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Property prices in Havre-Saint-Pierre · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Little is being built in Havre-Saint-Pierre: 6.1 new homes a year per 1,000, against 15.1 for Quebec’s towns

Census values for 2021: a median of $200,000 and an average of $201,600. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Havre-Saint-Pierre’s homes actually sold for. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $234,900; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.

Median home value
$200K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $202K
Property roll value
$235K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
New homes a year
8
permits, 2018–2023
6.1 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
1,075
census 2021
77% of households
What homes are worth

Havre-Saint-Pierre’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.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$202K
Owners
1,075
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$235K

single-family, market at July 1, 2023

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 Havre-Saint-Pierre, semi-detached and row houses are on the roll at a median $208,100, 35% below Quebec’s towns

Havre-Saint-Pierre’s roll counts its dwellings 48% in single-family houses, 18% in plexes and 4% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 299 more entries, valued at a median $88,400.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$236K
Semi-detached and row$208K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$277K
Chalets$88K
Mobile homes$157K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses48%
Plexes18%
Buildings of 6+ units4%
1977
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
4%
of dwellings built since 2016
1,971
dwellings on the roll

Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2025 (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

The homes of Havre-Saint-Pierre, by period and type

Of the 1,410 homes people lived in across Havre-Saint-Pierre at the 2021 census, 70% were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.

When they were built

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

Before 196118%
1961–198034%
1981–200022%
2001–201524%
2016–20211%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses70%
Semi-detached houses10%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex2%
Apartments, under 5 storeys4%
Apartments, 5+ storeys2%
Movable dwellings14%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Havre-Saint-PierreQuebecCanada
Condominiums5%8%8%
Needing major repairs6%6%6%
Too small for the household1%2%3%
Households in core housing need2%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.

New homes

2021 was the year Havre-Saint-Pierre built most: 13 new homes permitted

Some 8 homes a year: 46 in all were permitted in Havre-Saint-Pierre from 2018 to 2023. Most were houses: 86% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023
Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
051015201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Havre-Saint-Pierre6.1
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$829K
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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.

Across Quebec

Havre-Saint-Pierre against Quebec’s towns: 33% 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.

Cheaper next to Havre-Saint-Pierre: Grande-Vallée

Next to Havre-Saint-Pierre: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Havre-Saint-Pierre has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 159 km away.

Grande-ValléeGrande-ValléeHavre-Saint-Pierre
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Havre-Saint-Pierre$200K$202K77%
Grande-Vallée$150K$167K76%158.7

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Havre-Saint-Pierre

How many households in Havre-Saint-Pierre are in core housing need?

About as many as elsewhere: 2% of households in Havre-Saint-Pierre, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.

Is Havre-Saint-Pierre expensive for Quebec?

No: Havre-Saint-Pierre’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.

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).