Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0In Plateau, 66% of households live in an apartment (Quebec’s towns: 22%)
The 2021 census put the median home at $324,000, with an average of $306,940. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Plateau’s homes actually sold for. 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 Plateau one part of it.
What Plateau’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. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $307K
- Owners
- 2,675
- 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
On Québec’s roll, the dwellings sit 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.
Plateau’s homes: when they went up and what they are
People lived in 6,995 homes in Plateau at the 2021 census. At least half predate 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
| Plateau | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 19% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
Québec permitted 16.4 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Québec issued permits for 25,458 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 4,243 a year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 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
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.
Plateau against Quebec’s towns: 8% over 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.
Lower values near Plateau: L'Aéroport and L'Ancienne-Lorette
Next to Plateau: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plateau | $324K | $307K | 38% | |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy | $320K | $326K | 50% | 1.6 |
| Saint-Louis | $400K | $425K | 47% | 2.2 |
| Cité-Universitaire | $376K | $373K | 27% | 2.6 |
| Cap-Rouge | $392K | $449K | 86% | 3.6 |
| L'Aéroport | $286K | $295K | 82% | 4.1 |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | $300K | $327K | 72% | 4.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Plateau
How many households in Plateau are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 5% of Plateau’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Plateau expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Plateau’s is worth more.
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).