Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Donnacona are worth 23% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $230,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. What homes sold for in Donnacona isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2026 roll, put the median house at $302,350 (market of July 1, 2024).
Two ways to price a home in Donnacona
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $249K
- Owners
- 2,150
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Donnacona at $271,600, 34% less than across Quebec’s towns
On Donnacona’s roll, the dwellings sit 61% in single-family houses, 27% in plexes and 11% 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.
30% of Donnacona’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
3,300 occupied homes stood in Donnacona in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 56% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Donnacona | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 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.
Permits in Donnacona ran at 11.8 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Donnacona issued permits for 264 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 44 a year. About 43% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2018, with 69 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.
Donnacona is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 23% 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 Donnacona: Sainte-Croix and Saint-Basile
The places around Donnacona at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donnacona | $230K | $249K | 65% | |
| Cap-Santé | $250K | $262K | 89% | 5.2 |
| Sainte-Croix | $214K | $245K | 71% | 6.6 |
| Pont-Rouge | $250K | $268K | 78% | 8.9 |
| Neuville | $300K | $354K | 87% | 10.8 |
| Saint-Basile | $200K | $218K | 79% | 11.6 |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly | $300K | $364K | 87% | 12.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Donnacona
Is Donnacona expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Donnacona sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Donnacona are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 3% in Donnacona, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).