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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainHomes in Cap-Santé are worth a median $250,000
Some 1,330 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Cap-Santé the census value is the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $285,550 (market of July 1, 2022).
Cap-Santé’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $262K
- Owners
- 1,330
- 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).
In Cap-Santé, plexes are on the roll at a median $307,700, 25% below Quebec’s towns
On Cap-Santé’s roll, the dwellings sit 78% in single-family houses, 11% in plexes and 5% in buildings of six units or more. There are 37 chalets on it too, with a median of $235,500.
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.
A town of houses: 86% of the homes in Cap-Santé stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Cap-Santé had 1,510 occupied homes at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Cap-Santé | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 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.
Building ahead of Quebec’s towns: 18.9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Cap-Santé, against 15.1
Some 27 homes a year: 160 in all were permitted in Cap-Santé from 2018 to 2023. Houses dominate the permits, at 58% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
Most in 2022: 45 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.
Cap-Santé is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 17% under their $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 Cap-Santé: Donnacona, Portneuf and Saint-Basile
The places around Cap-Santé at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cap-Santé | $250K | $262K | 89% | |
| Donnacona | $230K | $249K | 65% | 5.2 |
| Portneuf | $200K | $211K | 76% | 7.5 |
| Saint-Basile | $200K | $218K | 79% | 8.1 |
| Sainte-Croix | $214K | $245K | 71% | 8.9 |
| Pont-Rouge | $250K | $268K | 78% | 10.5 |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière | $180K | $190K | 81% | 12.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Cap-Santé
How many households in Cap-Santé are in core housing need?
In Cap-Santé, under 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 Cap-Santé expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Cap-Santé sits below it.
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).