Photo: Gaetan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Half the owned homes in La Cité are valued above $300,000
Behind it are the answers of 8,880 owners at the 2021 census. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. What homes sold for in La Cité isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Québec’s 2024 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $454,400, at market values of July 1, 2022. For property-roll values and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Gatineau, La Cité included.
Two ways to price a home in La Cité
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $306K
- Owners
- 8,880
- 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).
Gatineau’s semi-detached and row houses have a median roll value of $416,100, 30% over 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.
More condos than most: 22% of the homes in La Cité (Quebec’s towns: 8%)
La Cité had 13,655 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 38% of them apartments in low-rise buildings. Half or more were standing by 2000. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| La Cité | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 22% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 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.
Permits in Gatineau ran at 24 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Gatineau issued permits for 16,796 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 2,799 a year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2021, with 3,489 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 2,917 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 33% fewer
Measured across the Ottawa-Gatineau, Québec part metro area: monthly permits
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.
La Cité sits close to the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Home values around La Cité
The places around La Cité at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Cité | $300K | $306K | 65% | |
| Rivière-Gatineau | $300K | $305K | 52% | 2.6 |
| Les Rapides | $452K | $463K | 89% | 3.4 |
| Du Moulin | $300K | $308K | 60% | 3.5 |
| Manor Park | $500K | $894K | 53% | 5.3 |
| New Edinburgh | $870K | $949K | 55% | 5.3 |
| Des Vallées | $424K | $449K | 94% | 5.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in La Cité
How many households in La Cité are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 3% of La Cité’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
Is La Cité expensive for Quebec?
In the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, and so, near enough, does La Cité.
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).