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Property prices in Champlain · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

The middle home in Champlain is valued at $250,000

It is the middle of what 680 owner households told the 2021 census. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Champlain. Québec’s 2024 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $269,000, at market values of July 1, 2022.

Median home value
$250K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $303K
Property roll value
$269K
single-family homes, roll 2024
market at July 1, 2022
New homes a year
8
permits, 2018–2023
9 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
680
census 2021
80% of households
What homes are worth

Champlain’s homes, by two sources

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.

Census 2021$250K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$303K
Owners
680
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2024$269K

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 by kind

In Champlain, semi-detached and row houses are on the roll at a median $193,600, 40% below Quebec’s towns

The roll puts Champlain’s dwellings at 76% in single-family houses, 15% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 45 chalets as well, at $169,400 in the middle.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$274K
Semi-detached and row$194K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$310K
Chalets$169K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses76%
Plexes15%
Buildings of 6+ units3%
1975
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
8%
of dwellings built since 2016
976
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

An older stock than most: 39% of Champlain’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)

Champlain had 865 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 83% of them single-detached houses.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 196139%
1961–198019%
1981–200022%
2001–201516%
2016–20215%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses83%
Semi-detached houses3%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex4%
Apartments, under 5 storeys10%
Other attached1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
ChamplainQuebecCanada
Condominiums2%8%8%
Needing major repairs7%6%6%
Too small for the household1%2%3%
Households in core housing needunder 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.

New homes

Champlain permitted 9 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns

Champlain issued permits for 47 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 8 a year. 80% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

The busiest year: 2019, with 9 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
0246810201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Champlain9
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$2.47M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023
The metro area

1,647 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4% on the year before

05001,0001,5002,00020212022202320242025

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. · Monthly permits published for the Trois-Rivières metro area, not by town

Across Quebec

Champlain against Quebec’s towns: 17% under the $300,000 median

510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Champlain: Saint-Maurice, Batiscan and Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan

The places around Champlain at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.

Saint-MauriceBatiscanSainte-Geneviève-de-BatiscanSaint-Pierre-les-BecquetsBécancourSaint-NarcisseSaint-MauriceBatiscanSainte-Geneviève-de-BatiscanSaint-Pierre-les-BecquetsBécancourSaint-NarcisseChamplain
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Champlain$250K$303K80%
Saint-Maurice$200K$215K81%11.6
Batiscan$200K$243K84%11.9
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan$200K$204K83%12.5
Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets$180K$216K83%14.7
Bécancour$200K$229K75%15.5
Saint-Narcisse$174K$186K75%16.1

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Champlain

How many households in Champlain are in core housing need?

under 1% of Champlain’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.

Is Champlain expensive for Quebec?

No: Champlain’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).