Photo: MatildaMars · CC0New building in Delson runs at 41.3 homes a year per 1,000, beside 15.1 for Quebec’s towns
A median of $352,000 and a mean of $372,400: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. For Delson there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $473,000, valued as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Delson
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $372K
- Owners
- 2,370
- 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).
The roll values semi-detached and row houses in Delson at $439,900, 37% more than across Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Delson’s dwellings at 61% in single-family houses, 29% in buildings of six units or more, 7% in plexes and 3% 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 Delson, by period and type
Delson had 3,475 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 58% of them single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Delson | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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 Delson peaked in 2023: 353 new homes
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Delson created 822 homes, about 137 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 2% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 19% on the year before
Measured across the Montréal metro area: monthly permits
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.
Delson is 17% 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.
Delson’s neighbours by home value
The places around Delson at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delson | $352K | $372K | 68% | |
| Sainte-Catherine | $348K | $362K | 74% | 1.9 |
| Saint-Constant | $400K | $409K | 77% | 2.5 |
| Candiac | $500K | $605K | 80% | 2.9 |
| Saint-Philippe | $424K | $441K | 86% | 6.4 |
| La Prairie | $448K | $479K | 72% | 6.5 |
| Sault-Saint-Louis | $500K | $562K | 44% | 7.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Delson
How many households in Delson are in core housing need?
In Delson, 5% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Delson expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Delson’s is worth more.
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).