Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners put the median home in Orsainville at $270,000
That figure comes from 4,620 owner households at the 2021 census. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Orsainville. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $365,000, on July 1, 2023 market values. Nobody publishes property-roll values and building permits for Orsainville alone, so this card uses the figure for the city of Québec.
What Orsainville’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. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $272K
- Owners
- 4,620
- 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
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.
Apartments are 36% of Orsainville’s homes, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
At the 2021 census, Orsainville had 6,790 homes with someone living in them. The older half dates from before 1981. 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
| Orsainville | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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)
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
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. · Monthly permits: the Québec metro area
Orsainville is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 10% under 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 Orsainville: Saint-Rodrigue
Next to Orsainville: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orsainville | $270K | $272K | 67% | |
| Bourg-Royal | $300K | $305K | 72% | 2.5 |
| Charlesbourg | $300K | $312K | 62% | 2.6 |
| Jésuites | $298K | $276K | 57% | 3.3 |
| Saint-Émile | $300K | $303K | 81% | 3.8 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | $300K | $316K | 83% | 4.3 |
| Saint-Rodrigue | $250K | $273K | 21% | 4.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Orsainville
Is Orsainville expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Orsainville sits below it.
How many households in Orsainville are in core housing need?
In Orsainville, 3% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of 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.
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).