Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0A home in Cap-Chat is worth 60% less than the middle of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $120,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Cap-Chat the census value is the measure. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $124,100, valued as of July 1, 2022.
What Cap-Chat’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $146K
- Owners
- 935
- 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 median house in Cap-Chat was built in 1955, against 1981 for Quebec’s towns
Cap-Chat’s roll counts its dwellings 65% in single-family houses, 19% in plexes and 2% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 169 chalets as well, at $62,700 in the middle.
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.
Before 1961: 38% of the homes in Cap-Chat, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
1,225 occupied homes stood in Cap-Chat in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 79% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Cap-Chat | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 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.
Cap-Chat is 60% 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 Cap-Chat: Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
The places around Cap-Chat at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. No closer places have figures: these lie 17–77 km from Cap-Chat.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cap-Chat | $120K | $146K | 76% | |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Monts | $150K | $162K | 68% | 16.7 |
| Sainte-Félicité | $130K | $145K | 81% | 52.2 |
| Matane | $160K | $177K | 60% | 66.5 |
| Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis | $100K | $122K | 81% | 77.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Cap-Chat
Is Cap-Chat expensive for Quebec?
No: Cap-Chat’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Cap-Chat are in core housing need?
under 1% of Cap-Chat’s households, under 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 · 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).