Photo: essede · CC BY-SA 3.0Lac-Etchemin sits 43% below Quebec’s towns on home values
The census median was $170,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021. For Lac-Etchemin there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $232,400; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Lac-Etchemin
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
- $200K
- Owners
- 1,250
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Lac-Etchemin at $244,100, 41% less than across Quebec’s towns
On Lac-Etchemin’s roll, the dwellings sit 71% in single-family houses, 15% in plexes and 9% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 98 more entries, valued at a median $135,200.
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.
Before 1961: 34% of the homes in Lac-Etchemin, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
At the 2021 census, 75% of Lac-Etchemin’s 1,740 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lac-Etchemin | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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.
Permits in Lac-Etchemin ran at 17.5 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Lac-Etchemin created 229 homes, about 38 a year. Single-unit buildings took 66% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2018: 77 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-Etchemin against Quebec’s towns: 43% 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.
Lower values near Lac-Etchemin: Sainte-Justine, Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne and Saint-Léon-de-Standon
The places around Lac-Etchemin at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Etchemin | $170K | $200K | 73% | |
| Sainte-Justine | $149K | $152K | 81% | 11.1 |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne | $150K | $166K | 81% | 13.1 |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon | $100K | $138K | 83% | 13.5 |
| Saint-Benjamin | $141K | $184K | 90% | 18.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lac-Etchemin
Is Lac-Etchemin expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Lac-Etchemin sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Lac-Etchemin are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 3% of households in Lac-Etchemin, where Quebec’s towns sit at 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).