Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0The middle home in Lac-Saint-Charles is valued at $274,000
3,580 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Lac-Saint-Charles. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $365,000 (market of July 1, 2023). Behind property-roll values and building permits sits data gathered across the city of Québec, with Lac-Saint-Charles one part of it.
Two ways to price a home in Lac-Saint-Charles
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $279K
- Owners
- 3,580
- 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).
A plex town: 17% of the dwellings in Québec sit in buildings of two to five units (Quebec’s towns: 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. 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.
The homes of Lac-Saint-Charles, by period and type
The 2021 census counted 4,045 occupied homes in Lac-Saint-Charles; 74% of them are single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 2000. 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
| Lac-Saint-Charles | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 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
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.
Most in 2021: 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 25%: 11,737 new homes in the year to August 2026
The monthly permits numbers here cover 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.
Lac-Saint-Charles against Quebec’s towns: 9% 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 Lac-Saint-Charles
The places around Lac-Saint-Charles at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Saint-Charles | $274K | $279K | 89% | |
| Wendake | – | – | 61% | 4 |
| Saint-Émile | $300K | $303K | 81% | 4.4 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | $300K | $316K | 83% | 4.6 |
| Loretteville | $284K | $290K | 60% | 5.3 |
| Val-Bélair | $290K | $293K | 74% | 6.6 |
| Des Châtels | $280K | $301K | 71% | 7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lac-Saint-Charles
How many households in Lac-Saint-Charles are in core housing need?
In Lac-Saint-Charles, 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Lac-Saint-Charles expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Lac-Saint-Charles sits below it.
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).