Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0In Cité-Universitaire, 82% of households live in an apartment (Quebec’s towns: 22%)
A median of $376,000 and a mean of $372,916: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Cité-Universitaire. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $365,000, on July 1, 2023 market values. Behind property-roll values and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Québec, with Cité-Universitaire one part of it.
Two ways to price a home in Cité-Universitaire
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $373K
- Owners
- 3,050
- 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).
Plexes hold 17% of Québec’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
Québec’s roll counts its dwellings 37% in buildings of six units or more, 34% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 11% in condos. Chalets add 272 more entries, valued at a median $144,000.
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.
More condos than most: 25% of the homes in Cité-Universitaire (Quebec’s towns: 8%)
Cité-Universitaire had 11,340 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 2000. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Cité-Universitaire | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 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.
Permits in Québec ran at 16.4 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Some 4,243 homes a year: 25,458 in all were permitted in Québec from 2018 to 2023. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 25% on the year before
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Québec metro area
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.
Cité-Universitaire is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 25% above 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.
Lower values near Cité-Universitaire: Plateau, Saint-Sacrement and Duberger—Les Saules
Next to Cité-Universitaire: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cité-Universitaire | $376K | $373K | 27% | |
| Sillery | $588K | $664K | 72% | 2.5 |
| Plateau | $324K | $307K | 38% | 2.6 |
| Saint-Louis | $400K | $425K | 47% | 2.7 |
| Saint-Sacrement | $300K | $380K | 34% | 2.8 |
| Duberger—Les Saules | $264K | $274K | 45% | 3.6 |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy | $320K | $326K | 50% | 4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Cité-Universitaire
How many households in Cité-Universitaire are in core housing need?
5% of Cité-Universitaire’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Cité-Universitaire expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Cité-Universitaire ranks among the dearer of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).