Photo: Wilfredor · CC0Montcalm lives in apartments: 92% of its homes, beside 22% for Quebec’s towns
The middle home was worth $400,000 at the 2021 census, the average $427,444. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Montcalm. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $365,000; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023. Montcalm doesn’t get its own property-roll values and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Québec.
What Montcalm’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $427K
- Owners
- 3,245
- 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%
The roll puts Québec’s dwellings at 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.
Condominiums are 38% of Montcalm’s homes, against 8% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 7,960 occupied homes in Montcalm. The older half dates from before 1981. 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
| Montcalm | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 38% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 16.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Québec, against 15.1
Building permits added 25,458 homes in Québec between 2018 and 2023: some 4,243 a year. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 4%, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most 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
Measured across 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.
Montcalm is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% above their $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 Montcalm: Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Roch
Next to Montcalm: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montcalm | $400K | $427K | 41% | |
| Saint-Sauveur | $280K | $295K | 23% | 1 |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | $348K | $387K | 26% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Roch | $260K | $277K | 24% | 1.5 |
| Saint-Sacrement | $300K | $380K | 34% | 1.6 |
| Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire | $400K | $448K | 33% | 2 |
| Vanier | $280K | $276K | 27% | 2.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Montcalm
Is Montcalm expensive for Quebec?
Yes: Montcalm’s census median is above the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Montcalm are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Montcalm’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).