Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Owners in Charette value their homes 41% below the median of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $178,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. What homes sold for in Charette isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $261,800; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Charette
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $190K
- Owners
- 360
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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).
Charette’s plexes have a median roll value of $257,800, 38% under Quebec’s towns
Charette’s roll counts its dwellings 75% in single-family houses, 19% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
An older stock than most: 44% of Charette’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
The 2021 census counted 485 occupied homes in Charette; 85% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Charette | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 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: 23.1 new homes a year per 1,000 in Charette, against 15.1
Over 2018–2023, 64 homes were permitted in Charette, close to 11 each year. 73% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 15 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.
Charette against Quebec’s towns: 41% under the $300,000 median
510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Charette: Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Saint-Barnabé and Saint-Paulin
The places around Charette at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charette | $178K | $190K | 78% | |
| Saint-Élie-de-Caxton | $150K | $194K | 88% | 4.5 |
| Saint-Boniface | $200K | $231K | 83% | 8 |
| Saint-Barnabé | $150K | $173K | 84% | 9.3 |
| Saint-Paulin | $150K | $176K | 75% | 9.3 |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | $200K | $229K | 85% | 10 |
| Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc | $200K | $231K | 92% | 17 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Charette
How many households in Charette are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): under 1% in Charette, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Charette expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Charette’s is worth less.
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).