Photo: Iceberg9999 · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Des Châtels are worth a median $280,000
It is the middle of what 4,450 owner households told the 2021 census. For Des Châtels there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $365,000; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023. Nobody publishes property-roll values and building permits for Des Châtels alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Québec.
Des Châtels’s homes, by two sources
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $301K
- Owners
- 4,450
- 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. The roll also counts 272 chalets, 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.
Des Châtels’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Des Châtels had 6,285 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 51% of them single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Des Châtels | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 16.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Québec, against 15.1
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Québec created 25,458 homes, about 4,243 a year. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 4%, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2021, with 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 25%: 11,737 new homes in the year to August 2026
Shared with the rest of the Québec metro area: monthly permits
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.
Des Châtels sits near the middle of Quebec’s towns ($300,000)
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Home values around Des Châtels
Next to Des Châtels: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Des Châtels | $280K | $301K | 71% | |
| Loretteville | $284K | $290K | 60% | 1.7 |
| Wendake | – | – | 61% | 3.1 |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | $300K | $327K | 72% | 4.1 |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | $300K | $327K | 59% | 4.2 |
| Val-Bélair | $290K | $293K | 74% | 4.6 |
| Saint-Émile | $300K | $303K | 81% | 4.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Des Châtels
How many households in Des Châtels are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 1% of households in Des Châtels, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Des Châtels expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Des Châtels sits mid-table among 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).