Photo: Cephas · CC BY-SA 4.0The middle home in Saint-Émile is valued at $300,000
That figure comes from 5,265 owner households at the 2021 census. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Saint-Émile. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $365,000, at July 1, 2023 prices. For property-roll values and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Québec, Saint-Émile included.
What Saint-Émile’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $303K
- Owners
- 5,265
- 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%)
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. 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.
Since 2001: 38% of the homes in Saint-Émile, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
At the 2021 census, 56% of Saint-Émile’s 6,480 occupied homes were single-detached houses. 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
| Saint-Émile | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 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.
Permits in Québec ran at 16.4 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Québec created 25,458 homes, about 4,243 a year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak 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
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.
Saint-Émile 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 Saint-Émile: Loretteville, Orsainville and Lac-Saint-Charles
Next to Saint-Émile: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Émile | $300K | $303K | 81% | |
| Wendake | – | – | 61% | 2.2 |
| Loretteville | $284K | $290K | 60% | 3.4 |
| Orsainville | $270K | $272K | 67% | 3.8 |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | $300K | $327K | 59% | 4 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | $300K | $316K | 83% | 4.1 |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | $274K | $279K | 89% | 4.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Émile
How many households in Saint-Émile are in core housing need?
In Saint-Émile, 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 Saint-Émile expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Saint-Émile sits mid-table among Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).