Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Caplan sits 33% below Quebec’s towns on home values
Owners valued the median home at $200,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Caplan. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $235,400, valued as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Caplan
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $202K
- Owners
- 650
- 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).
Caplan’s plexes have a median roll value of $280,000, 32% under Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Caplan’s dwellings on the roll split 63% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 9% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 46 chalets, at a median $89,000.
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.
Before 1961: 32% of the homes in Caplan, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
920 occupied homes stood in Caplan in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 73% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Caplan | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Caplan is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% 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 Caplan: Saint-Siméon
The places around Caplan at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caplan | $200K | $202K | 71% | |
| Saint-Siméon | $184K | $200K | 72% | 8.1 |
| New Richmond | $190K | $206K | 67% | 14.9 |
| Bonaventure | $200K | $219K | 70% | 16.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Caplan
How many households in Caplan are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 8% in Caplan, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Caplan expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Caplan sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).