Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.047% of Fossambault-sur-le-Lac’s homes have been built since 2001, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $340,000, the average one $381,000. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Fossambault-sur-le-Lac included, so owners’ values are the measure. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $432,400, at market values of July 1, 2024.
What Fossambault-sur-le-Lac’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. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $381K
- Owners
- 915
- 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).
Fossambault-sur-le-Lac’s houses are newer than most: the median dates from 2004 (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
On Fossambault-sur-le-Lac’s roll, the dwellings sit 71% in single-family houses and 6% in plexes. There are 195 chalets on it too, with a median of $286,300.
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.
A town of houses: 86% of the homes in Fossambault-sur-le-Lac stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Fossambault-sur-le-Lac had 1,010 occupied homes at the 2021 census.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 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.
32.9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Fossambault-sur-le-Lac: more than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Some 31 homes a year: 186 in all were permitted in Fossambault-sur-le-Lac from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 92% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2021: 43 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 25% on the year before
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Québec 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.
Fossambault-sur-le-Lac is 13% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 Fossambault-sur-le-Lac: Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Val-Bélair and Pont-Rouge
Next to Fossambault-sur-le-Lac: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac | $340K | $381K | 91% | |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier | $300K | $310K | 85% | 4 |
| Shannon | $380K | $385K | 73% | 7.5 |
| Val-Bélair | $290K | $293K | 74% | 14.7 |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier | $348K | $363K | 80% | 14.7 |
| Pont-Rouge | $250K | $268K | 78% | 15.1 |
| Saint-Raymond | $224K | $248K | 80% | 15.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Fossambault-sur-le-Lac
How many households in Fossambault-sur-le-Lac are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): under 1% in Fossambault-sur-le-Lac, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Fossambault-sur-le-Lac expensive for Quebec?
More than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Fossambault-sur-le-Lac sits above it.
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).