Photo: Michaël Dumais · Public domainOwners in Lac-Bouchette value their homes 58% below the median of Quebec’s towns
At the 2021 census the median home was worth $125,000, where Quebec’s towns sit at $300,000. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Lac-Bouchette’s homes actually sold for. Single-family homes are on the 2024 roll at a median $116,750; the roll values them as of July 1, 2022.
What Lac-Bouchette’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. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $146K
- Owners
- 465
- 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).
Lac-Bouchette’s plexes have a median roll value of $105,200, 75% under Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Lac-Bouchette’s dwellings on the roll split 40% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 638 chalets as well, at $76,400 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.
More need than most: 13% of households in Lac-Bouchette (Quebec’s towns: 3%)
At the 2021 census, 76% of Lac-Bouchette’s 640 occupied homes 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
| Lac-Bouchette | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 13% | 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-Bouchette against Quebec’s towns: 58% under the $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.
Home values around Lac-Bouchette
The places around Lac-Bouchette at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Distances here run 22–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Lac-Bouchette.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Bouchette | $125K | $146K | 73% | |
| Chambord | $200K | $222K | 75% | 22 |
| Desbiens | $146K | $151K | 77% | 26.5 |
| Roberval | $174K | $196K | 68% | 29.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lac-Bouchette
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Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Lac-Bouchette to less.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).