Photo: GuyFromGaspésie2 · CC0Homes in Chandler are worth 50% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $150,000 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. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Chandler the census value is the measure. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $191,500; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Chandler
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $176K
- Owners
- 2,405
- 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).
Chandler’s plexes have a median roll value of $216,100, 48% under Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Chandler’s dwellings at 64% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 11% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 132 chalets as well, at $81,100 in the middle.
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.
More homes in poor repair than most: 9% in Chandler (Quebec’s towns: 6%)
Of the 3,575 homes people lived in across Chandler at the 2021 census, 74% were single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Chandler | 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 | 3% | 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.
Permits in Chandler ran at 5.1 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Building permits added 102 homes in Chandler between 2018 and 2023: some 17 a year. Single-unit buildings took 55% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2021: 51 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.
Chandler is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 50% 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.
Chandler’s neighbours by home value
Next to Chandler: 2021 census values and the share of owners. The nearest places to Chandler with figures are 16–23 km away.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler | $150K | $176K | 67% | |
| Grande-Rivière | $150K | $180K | 64% | 15.7 |
| Port-Daniel--Gascons | $150K | $169K | 74% | 21.4 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé | $150K | $181K | 79% | 23.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Chandler
Is Chandler expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Chandler’s is worth less.
How many households in Chandler are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 3% of households in Chandler, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
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).