Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0A home in Portneuf is worth 33% less than the middle of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $200,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. What homes sold for in Portneuf isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $246,250; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Portneuf
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $211K
- Owners
- 1,220
- 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).
Portneuf’s plexes have a median roll value of $261,250, 37% under Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Portneuf’s dwellings on the roll split 68% in single-family houses, 20% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 67 chalets, at a median $352,600.
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.
Major repairs needed: 10% of the homes in Portneuf, where Quebec’s towns have 6%
Portneuf had 1,610 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 75% of them single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Portneuf | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 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.
10.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Portneuf: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Some 16 homes a year: 94 in all were permitted in Portneuf from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 85% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2022: 25 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.
Portneuf 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Portneuf: Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière
Next to Portneuf: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portneuf | $200K | $211K | 76% | |
| Saint-Basile | $200K | $218K | 79% | 7.2 |
| Cap-Santé | $250K | $262K | 89% | 7.5 |
| Deschambault-Grondines | $242K | $263K | 73% | 9.7 |
| Donnacona | $230K | $249K | 65% | 12.6 |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières | $200K | $202K | 71% | 13 |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière | $180K | $190K | 81% | 14.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Portneuf
How many households in Portneuf are in core housing need?
under 1% of Portneuf’s households, under the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Portneuf expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Portneuf to 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).