Photo: Harfang · CC BY 3.0Home values in Nantes run 48% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $156,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Nantes’s homes actually sold for. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $216,800 (market of July 1, 2023).
Nantes’s homes, by two sources
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
- $186K
- Owners
- 485
- 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 Nantes, plexes are on the roll at a median $258,650, 37% below Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Nantes: 73% in single-family houses, 11% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 76 more entries, valued at a median $127,500.
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.
86% of Nantes’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
Nantes had 605 occupied homes at the 2021 census. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Nantes | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 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.
Nantes against Quebec’s towns: 48% under 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.
Lower values near Nantes: Lac-Drolet
The places around Nantes at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes | $156K | $186K | 81% | |
| Lac-Mégantic | $180K | $209K | 54% | 4.5 |
| Frontenac | $200K | $246K | 87% | 9 |
| Lac-Drolet | $125K | $148K | 78% | 17.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Nantes
How many households in Nantes are in core housing need?
Fewer than most: under 1% of households in Nantes, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Nantes expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Nantes sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).