Photo: busand2003 · CC BY 3.0Homes in L'Islet are worth 44% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $168,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. For L'Islet there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Québec’s 2024 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $187,500, at market values of July 1, 2022.
What L'Islet’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $185K
- Owners
- 1,300
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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 L'Islet at $185,400, 55% less than across Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, L'Islet’s dwellings on the roll split 68% in single-family houses, 16% in plexes and 9% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 96 chalets as well, at $98,550 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
Before 1961: 50% of the homes in L'Islet, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
L'Islet had 1,735 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 75% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| L'Islet | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 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.
L'Islet is 44% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 L'Islet
Next to L'Islet: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Islet | $168K | $185K | 77% | |
| Cap-Saint-Ignace | $200K | $207K | 78% | 11.8 |
| Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | $200K | $226K | 72% | 13.5 |
| Saint-Aubert | $200K | $223K | 82% | 15.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in L'Islet
How many households in L'Islet are in core housing need?
In L'Islet, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is L'Islet expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; L'Islet’s is worth less.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).