Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0Owners in Dolbeau-Mistassini value their homes 47% below the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $160,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. For Dolbeau-Mistassini there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $193,800, valued as of July 1, 2023.
What Dolbeau-Mistassini’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. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $181K
- Owners
- 4,160
- 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini, plexes are on the roll at a median $197,300, 52% below Quebec’s towns
Dolbeau-Mistassini’s roll counts its dwellings 57% in single-family houses, 26% in plexes and 9% in buildings of six units or more. There are 249 chalets on it too, with a median of $209,700.
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.
Dolbeau-Mistassini’s homes: when they went up and what they are
6,260 occupied homes stood in Dolbeau-Mistassini in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 61% of them. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Dolbeau-Mistassini | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 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.
4.8 new homes a year per 1,000 in Dolbeau-Mistassini: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Dolbeau-Mistassini created 179 homes, about 30 a year. 55% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2023: 46 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.
Dolbeau-Mistassini is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 47% under their $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 Dolbeau-Mistassini: Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc and Albanel
Next to Dolbeau-Mistassini: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolbeau-Mistassini | $160K | $181K | 67% | |
| Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc | $140K | $147K | 87% | 10.4 |
| Albanel | $150K | $149K | 88% | 14.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Dolbeau-Mistassini
Is Dolbeau-Mistassini expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Dolbeau-Mistassini’s is worth less.
How many households in Dolbeau-Mistassini are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Dolbeau-Mistassini’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
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).