Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Lac-Drolet are worth 58% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $125,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Lac-Drolet. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $207,100, valued as of July 1, 2023.
What Lac-Drolet’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
- $148K
- Owners
- 370
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2023
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Lac-Drolet at $190,650, 54% less than across Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Lac-Drolet’s dwellings on the roll split 63% in single-family houses, 12% in plexes and 7% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 90 chalets as well, at $250,600 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2025 (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.
38% of Lac-Drolet’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 490 occupied homes in Lac-Drolet; 79% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lac-Drolet | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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-Drolet 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.
Lac-Drolet’s neighbours by home value
The places around Lac-Drolet at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Drolet | $125K | $148K | 78% | |
| Saint-Ludger | $125K | $139K | 85% | 11 |
| Nantes | $156K | $186K | 81% | 17.4 |
| Lac-Mégantic | $180K | $209K | 54% | 18.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lac-Drolet
Is Lac-Drolet expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Lac-Drolet sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Lac-Drolet are in core housing need?
More than most: 6% of households in Lac-Drolet, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
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).