Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners in Princeville value their homes 40% below the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $180,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Princeville included, so owners’ values are the measure. Québec’s 2025 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $245,300, at market values of July 1, 2023.
What Princeville’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $194K
- Owners
- 1,795
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Princeville at $248,000, 40% less than across Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Princeville’s dwellings at 63% in single-family houses, 21% in plexes and 14% in buildings of six units or more. There are 50 chalets on it too, with a median of $94,100.
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.
How Princeville’s homes break down, by age and kind
At the 2021 census, 60% of Princeville’s 2,780 occupied homes were single-detached houses. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Princeville | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 14.2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Princeville, against 15.1
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Princeville created 261 homes, about 44 a year. About 27% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2018, with 63 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.
Princeville is 40% 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 Princeville: Plessisville
The places around Princeville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princeville | $180K | $194K | 66% | |
| Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska | $234K | $243K | 82% | 8.4 |
| Plessisville | $160K | $173K | 59% | 10.1 |
| Plessisville | $190K | $216K | 91% | 12.7 |
| Saint-Louis-de-Blandford | $180K | $196K | 92% | 13.8 |
| Victoriaville | $200K | $228K | 59% | 13.8 |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska | $266K | $303K | 92% | 17 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Princeville
Is Princeville expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Princeville sits below it.
How many households in Princeville are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Princeville’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).