Photo: Germain Beauchamp · Public domainHomes in Laval-Ouest are worth a median $314,000
Some 3,280 owner households gave their home’s value to the 2021 census. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Laval-Ouest the census value is the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $565,000 (market of July 1, 2023). Behind property-roll values and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Laval, with Laval-Ouest one part of it.
What Laval-Ouest’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. The census asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $333K
- Owners
- 3,280
- 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
By kind of building, Laval’s dwellings on the roll split 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.
An older stock than most: 30% of Laval-Ouest’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
4,215 occupied homes stood in Laval-Ouest in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 68% of them. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Laval-Ouest | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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
Laval issued permits for 14,462 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 2,410 a year. Only 9% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 2,677 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 19% on the year before
Measured across the Montréal metro area: monthly permits
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-Ouest against Quebec’s towns: about level with the $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.
Home values around Laval-Ouest
The places around Laval-Ouest at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laval-Ouest | $314K | $333K | 78% | |
| Deux-Montagnes | $300K | $336K | 71% | 2.3 |
| Saint-Eustache | $348K | $354K | 69% | 3.7 |
| Fabreville | $360K | $394K | 83% | 4.7 |
| Sainte-Dorothée | $500K | $601K | 83% | 4.9 |
| Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac | $344K | $357K | 89% | 5.7 |
| L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève | $548K | $591K | 74% | 5.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Laval-Ouest
How many households in Laval-Ouest are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Laval-Ouest’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
Is Laval-Ouest expensive for Quebec?
About average: Laval-Ouest’s census median is close to 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).