Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Homes in Lac-aux-Sables are worth 52% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $145,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. For Lac-aux-Sables there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $225,200; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Lac-aux-Sables
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $193K
- Owners
- 615
- 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).
Lac-aux-Sables’s plexes have a median roll value of $185,900, 55% under Quebec’s towns
On Lac-aux-Sables’s roll, the dwellings sit 49% in single-family houses and 9% in plexes. It lists 469 chalets as well, at $322,100 in the middle.
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.
32% of Lac-aux-Sables’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 745 occupied homes in Lac-aux-Sables; 85% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lac-aux-Sables | 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 | 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.
Lac-aux-Sables permitted 28.5 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Building permits added 126 homes in Lac-aux-Sables between 2018 and 2023: some 21 a year. 100% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2022, with 38 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.
Lac-aux-Sables is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 52% 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.
Home values around Lac-aux-Sables
The places around Lac-aux-Sables at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-aux-Sables | $145K | $193K | 82% | |
| Sainte-Thècle | $140K | $166K | 74% | 10.4 |
| Saint-Ubalde | $150K | $178K | 80% | 17.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lac-aux-Sables
Is Lac-aux-Sables expensive for Quebec?
No: Lac-aux-Sables’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Lac-aux-Sables are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 9% in Lac-aux-Sables, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).