Photo: Edwin Lester Brittain · CC BY-SA 4.0A median $348,000: what owners say homes in Pontiac are worth
It is the middle of what 2,040 owner households told the 2021 census. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Pontiac the census value is the measure. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $428,200; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
Pontiac’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $397K
- Owners
- 2,040
- 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).
In Pontiac, plexes are on the roll at a median $575,050, 39% above Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Pontiac’s dwellings at 75% in single-family houses, 13% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 297 more entries, valued at a median $193,200.
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.
93% of Pontiac’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
The 2021 census counted 2,380 occupied homes in Pontiac. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Pontiac | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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.
Pontiac against Quebec’s towns: 16% over 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.
Pontiac’s neighbours by home value
The places around Pontiac at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontiac | $348K | $397K | 88% | |
| Dunrobin | $800K | $884K | 96% | 7.4 |
| Fitzroy | $500K | $588K | 93% | 11.5 |
| Chelsea | $600K | $634K | 92% | 14 |
| Des Explorateurs | $376K | $386K | 71% | 14.4 |
| Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant | $650K | $671K | 82% | 16.2 |
| Carp | $850K | $870K | 92% | 16.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Pontiac
How many households in Pontiac are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 4% in Pontiac, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Pontiac expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Pontiac’s is worth more.
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).