Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0The property roll puts McMasterville’s houses 33% above the middle of Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $348,000, with an average of $356,400. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for McMasterville. New building in McMasterville ran at about 30 homes a year between 2018 and 2023.
Two ways to price a home in McMasterville
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $356K
- Owners
- 1,585
- 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).
A plex town: 34% of the dwellings in McMasterville sit in buildings of two to five units (Quebec’s towns: 16%)
McMasterville’s roll counts its dwellings 51% in single-family houses, 34% in plexes, 10% in buildings of six units or more and 5% in condos.
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.
A younger stock than most: 38% of McMasterville’s homes went up after 2000 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
The 2021 census counted 2,405 occupied homes in McMasterville; 52% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| McMasterville | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 13.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in McMasterville, against 15.1
Very few were houses: 2% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
A peak in 2021: 48 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 19% more
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Montréal metro area
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.
McMasterville against Quebec’s towns: 16% over 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.
McMasterville’s neighbours by home value
Next to McMasterville: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McMasterville | $348K | $356K | 66% | |
| Otterburn Park | $392K | $406K | 86% | 2.8 |
| Beloeil | $388K | $408K | 72% | 3.2 |
| Mont-Saint-Hilaire | $448K | $509K | 81% | 4.1 |
| Saint-Basile-le-Grand | $400K | $412K | 87% | 5.2 |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil | $500K | $527K | 85% | 5.3 |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu | $348K | $370K | 79% | 8.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in McMasterville
How many households in McMasterville are in core housing need?
In McMasterville, 4% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of 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 McMasterville expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; McMasterville’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).