Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Half the owned homes in Lachute are valued above $250,000
Behind it are the answers of 3,330 owners at the 2021 census. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Lachute the census value is the measure. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $344,200, at July 1, 2023 prices.
What Lachute’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
- $265K
- Owners
- 3,330
- 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).
Plexes hold 29% of Lachute’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Lachute: 45% in single-family houses, 29% in plexes and 24% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 52 chalets, at a median $156,650.
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.
Apartments are 34% of Lachute’s homes, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
Lachute had 6,530 occupied homes at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lachute | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 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.
Permits in Lachute ran at 30.5 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Lachute issued permits for 1,167 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 195 a year. 22% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 429 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.
Lachute against Quebec’s towns: 17% 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 Lachute: Brownsburg-Chatham
Next to Lachute: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lachute | $250K | $265K | 51% | |
| Brownsburg-Chatham | $230K | $268K | 80% | 6.4 |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil | $250K | $270K | 78% | 9.8 |
| Gore | $300K | $334K | 89% | 12.2 |
| East Hawkesbury | $300K | $377K | 87% | 16.2 |
| Saint-Placide | $300K | $376K | 76% | 17.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lachute
How many households in Lachute are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Lachute’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Lachute expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Lachute sits below it.
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).