Photo: Sylfred1977 · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Mont-Laurier are worth 33% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $200,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Mont-Laurier the census value is the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $270,900 (market of July 1, 2023).
Mont-Laurier’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $221K
- Owners
- 4,130
- 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).
The roll values semi-detached and row houses in Mont-Laurier at $200,550, 37% less than across Quebec’s towns
On Mont-Laurier’s roll, the dwellings sit 55% in single-family houses, 25% in plexes and 13% in buildings of six units or more. There are 397 chalets on it too, with a median of $225,900.
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.
How Mont-Laurier’s homes break down, by age and kind
Mont-Laurier had 6,695 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 61% of them single-detached houses. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Mont-Laurier | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 8% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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: 14.8 new homes a year per 1,000 in Mont-Laurier, against 15.1
Some 93 homes a year: 555 in all were permitted in Mont-Laurier from 2018 to 2023. About 39% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2019, with 134 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Mont-Laurier is 33% 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.
Cheaper next to Mont-Laurier: Lac-des-Écorces and Ferme-Neuve
The places around Mont-Laurier at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Laurier | $200K | $221K | 62% | |
| Lac-des-Écorces | $180K | $207K | 77% | 13.7 |
| Ferme-Neuve | $154K | $184K | 75% | 18.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mont-Laurier
Is Mont-Laurier expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Mont-Laurier sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Mont-Laurier are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 3% of households in Mont-Laurier, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
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).