspébiac
The places around Bonaventure at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonaventure | $200K | $219K | 70% | |
| Saint-Siméon | $184K | $200K | 72% | 8.2 |
| New Carlisle | $150K | $175K | 79% | 11.1 |
| Paspébiac | $174K | $180K | 72% | 16.3 |
| Caplan | $200K | $202K | 71% | 16.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Bonaventure
How many households in Bonaventure are in core housing need?
In Bonaventure, 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Bonaventure expensive for Quebec?
No: Bonaventure’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).