Photo: SDCJ · Public domainJoliette lives in apartments: 52% of its homes, beside 22% for Quebec’s towns
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $250,000; averaged, their homes came to $278,800. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Joliette. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $391,950, at market values of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Joliette
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $279K
- Owners
- 3,920
- 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).
Duplexes to fiveplexes house 36% of Joliette, beside 16% for Quebec’s towns
Joliette’s roll counts its dwellings 36% in plexes, 31% in buildings of six units or more, 29% in single-family houses and 4% in condos.
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.
The homes of Joliette, by period and type
Joliette had 10,570 occupied homes at the 2021 census. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Joliette | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 12% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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 Joliette ran at 15.9 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Joliette issued permits for 1,019 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 170 a year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 256 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Joliette is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 17% under their $300,000 median
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.
Joliette’s neighbours by home value
Next to Joliette: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joliette | $250K | $279K | 37% | |
| Saint-Paul | $260K | $284K | 82% | 3 |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | $300K | $323K | 47% | 3.6 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | $250K | $284K | 69% | 3.9 |
| Crabtree | $250K | $282K | 59% | 6.3 |
| Saint-Thomas | $280K | $290K | 74% | 7.2 |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes | $250K | $264K | 77% | 8.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Joliette
How many households in Joliette are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 9% of Joliette’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Joliette expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Joliette sits below it.
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).