Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0Home values in Chapais run 58% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census gives $125,000 as the median value; Quebec’s towns come to $300,000. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Chapais. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $123,400, on July 1, 2023 market values.
What Chapais’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $125K
- Owners
- 495
- 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).
In Chapais, plexes are on the roll at a median $138,800, 66% below Quebec’s towns
Chapais’s roll counts its dwellings 69% in single-family houses, 15% in plexes and 5% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
19% of Chapais’s households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns
650 occupied homes stood in Chapais in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 69% of them. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Chapais | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 19% | 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.
Chapais against Quebec’s towns: 58% under the $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 Chapais: Eeyou Istchee Baie-James
The places around Chapais at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Chapais has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 38–57 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapais | $125K | $125K | 76% | |
| Chibougamau | $200K | $214K | 70% | 38 |
| Eeyou Istchee Baie-James | $100K | $143K | 55% | 57.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Chapais
Is Chapais expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Chapais’s is worth less.
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).