Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0The middle home in Gatineau is valued at $332,000
76,050 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Gatineau. Single-family homes are on the 2024 roll at a median $454,400; the roll values them as of July 1, 2022.
Gatineau’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
- $360K
- Owners
- 76,050
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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 Gatineau, semi-detached and row houses are on the roll at a median $416,100, 30% above Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Gatineau: 49% in single-family houses, 22% in plexes, 20% in buildings of six units or more and 8% in condos.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
Apartments are 37% of Gatineau’s homes, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 126,475 occupied homes in Gatineau. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Gatineau | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 16% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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.
Building ahead of Quebec’s towns: 24 new homes a year per 1,000 in Gatineau, against 15.1
Some 2,799 homes a year: 16,796 in all were permitted in Gatineau from 2018 to 2023. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 4%, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2021: 3,489 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Down 33%: 2,917 new homes in the year to August 2026
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. · Not measured by town: monthly permits (the Ottawa-Gatineau, Québec part metro area)
Gatineau is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 11% above 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 Gatineau: Rivière-Gatineau, La Cité and Centre-Ville
Next to Gatineau: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gatineau | $332K | $360K | 60% | |
| Rivière-Gatineau | $300K | $305K | 52% | 0.6 |
| La Cité | $300K | $306K | 65% | 2.9 |
| New Edinburgh | $870K | $949K | 55% | 3.2 |
| Centre-Ville | $300K | $385K | 19% | 3.8 |
| Lowertown East | $600K | $633K | 15% | 3.9 |
| Mont-Bleu | $300K | $328K | 35% | 3.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Gatineau
How many households in Gatineau are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 6% in Gatineau, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Gatineau expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Gatineau’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).