Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.047% of Contrecoeur’s homes have been built since 2001, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $300,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $325,200. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Contrecoeur the census value is the measure. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $441,300; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Contrecoeur
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $325K
- Owners
- 3,115
- 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).
Contrecoeur’s houses are newer than most: the median dates from 2005 (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
Contrecoeur’s roll counts its dwellings 63% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes, 9% in buildings of six units or more and 8% in condos.
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.
The homes of Contrecoeur, by period and type
The 2021 census counted 4,115 occupied homes in Contrecoeur; 50% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Contrecoeur | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Contrecoeur permitted 24.1 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 611 homes were permitted in Contrecoeur, close to 102 each year. Single-unit buildings took 55% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2020: 174 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.
Contrecoeur against Quebec’s towns: about level with 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 Contrecoeur: Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu and Lavaltrie
Next to Contrecoeur: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contrecoeur | $300K | $325K | 76% | |
| Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu | $278K | $299K | 83% | 5.6 |
| Lavaltrie | $280K | $310K | 76% | 5.8 |
| Saint-Ours | $300K | $328K | 84% | 6.4 |
| Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu | $348K | $404K | 89% | 8.7 |
| Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu | $300K | $352K | 81% | 10 |
| Lanoraie | $286K | $334K | 77% | 11.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Contrecoeur
How many households in Contrecoeur are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Contrecoeur’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
Is Contrecoeur expensive for Quebec?
Contrecoeur is close to the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000.
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).