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Property prices in Papineauville · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Core housing need reaches 13% of Papineauville’s households, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%

Census values for 2021: a median of $200,000 and an average of $263,000. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Papineauville’s homes actually sold for. On the 2026 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $312,150, valued as of July 1, 2024.

Median home value
$200K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $263K
Property roll value
$312K
single-family homes, roll 2026
market at July 1, 2024
New homes a year
28
permits, 2018–2023
30.8 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
690
census 2021
68% of households
What homes are worth

What Papineauville’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.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$263K
Owners
690
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2026$312K

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 roll by kind

28% of Papineauville’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%

By kind of building, Papineauville’s dwellings on the roll split 63% in single-family houses, 28% in plexes and 6% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 36 more entries, valued at a median $257,000.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$316K
Semi-detached and row$280K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$328K
Chalets$257K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses63%
Plexes28%
Buildings of 6+ units6%
1977
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
13%
of dwellings built since 2016
1,202
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

Papineauville’s homes: when they went up and what they are

Of the 1,020 homes people lived in across Papineauville at the 2021 census, 71% were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 196127%
1961–198034%
1981–200027%
2001–201510%
2016–20213%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses71%
Semi-detached houses8%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex5%
Apartments, under 5 storeys13%
Apartments, 5+ storeys1%
Other attached1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
PapineauvilleQuebecCanada
Condominiums4%8%8%
Needing major repairs8%6%6%
Too small for the household3%2%3%
Households in core housing need13%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.

New homes

Papineauville permitted 30.8 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns

Some 28 homes a year: 166 in all were permitted in Papineauville from 2018 to 2023. The mix: 28% in single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

The busiest year: 2020, with 57 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
0204060201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Papineauville30.8
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$5.77M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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.

Across Quebec

Papineauville is 33% 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.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Home values around Papineauville

Next to Papineauville: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

PlaisanceWendoverSaint-André-AvellinThursoRiponPlaisanceWendoverSaint-André-AvellinThursoRiponPapineauville
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Papineauville$200K$263K68%
Plaisance$226K$246K70%7.9
Wendover$348K$380K77%8.5
Saint-André-Avellin$226K$254K72%11.4
Thurso$200K$219K64%18.2
Ripon$250K$282K84%18.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Papineauville

Is Papineauville expensive for Quebec?

Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Papineauville’s is worth less.

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).