Photo: Benjilafouine · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners put the median home in Lac-Simon at $348,000
Some 475 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Lac-Simon the census value is the measure. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $448,350, at July 1, 2023 prices.
Lac-Simon’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $390K
- Owners
- 475
- 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-Simon at $625,100, 51% more than across Quebec’s towns
On Lac-Simon’s roll, the dwellings sit 31% in single-family houses and 4% in plexes. The roll also counts 799 chalets, at a median $429,000.
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.
96% of Lac-Simon’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
Lac-Simon had 555 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half went up before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lac-Simon | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 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.
Permits in Lac-Simon ran at 19.1 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Over 2018–2023, 62 homes were permitted in Lac-Simon, close to 10 each year. Single-unit buildings took 91% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2021: 15 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-Simon against Quebec’s towns: 16% over 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-Simon: Montpellier and Ripon
Next to Lac-Simon: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Simon | $348K | $390K | 85% | |
| Montpellier | $200K | $236K | 82% | 9 |
| Ripon | $250K | $282K | 84% | 14.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lac-Simon
How many households in Lac-Simon are in core housing need?
More than most: 6% of households in Lac-Simon, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Lac-Simon expensive for Quebec?
Yes: Lac-Simon’s census median is above the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).