Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.069% of Laval-des-Rapides’s homes are apartments, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $400,000 and an average of $422,883. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Laval-des-Rapides the census value is the measure. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $565,000, valued as of July 1, 2023. Laval-des-Rapides doesn’t get its own property-roll values and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Laval.
Two ways to price a home in Laval-des-Rapides
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
- $423K
- Owners
- 7,755
- 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. There are 32 chalets on it too, with a median of $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.
22% of Laval-des-Rapides’s homes are condos, where Quebec’s towns have 8%
People lived in 18,880 homes in Laval-des-Rapides at the 2021 census. Half went up before 1981. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Laval-des-Rapides | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 22% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 7% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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.
Laval permitted 13.9 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Laval issued permits for 14,462 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 2,410 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 9% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns. Laval-des-Rapides shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Montréal metro area.
The busiest year: 2021, with 2,677 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 19%: 31,370 new homes in the year to August 2026
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-des-Rapides is 33% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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.
Home values around Laval-des-Rapides
Next to Laval-des-Rapides: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laval-des-Rapides | $400K | $423K | 41% | |
| Pont-Viau | $400K | $410K | 47% | 2.2 |
| Nouveau-Bordeaux | $564K | $532K | 44% | 2.9 |
| Chomedey | $400K | $422K | 48% | 3.1 |
| Cartierville | $600K | $683K | 37% | 3.4 |
| Sault-au-Récollet | $650K | $678K | 36% | 3.6 |
| Nicolas-Viel | $695K | $672K | 38% | 3.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Laval-des-Rapides
How many households in Laval-des-Rapides are in core housing need?
In Laval-des-Rapides, 9% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: their home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, and nothing suitable nearby costs under 30% of their income.
Is Laval-des-Rapides expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Laval-des-Rapides’s is worth 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).