Photo: Dominic Germain · CC BY-SA 3.0Nicolet sits 33% below Quebec’s towns on home values
The census median was $200,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Nicolet included, so owners’ values are the measure. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $278,700, at July 1, 2023 prices.
What Nicolet’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $229K
- Owners
- 2,360
- 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 Nicolet, plexes are on the roll at a median $280,600, 32% below Quebec’s towns
Nicolet’s roll counts its dwellings 57% in single-family houses, 20% in plexes and 18% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 32 more entries, valued at a median $126,400.
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.
Nicolet’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, 58% of Nicolet’s 3,755 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Nicolet | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Permits in Nicolet ran at 12.7 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Nicolet created 280 homes, about 47 a year. About 36% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2021: 62 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.
Nicolet is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% under their $300,000 median
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 Nicolet: Baie-du-Febvre
Next to Nicolet: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolet | $200K | $229K | 64% | |
| Trois-Rivières | $200K | $227K | 55% | 13.7 |
| Bécancour | $200K | $229K | 75% | 14.4 |
| Baie-du-Febvre | $160K | $177K | 84% | 16 |
| Yamachiche | $200K | $209K | 69% | 19 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Nicolet
How many households in Nicolet are in core housing need?
In Nicolet, 2% 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 Nicolet expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Nicolet sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).