Photo: Wilfredor · CC0Québec lives in apartments: 54% of its homes, beside 22% for Quebec’s towns
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $300,000, the average one $326,800. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Québec. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $365,000, valued as of July 1, 2023.
Québec’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $327K
- Owners
- 136,115
- 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).
17% of Québec’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%
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. There are 272 chalets on it too, with a median of $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.
Québec’s homes: when they went up and what they are
At the 2021 census, Québec had 265,715 homes with someone living in them. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Québec | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 18% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
16.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Québec: in step with Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Québec issued permits for 25,458 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 4,243 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 4% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
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
Monthly permits for 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.
Québec against Quebec’s towns: about level with the $300,000 median
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.
Cheaper next to Québec: Saint-Rodrigue, Duberger—Les Saules and Vanier
The places around Québec at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Québec | $300K | $327K | 51% | |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | $300K | $327K | 59% | 1.4 |
| Charlesbourg | $300K | $312K | 62% | 2.7 |
| Saint-Rodrigue | $250K | $273K | 21% | 2.7 |
| Duberger—Les Saules | $264K | $274K | 45% | 2.9 |
| Vanier | $280K | $276K | 27% | 3.5 |
| Lairet | $300K | $304K | 18% | 3.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Québec
How many households in Québec are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 5% in Québec, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Québec expensive for Quebec?
In the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, and so, near enough, does Québec.
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).