Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0An apartment town: 98% of Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s homes, against 22% across Quebec’s towns
The middle home was worth $348,000 at the 2021 census, the average $387,342. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Saint-Jean-Baptiste. 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 Saint-Jean-Baptiste one part of it.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $387K
- Owners
- 1,505
- 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%
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. There are 272 chalets on it too, with a median of $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.
More condos than most: 25% of the homes in Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Quebec’s towns: 8%)
Saint-Jean-Baptiste had 5,685 occupied homes at the 2021 census. More than half were built before 1961. 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-Jean-Baptiste | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 7% | 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. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 4% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns. Nobody publishes monthly permits for Saint-Jean-Baptiste alone, so this card uses the figure for the Québec metro area.
A peak in 2021: 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 25% more
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-Jean-Baptiste against Quebec’s towns: 16% over 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-Jean-Baptiste: Saint-Roch, Saint-Sauveur and Vieux-Limoilou
The places around Saint-Jean-Baptiste at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | $348K | $387K | 26% | |
| Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire | $400K | $448K | 33% | 0.9 |
| Saint-Roch | $260K | $277K | 24% | 1 |
| Montcalm | $400K | $427K | 41% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Sauveur | $280K | $295K | 23% | 1.5 |
| Vieux-Limoilou | $260K | $303K | 24% | 2.3 |
| Saint-Sacrement | $300K | $380K | 34% | 2.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Jean-Baptiste
How many households in Saint-Jean-Baptiste are in core housing need?
More than most: 7% of households in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Saint-Jean-Baptiste expensive for Quebec?
Yes: Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s census median is above the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).