Photo: Photographe inconnu - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Rimouski · Public domainHome values in Price run 67% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $100,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. For Price there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2024 roll at a median $90,000; the roll values them as of July 1, 2019.
Two ways to price a home in Price
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $122K
- Owners
- 605
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2019
- 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).
Built in 1947: the median house in Price, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
Price’s roll counts its dwellings 79% in single-family houses, 14% in plexes and 5% in buildings of six units or more.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
66% of Price’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 760 occupied homes in Price; 81% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Price | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 11% | 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.
0.9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Price: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Over 2021–2023, 2 homes were permitted in Price, close to 1 each year. Very few were houses: under 1% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
The busiest year: 2021, with 2 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.
Price against Quebec’s towns: 67% under 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.
Home values around Price
Next to Price: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $100K | $122K | 80% | |
| Mont-Joli | $150K | $169K | 58% | 5.6 |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici | $125K | $146K | 76% | 9.8 |
| Sainte-Luce | $200K | $220K | 80% | 18 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Price
Is Price expensive for Quebec?
No: Price’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Price are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 11% of Price’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
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).