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Property prices in Girardville · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Home values in Girardville run 67% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns

In figures: $100,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Girardville. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $107,000, valued as of July 1, 2022.

Median home value
$100K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $102K
Property roll value
$107K
single-family homes, roll 2024
market at July 1, 2022
Owner households
385
census 2021
84% of households
What homes are worth

Girardville’s homes, by two sources

Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.

Census 2021$100K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$102K
Owners
385
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2024$107K

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).

The roll by kind

In Girardville, plexes are on the roll at a median $117,800, 71% below Quebec’s towns

Girardville’s roll counts its dwellings 68% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 5% in buildings of six units or more. There are 90 chalets on it too, with a median of $95,650.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$107K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$118K
Chalets$96K
Mobile homes$52K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses68%
Plexes8%
Buildings of 6+ units5%
1973
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
5%
of dwellings built since 2016
599
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

Before 1961: 35% of the homes in Girardville, where Quebec’s towns have 21%

At the 2021 census, 84% of Girardville’s 470 occupied homes were single-detached houses.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 196135%
1961–198039%
1981–200021%
2001–20152%
2016–2021under 1%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses84%
Semi-detached houses2%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex6%
Apartments, under 5 storeys5%
Movable dwellings3%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
GirardvilleQuebecCanada
Condominiums3%8%8%
Needing major repairs6%6%6%
Too small for the householdunder 1%2%3%
Households in core housing need4%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.

Across Quebec

Girardville against Quebec’s towns: 67% under the $300,000 median

The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Home values around Girardville

The places around Girardville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.

AlbanelNormandinAlbanelNormandinGirardville
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Girardville$100K$102K84%
Albanel$150K$149K88%16.7
Normandin$130K$148K77%19

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Girardville

Is Girardville expensive for Quebec?

Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Girardville’s is worth less.

How many households in Girardville are in core housing need?

In Girardville, 4% 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).