Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0A home in Frontenac is worth 33% less than the middle of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $200,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Frontenac. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $298,550, at market values of July 1, 2024.
Frontenac’s homes, by two sources
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
- $246K
- Owners
- 665
- 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).
Frontenac on the property roll, kind by kind
The roll puts Frontenac’s dwellings at 71% in single-family houses, 12% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 136 chalets, at a median $411,750.
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.
Single-detached houses are 90% of Frontenac’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 770 occupied homes in Frontenac. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Frontenac | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
Frontenac is 33% below 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 Frontenac: Lac-Mégantic and Nantes
The places around Frontenac at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac | $200K | $246K | 87% | |
| Lac-Mégantic | $180K | $209K | 54% | 4.7 |
| Nantes | $156K | $186K | 81% | 9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Frontenac
Is Frontenac expensive for Quebec?
No: Frontenac’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Frontenac are in core housing need?
In Frontenac, 3% 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.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).