Photo: Miguel Tremblay · CC0Mont-Carmel sits 50% below Quebec’s towns on home values
The census median was $150,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Mont-Carmel. The town’s assessors, on the 2026 roll, put the median house at $163,850 (market of July 1, 2024).
What Mont-Carmel’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. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $157K
- Owners
- 445
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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 median house in Mont-Carmel was built in 1958, against 1981 for Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Mont-Carmel’s dwellings on the roll split 66% in single-family houses, 5% in buildings of six units or more and 4% in plexes. It lists 167 chalets as well, at $176,000 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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 town of houses: 94% of the homes in Mont-Carmel stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Mont-Carmel had 530 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Over half went up before 1961.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Mont-Carmel | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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.
Mont-Carmel is 50% below 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.
Mont-Carmel’s neighbours by home value
Next to Mont-Carmel: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Carmel | $150K | $157K | 84% | |
| Saint-Pacôme | $174K | $192K | 79% | 8.9 |
| Saint-Pascal | $180K | $188K | 69% | 13 |
| Rivière-Ouelle | $170K | $247K | 87% | 13.7 |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière | $200K | $203K | 86% | 14.1 |
| La Pocatière | $180K | $191K | 54% | 15.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mont-Carmel
Is Mont-Carmel expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Mont-Carmel’s is worth less.
How many households in Mont-Carmel are in core housing need?
More than most: 7% of households in Mont-Carmel, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
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).