Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners in Pierreville value their homes 47% below the median of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $160,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Pierreville. The town’s assessors, on the 2026 roll, put the median house at $219,200 (market of July 1, 2024).
Pierreville’s homes, by two sources
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $192K
- Owners
- 695
- 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).
Pierreville’s plexes have a median roll value of $212,500, 49% under Quebec’s towns
On Pierreville’s roll, the dwellings sit 68% in single-family houses, 19% in plexes and 4% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 81 chalets, at a median $129,500.
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.
51% of Pierreville’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 1,055 occupied homes in Pierreville; 77% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Pierreville | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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.
8 new homes a year per 1,000 in Pierreville: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Some 8 homes a year: 45 in all were permitted in Pierreville from 2018 to 2023. Most were houses: 52% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 14 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.
Pierreville is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 47% under their $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.
Pierreville’s neighbours by home value
Next to Pierreville: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierreville | $160K | $192K | 68% | |
| Saint-François-du-Lac | $160K | $194K | 75% | 1.6 |
| Baie-du-Febvre | $160K | $177K | 84% | 8.4 |
| Yamaska | $200K | $220K | 75% | 11.4 |
| Saint-Robert | $200K | $238K | 86% | 16 |
| Saint-Bonaventure | $200K | $216K | 81% | 16.6 |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | $250K | $288K | 85% | 18.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Pierreville
Is Pierreville expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Pierreville to less.
How many households in Pierreville are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Pierreville’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (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).