Photo: Franky-Doo-Dy · CC BY-SA 3.0The middle home in La Minerve is valued at $278,000
Behind it are the answers of 660 owners at the 2021 census. For La Minerve there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $359,600, valued as of July 1, 2022.
Two ways to price a home in La Minerve
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $336K
- Owners
- 660
- 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).
La Minerve’s roll values, house to plex
By kind of building, La Minerve’s dwellings on the roll split 34% in single-family houses and 4% in plexes. It lists 1,032 chalets as well, at $360,250 in the middle.
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.
96% of La Minerve’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
At the 2021 census, La Minerve had 765 homes with someone living in them. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| La Minerve | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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.
La Minerve permitted 30.6 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Some 20 homes a year: 117 in all were permitted in La Minerve from 2018 to 2023. Most were houses: 94% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 42 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.
La Minerve sits close to the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 La Minerve: Labelle, Nominingue and Rivière-Rouge
Next to La Minerve: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Minerve | $278K | $336K | 86% | |
| Labelle | $230K | $260K | 75% | 15.7 |
| Nominingue | $250K | $310K | 80% | 15.7 |
| Rivière-Rouge | $200K | $230K | 69% | 18.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in La Minerve
How many households in La Minerve are in core housing need?
10% of La Minerve’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is La Minerve expensive for Quebec?
Neither more nor less: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and La Minerve is near 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).