Photo: Laval_City_Hall.JPG : Jean-Philippe Boulet derivative work: MTLskyline · CC BY 3.0The property roll puts Laval’s houses 60% above the middle of Quebec’s towns
A median of $400,000 and a mean of $451,600: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Laval.
Two ways to price a home in Laval
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
- $452K
- Owners
- 112,950
- 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).
In Laval, plexes are on the roll at a median $732,900, 78% above Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Laval: 52% in single-family houses, 18% in buildings of six units or more, 17% in plexes and 13% in condos. Chalets add 32 more entries, valued at a median $141,850.
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.
40% of Laval lives in apartments, where Quebec’s towns have 22%
Laval had 169,785 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Laval | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 18% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 6% | 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 Laval ran at 13.9 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Laval created 14,462 homes, about 2,410 a year. Only 9% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns. Figures for monthly permits are published for the Montréal metro area as a whole, not for Laval alone.
A peak in 2021: 2,677 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 19% more
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.
Laval is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% above their $300,000 median
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Laval’s neighbours by home value
The places around Laval at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laval | $400K | $452K | 67% | |
| Laval-des-Rapides | $400K | $423K | 41% | 2.9 |
| Chomedey | $400K | $422K | 48% | 3 |
| Le Boisé Champêtre | $424K | $504K | 64% | 3.4 |
| Pont-Viau | $400K | $410K | 47% | 3.8 |
| Vimont | $432K | $451K | 72% | 4.1 |
| Sainte-Rose | $400K | $454K | 81% | 4.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Laval
How many households in Laval are in core housing need?
6% of Laval’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Laval expensive for Quebec?
Dearer than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Laval to more.
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).