Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Chelsea are worth 2 times the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $600,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. What homes sold for in Chelsea isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $682,900, valued as of July 1, 2022.
Chelsea’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $634K
- Owners
- 2,805
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
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 values semi-detached and row houses in Chelsea at $692,400, 116% more than across Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Chelsea’s dwellings at 84% in single-family houses and 10% in plexes. There are 171 chalets on it too, with a median of $378,700.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
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.
A town of houses: 92% of the homes in Chelsea stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Chelsea had 3,040 occupied homes at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Chelsea | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 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.
Building ahead of Quebec’s towns: 44 new homes a year per 1,000 in Chelsea, against 15.1
Chelsea issued permits for 743 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 124 a year. Single-unit buildings took 57% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2020: 213 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 2,917 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 33% fewer
The monthly permits numbers here cover the Ottawa-Gatineau, Québec part metro area
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.
Chelsea is 100% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 Chelsea: Cantley, Hautes-Plaines and Les Rapides
The places around Chelsea at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea | $600K | $634K | 92% | |
| Cantley | $448K | $467K | 93% | 5.2 |
| Hautes-Plaines | $400K | $419K | 68% | 8.5 |
| Les Rapides | $452K | $463K | 89% | 8.7 |
| Mont-Bleu | $300K | $328K | 35% | 10.6 |
| Du Plateau | $400K | $418K | 53% | 11.6 |
| La Cité | $300K | $306K | 65% | 11.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Chelsea
Is Chelsea expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Chelsea ranks among the dearer of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Chelsea are in core housing need?
3% of Chelsea’s households, near 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.
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).