Photo: Félix Mathieu-Bégin · CC BY-SA 4.0Home values in La Sarre run 37% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
At the 2021 census the median home was worth $190,000, where Quebec’s towns sit at $300,000. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. What homes sold for in La Sarre isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $226,400, at market values of July 1, 2024.
What La Sarre’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $204K
- Owners
- 2,180
- 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).
La Sarre’s semi-detached and row houses have a median roll value of $164,600, 49% under Quebec’s towns
The roll puts La Sarre’s dwellings at 54% in single-family houses, 27% in plexes and 16% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
La Sarre’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Of the 3,495 homes people lived in across La Sarre at the 2021 census, 58% were single-detached houses. 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 Sarre | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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.
Building behind Quebec’s towns: 7.3 new homes a year per 1,000 in La Sarre, against 15.1
Building permits added 138 homes in La Sarre between 2018 and 2023: some 23 a year. About 31% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2022: 49 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 Sarre is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 37% under their $300,000 median
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 Sarre: Macamic
The places around La Sarre at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Sarre | $190K | $204K | 63% | |
| Macamic | $180K | $192K | 77% | 15.8 |
| Palmarolle | $200K | $205K | 84% | 16.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in La Sarre
Is La Sarre expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; La Sarre’s is worth less.
How many households in La Sarre are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of La Sarre’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
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).